A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

I am tired of fighting state by state, county by county, city by city, for fractions of equality. I am tired of compromises and I am tired of the strategy that divides us from each other. It is time for us to unite across state boundaries in a truly nationwide movement to win full, actual equality, which can only come from the federal government. That's not my opinion. That's a fact.

To all my friends in Los Angeles: the Sultan of Brunei, owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel, has signed legislation calling for gay people to be stoned to death.

When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.

The sense of urgency has almost completely vanished.

The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.

I am not proud to be gay any more than I am proud to be right handed or to breathe oxygen.