When I was a freshman in college, I went to a broadcast class by mistake. The first day, the instructor said, "Television anchors sound like they could be from everywhere and nowhere." From that point on, every time I was near an anchor, when no one was around, they would say something and I would say it right after them. It was this effort to get rid of my accent.

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.

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.

The internet is ruthless. And people are very, very happy to let you know when they don't like something.

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.