You can't have Rosie on The View and Elton John packing Mom and Pop in at Caesars Palace and gay people all over television, and then have these politicians run out there with a straight face and say that gay and lesbian relationships are a threat to the family. We are winning in the culture - which is why we'll ultimately win the political war.

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

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

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

I'm one of those gay people who's constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to live now and not to be Ennis and Jack [from Brokeback Mountain] or whatever - not that I'd mind being Ennis for half an hour. But it's been so much worse recently. It still is terrible. In Iran, they're hanging gay teenagers. I'm grateful for how far the United States, even with its crazy Christians, has come on a lot of issues. And the fact that I get called a faggot occasionally by a crack addict, while annoying, certainly isn't a lobotomy and prison.

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