I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

I don't write about my life in my column.

I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and I think they’re scum—are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, whatever their color…I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.

every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay.