The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage. But it matters very much to the knuckle-draggers and Christianists and whack jobs in Bush's ever smaller base.

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.

I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.