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I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.

I don't write about my life in my column.

See, I'm a subverter at heart.

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.

A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.

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.

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.

I think the 'South Park' guys are brilliant.

I don't like to think about what school was like for me.