'It's a debate about whether you think gay people are part of the human condition or just a random fetish. [ Pro-same-sex-marriage courts ] are only reaffirming the natural progression of the human condition. I don't understand why there's always a fight [ from conservatives ] . They always lose, they will continue to lose, so why bother?' — Host Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's The Daily Show arguing with Republican activist Bill Bennett, the former Secretary of Education and former federal drug czar, June 6.
'Republicans want to make an issue of Nancy Pelosi in the congressional races this fall: Would you want a San Francisco woman to be Speaker of the House? Will the podium be repainted in lavender stripes with a disco ball overhead? Will she be borne into the chamber by male dancers with glistening torsos and wearing pink tutus? After all, in the unique worldview of old elephants, San Francisco is a code word for g-a-y, and after assembling a record of government lies, incompetence and disaster, the party in power hopes that the fear of g-a-y-s will pull it through in November.' — Radio personality and author Garrison Keillor writing at Salon.com, June 7.
'One of the dangers of Civil Partnerships which I have long warned about is the pressure that is going to be put on gays to 'normalise' and become monogamous. Monogamy is held up as an ideal and anything else is a lesser thing which can be tolerated ( just ) but is really letting the side down now that we've got pseudo-marriage and can be just like the hetties.' — John Hein, editor of ScotsGay magazine, in the May issue.
'It's kind of like people saw a snippet of your summer vacation three years ago. They saw your home videos, and they're still talking about it. For you, you've moved on, you have new projects, but your sort of vacation is still being played worldwide. It's very interesting when I travel, especially in the gay community. I speak French, Spanish, Chinese—languages I didn't know I spoke, because it's been dubbed and sold worldwide. For me, it was almost four years ago we taped it. It's a strange, strange beast. Very strange. Yeah.' — Wes Culwell, winner of the 2003 reality TV series Boy Meets Boy, when asked by this column what life is like three years after 15 minutes of fame, June 4.
'I start my master's in the fall, in film production and directing, at Chapman University [ in Orange County, Calif. ] . My other passion is travel, so I've been doing freelance travel writing since the show ended. That was my transition from Boy Meets Boy.'—Wes Culwell, of the TV series Boy Meets Boy.