Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

Obama is looking good because he kept his nerve and retained his restraint. That's a tough combo: nerve and restraint. It takes a cold-bloodedness to pull this off, and there are times when ice seems to run through the man's veins.

If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.

The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.

I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.

I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.