Boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.

In the gay world, some of the most enriching and incredibly life-affirming and shaping relationships, very often between younger boys and older men, can be hugely positive experiences for those young boys. They can save those young boys from desolation, suicide and drug addiction, all sorts of things, providing they're consensual.

First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever.

I don't believe that sex with 13-year-olds is okay.

We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is regulated in Europe, you know?

All I care about is free speech and free expression; I want people to be able to be, do, and say anything.

I believe in and love the populist, nationalist, antiglobalist rebellion happening all over the West.