The greatest love story is the story we, as gay men struggle with the most. It’s the one where we fall back in love with ourselves.

In the beginning, like most gay men, I was a hopeless romantic. My desire for love was incurable, slightly insatiable, and a little bit terrible.

Why it is not okay to give these people the same freedom and rights the society gives to straight people?

To be a gay man is to conquer a series of battles with the world but the greatest one we wage is a fight to love ourselves.

Michael: Made a big statement by going from Mike to Michael when he came out. Incidentally, so did every other Mike.

No one is perfect, but a community full of people who have faced so much discrimination throughout their lives should be leading the charge against the vicious cycle of bullying. We should appreciate one another for what we have in common and spend less time pointing out each others’ flaws.

What kind of community can you build when you only notice or pay attention to half of it?

I would like to say that this stuff doesn’t bother me anymore but it does. I once punched someone in the face because I thought he said, “You’re retarded for being gay.”

For a community YAAAASSSSing our asses off at the #feminism shown by powerful women in Hollywood, there are way too many gay men struggling to actually respect women in our day-to-day lives.

You try having a meaningful conversation with the guy handstand twerking on the wall and see how far that gets.