Look, kiddo, you get one life, one chance at happiness. If it gives you a spiritual semi to fantasize about a God who created you gay but forbids you to act on your emotional and sexual attraction to men, knock your damn self out. But you can have a boyfriend and Jesus, too. You just have to do what people have been doing since the first terrified idiot invented the first religion: improvise.
Dan Savage on traveling to Paris to meet one's Internet romance, his support for Obama despite the latter's lack of support for gay rights and gay marriage, the behavior of "squirters," and the infamous Fort Worth police raid on the Rainbow Lounge--on the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, no less.