Sullivan's latest incarnation is as a blogger. His blog, The Daily Dish, launched in 2000 on his website, www.andrewsullivan.com, quickly became one of the most popular political blogs on the web. He posts copies of his articles, as well as his observations on a variety of subjects, from the war in Iran to political torture to homosexuality, and engages in exchanges with readers of a wide range of viewpoints. Because of his willingness to admit mistakes and misjudgments, as well as his passionate commitment to ideals of justice, Sullivan is at his most appealing as a blogger. The Daily Dish justifies his assertion that "blogging is the first journalistic model that actually harnesses rather than merely exploits the true democratic nature of the web."

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As a public intellectual and journalist, Sullivan is also a popular lecturer, speaking extensively on college campuses, as well as making frequent appearances on the television and radio talk show circuit. Sullivan continues to write and speak on a wide range of issues, including international affairs, religion, faith, cultural issues, and domestic politics.

In 2007, Sullivan not only accepted the editorship of the Atlantic Monthly, but he married his partner of three years, Aaron Tone, a health-club worker and actor. The couple were married in Provincetown, Massachusetts on August 27 in a ceremony attended largely by family members.

The Gay Left refers to a cluster of positions on the political spectrum that has existed within the lesbian and gay rights movement at least since the Stonewall riots.

The gay and lesbian press is of prime importance in sustaining a frequently embattled minority and has been crucial in the development of a national mass movement for gay rights.

Libertarians are not necessarily advocates of gay and lesbian rights, but they certainly want the state out of a person's bedroom and they question any governmental regulation of marriage.

First used by homophobes and then by glbtq activists, outing is the public revelation of a person's sexuality without the consent of that person.

Political scientists have generated insights important to the study of sexuality through research into glbtq participation in formal politics, studies of sexuality as a category of power, and reconceptualizations of the relationship between sexuality and politics.

Historically, the Roman Catholic Church may be the institution most responsible for the suffering of individuals involved in same-sex sexual relationships.

Lesbian and gay couples have been fighting for the freedom to marry since the dawn of the modern glbtq struggle for equality; despite some success abroad, progress toward same-sex marriage in the United States has been slow.

Michelangelo Signorile is a prolific, and often provocative, writer and activist whose books and articles, radio show, newspaper columns, and website champion the cause of glbtq rights.

Activist Urvashi Vaid has devoted her energies to trying to create a queer liberation movement that would have as its core the liberation of all people.