An illustration is a visual editorial - its just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.

One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

You don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.

Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself.

Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.

While the word bisexual was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.