Out on a limb: selected writing, 1989-2021

Here comes the groom --

The two faces of Bensonhurst --

Gay life, gay death : the siege of a subculture --

Taken unseriously --

Quilt --

The politics of homosexuality --

Alone again, naturally --

When plagues end : notes on the twilight of an epidemic --

My America --

The princess bride --

Unsung heroine --

Going down screaming --

What's so bad about hate? --

The he hormone --

The "invisible man" --

I am bear, hear me roar --

Integration day --

Log cabin Republican --

Life lesson --

Superstar --

Crisis of faith --

Still here, so sorry --

The end of gay culture --

The abolition of torture --

Islamo-bullies get a free ride from the West --

Gay cowboys embraced by redneck country --

When not seeing is believing --

The Reagan of the Left? --

A married man --

Goodbye to all that : why Obama matters --

How did I get Iraq wrong? --

Phobia at the gates --

Why I blog --

Republican Taliban declare jihad on Obama --

Mad, maddening America, the wisest of all --

Obama's race dream is swiftly shackled --

Leaving the Right --

Obama, trimmer --

Dear Ta-Nehisi --

Why continue to build the settlements? --

Christianity in crisis --

The first elite conservative to say enough --

Thatcher, liberator --

Surprised by grief --

Rush Limbaugh knows nothing about Christianity --

What is the meaning of Pope Francis? --

Democracies end when they are too democratic --

I used to be a human being --

America and the abyss --

America wasn't built for humans --

Kaepernick's message is getting lost : along with the facts on race and police violence --

We all live on campus now --

The poison we pick --

Just say yes to drugs --

America's new religions --

The nature of sex --

Why Joe Biden might be the best bet to beat Trump --

A plague is an apocalypse, but it can bring a new world --

The unbearable whiteness of the classics --

Two sexes, infinite genders .