My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.

The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.

The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.