But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.
I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.
I don't like to think about what school was like for me.
Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.
A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.
The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.
I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.
It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.
To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay.
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.
I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.
