Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes

If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids to Denny's.

Don't mistake being an asshole for being a man.

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.

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

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

It really did take Billy Lucas's suicide to wake me up to, kind of, the damage of the success of the LGBT civil-rights movement - higher-profile LGBT people - has done to LGBT youth who are trapped out there in those shitholes. But I don't think we need Pride. I am still opposed, on philosophical grounds, to the flap of the rainbow windsock and the damage that does to us intellectually.