Enjoy your relationship with your boyfriend and don't worry about the people or situations you dream about. Once you wake up, they're over; let them go.

To stop challenging someone from using anti-gay language simply because they persist in using anti-gay language strikes me as a defeatist approach.

Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients.

Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers.

"Not being virulently and overtly racist against black people" and "treating gay people like human beings" are necessary conditions of greatness.

If you don't like potlucks, the solution to your problem is "don't go to potlucks," not "insist other people don't have them."

Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment.