I wasted so much time, not realizing that those things I hated most about myself were what others loved, and even desired...

The goal of advocating for greater diversity and inclusion is not the ironing out of our differences, but the delighting in them.

We are all complex mixtures of privilege and adversity. By acknowledging our accidental advantages, we can better empathize with...

Life's richness resides beyond the limits of rightness and wrongness.

In a society steeped in straight supremacy, all of us make homophobic choices from time to time. Even gay people...

There's no better expression of gay pride than living your best life.

I wasted so many years hating the very parts of me that others were trying to love. If we want to experience the richness of life...

To allow others to define us is to participate in our own oppression.

Telling someone how they should protest is not that different from telling them why they should be oppressed.

There is no theory that supersedes lived experience.

You can't heal what you don't love.

It's no use trying to hide from life: there's no solace in slack senses.

Empathy requires that we meet each other where we actually are, instead of flipping on life’s light switches.

Optimism lies at the intersection of honesty and hope.

Gay men have long known what it has meant to die alone. Suffering in silence, cast out of our communities, left to the mercy of...

If we're really going to love each other, we're also going to have to love each other's liberation.

Create space.

One thing is clear, now more than ever: if each of us took just a little less, we would all have a whole lot more.

Let's stay home, so we can share the love, but not the virus.

Even with all the knowledge that we have amassed over the years, there's no greater wisdom than kindness.