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“The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.”
“Men were never expected to be monogamous.”
“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 don't like to think about what school was like for me.”
“I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.”
“A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.”
“How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?”
“See, I'm a subverter at heart.”
“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.”
“So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“No, I'm not good looking.”
“There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.”
“I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.”
“The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.”