Andrew Sullivan Quotes

From the moment she danced with John Travolta, she became an honorary American.

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 was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, ‘Then there’s no hope for me, Mum.’

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 reactionaryl.

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.

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don’t know what effect it has until you hear it.