We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who are adults can't really lay their hands on us unless they want to be gay-bashers and go to jail. They abuse us from afar and in the abstract, they abuse us with checkbooks and ballots, but their kids go to school on Monday morning. And there's a gay kid. And they feel they have license to beat that gay kid up in a way that I don't think they did when I was in school. I think it's gotten worse.

But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.

Every American may have equal access to ice cream, but there's no guarantee that the outcome of eating ice cream will be equal.

You can’t pray away the gay, but you can torture a conflicted closet case to death.

A lot of people think that telling people you're gay is something someone might say just to get attention.

Valentine's Day is much more of a holy day of obligation for a guy in a relationship with a woman, because a woman has certain emotional expectations. Even if she doesn't value Valentine's Day, or views it as a corporate exercise, she still often wants her boyfriend or husband to go through the motions, just in case she values it.

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.