Andrew Sullivan

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

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting. ”

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last. ”

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

If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers. ”

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship. ”

I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking. ”

You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true. ”

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. ”

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