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

the truth is often a mixed message

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

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

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage. But it matters very much to the knuckle-draggers and Christianists and whack jobs in Bush's ever smaller base.

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.

And that really captures the difference for the bullied straight kid versus the bullied gay kid, is that the bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. [...] And I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.