In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

Every piece of remotely responsible research that has been done in the last 20 years on this issue has shown there is no difference between children who are raised by same-sex parents and children who are raised by opposite-sex parents. What matters is that children are being raised in a stable, loving environment.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

Early numbers are always wrong.

I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.