I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.
Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.
Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.
When you're a young kid and you're gay, you're out there on your own. And you're trying to figure this thing out. And your parents typically aren't gay.
I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.
Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married.
Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren't allowed to get married in most parts of America. I'd go on a march for gay rights any time.
I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber - as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals - are Christians but we journalists don't identify them by their religion.
Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I'm gay: well, the fact that I'm flamboyantly gay.
I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
If you look at issues like immigration, gay marriage, gun regulation - these are all things that probably wouldn't be a source of much discussion at all in D.C., if they weren't sources of self-perpetuation.
I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.
Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?
Ray: One gay beer for my gay friend, one normal beer for me because I am normal.
You don't need to have big hairy feet to read , why should you be gay to read a gay book?
I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.
