Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

Oh, my god. I'd be a terrible doctor. I don't like to touch other people. There's a lot of gruesome stuff in my line of work to feel or to admit. I'm sure everyone's expecting me to say "proctologist," but actually no, I don't want to be a proctologist. Probably want to be a dentist, because you don't have to touch much of the other person's body, just their face or mouth.

I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

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

There's always something new with sex. We lived in a world without Viagra, now we live in a world with Viagra. We lived in a world without blowjobs and anilingus in the Oval Office, and then it happens and you get to write about it. We live in a world where now the government is screwing with contraception and holding back vaccines that could save 4,000 women's lives a year, and you get to write about that. It's not as much fun as anilingus in the Oval Office, but what are you going to do? If you pay attention, there's always something new, and it's always really invigorating.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.