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.

Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need a lawyer or a cop, and not me.

I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun

I think it's going to take three or four generations of gay people being able to get married before it starts feeling less like we're going through these motions, that we're aping a heterosexual institution.

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

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.