Andrew Sullivan: belief

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…Putting aside issues of sex, but how do your conversations with your gay friends differ from those with your nongay friends? We are more candid with each other, I think. We’re certainly more candid about affairs of the heart. There’s a frankness and rudeness and sense of humor that is hard to explain outside of its particular context. But I don’t want to give you the impression that my nongay friends are somehow in some boring category; they’re not at all. I’m talking more about my straight peers within my profession rather than my regular nongay friends in real life. Taking a hetero person such as myself, if I want more of this element at the margin that you have with your gay friends, what’s the needed input to produce that?…

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