“The ‘activists’ at the Human Rights Campaign apparently consider it their sworn duty to protect closeted Hill staffers who work for anti-gay members of Congress, but it is the antithesis of journalism to hide such hypocrisy when the facts can be clearly ascertained. It is not the job of the gay press – and ought not be the job of HRC – to protect the identity of semi-closeted congressional aides who have important questions to answer about why they have not acted to protect their fellow gay citizens.”

“A little denial, a little dysfunction and a little self-delusion are the secret ingredients of all successful long-term relationships.”

“A movement tends to become more rigid in its dogma than anything it might be struggling against … a sense of, it’s got to be this or that where you don’t deviate from the party line. There’s something perverse in that and I hate to be co-opted by any movement, and I don’t care what it is.”