The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.
I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.
When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.
I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.
To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person.
I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.
The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.
See, I'm a subverter at heart.
A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.
No, I'm not good looking.
Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.