For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a….

In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an ins….

Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his fath….

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities..

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started..

Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment, ….

I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival; in c….

The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans..

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect..

To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by ….

I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Rep….

...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel..

The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics..

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all….

When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary..

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family..

Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown..

My father has been a rock for me every since..

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writi….

The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts i….

It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in Americ….