I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
It's also one thing to see a celebrity or some kind of character on a TV show being gay. It's a totally… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
What's great about it is that you see, the great struggle for gay people is that the politics is just not going… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Some of this is unavailable to the male-female union: there is more likely to be greater understanding of the need for extramarital… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
