The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.
Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.
There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.
There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.
I'm a gay black guy. If I can't ask questions without caring what people think of me, who can?
A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
I'm terrified to get married. I'm not getting married till my gay friends can.
I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't.
I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.
I am a father, and I know the feel of being a father. Why wouldn't I want my gay friends to also be happy parents?
I think so many doors have been opened for the gay community as far as the dangers and horrors of HIV. There is so much more out-ness now.
A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really.
I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I don't think being gay is a sin. Period.
Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens.
I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.
For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.
While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.
I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.
That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.
