'The Christianist right has done more to detach gay people from God's love than any other force I know. Given the hostility, hatred and condescension directed at them, it's a miracle how strong the faith lives of so many gay people are. But then grace is always a miracle. And it has kept many of us within our faiths, even as the leaders of those faiths target, demean and scapegoat us.' — Gay writer Andrew Sullivan on his blog, June 15.
'A very large part of the male population, gay or straight, totally understands the idea of anonymous and no-strings sex. ... The fact that I choose to do that on a warm night in the best cruising ground in London—which happens to be about half a mile from my home—I don't think would be that shocking to that many gay people.' — Gay singer George Michael to the BBC July 29 after being 'caught' on Hampstead Heath at 2:30 a.m. by the tabloid newspaper News of the World.
'I love drag—I think it is so much fun. It is camp and kicky, and anything that can make people laugh and feel good, I like. ... It's a compliment [ when drag queens do you ] . It means you are enough fun and different enough and it gave people something they liked. It means you are worth remembering.' — Actress Debbie Reynolds, 73, talking about watching drag queens do her in Las Vegas, to the Australian gay newspaper Sydney Star Observer, July 13.
'I live at the corner of Faggot and Cocksucker. [ With ] gay pride here in New York, I won't even be able to pick up my phone. That's how loud it is from my apartment. I can just hang out my window and watch it. It'll be packed and really, really loud, and I won't even be able to walk outside my apartment. And then Sunday night around midnight, it'll be like the carnies at a fair, the people who are just aimlessly walking—scary and filthy. Then the trucks come and clean up the street around 3 a.m., so I just won't sleep at all.' — Actress/comedian Amy Sedaris ( Strangers with Candy ) to the Sacramento, Calif., gay newspaper Outword, July 13.
'I've liked Vicodin in the past, but I haven't done Vicodin in a really long time. Someone gave me a Klonopin for the first time, and I took half of that. I'm a halfer. I can't take a whole pill. I like pot. I don't do any other drugs. You know, Xanax if I need to take the edge off the edge. I did Ecstasy once and it was fantastic, but it was so fantastic that I never want to do it again because I don't want to compare it. Nothing's going to top it.' — Actress/comedian Amy Sedaris ( Strangers with Candy ) to the Sacramento, Calif., gay newspaper Outword, July 13.
'We are actually in the process of turning a page in gay and lesbian storytelling with different genres and telling stories we never could tell before. The films mostly just used to be issue-oriented. I think Brokeback Mountain broke down barriers that had existed for a long time. [ W ] e have been unable to tell some stories because of our fear of sexuality and the fear in the business that you couldn't tell a story with a gay hero and have it make money. But we now know, because of Brokeback, this is not the case.' — Gay actor Chad Allen ( Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman ) to InsideSoCal.com, July 11.