Articles by Andrew Solomon:

This fresh social justice is infusing the very air, and I am breathing it as though it were a new oxygen.

Choice strengthens families no matter what choice they make.

Polite curiosity about one’s children is nothing new. But when you’re gay parents, you must prepare to be interrogated.

Prodigiousness looks from a distance like silver, but it comes with banks of clouds; genius can be as bewildering and hazardous as a disability.

Men who have gotten away with rape seldom retreat in shame or repentance; they often play out their ghoulish exuberance by claiming their reproductive successes.

While I was growing up and the racism of our society was beginning to break down, I observed with interest the improvements in the lives of people who seemed very different ...

I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.

To many gays, marriage is the last frontier of discrimination. But Obama’s election is a reassuring sign that we, too, shall overcome someday soon.

My partner John and I tied the knot on June 30th last year. John had wanted to get married for some time, and we could have done so in Massachusetts, but gay marriage has ...

I was not the one who wanted to get married. John Habich, my partner since the summer of 2001, had brought up a commitment ceremony from time to time, but without legal ...