More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself; in fact, confused.

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.