For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.

What's great about it is that you see, the great struggle for gay people is that the politics is just not going to work for us.

The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

The Tea Party we were told is only about economics; not true. It was always about economics and social issues. They just hid the social issues and now we just see who they really are.

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

I believe that there are moments in sex that are so awesome that they actually reflect God.