'We argue about immigration but we don't try to solve the immigration problem. It's an argument that is all about people's passions instead of trying to figure it out. We argue about gay marriage. In the meantime the planet is ... potentially being destroyed. We've got a war that is bankrupting us. And we're going to argue about gay marriage? I mean, that doesn't make any sense.' — Presidential candidate Barack Obama speaking in Medford, Ore., March 22.
'I now think it's time for the politicians to catch up to the public. The notion that you lock people up for smoking marijuana is pretty silly. I'm going to call it the 'Make Room for Serious Criminals' bill.' — Gay U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., announcing he will introduce a bill to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, according to Politico.com, March 22.
'I would look for love all the time and I made a decision, 'I'm not going to look for love anymore,' and when I made that decision, love walked through my front door and found me [ in the person of David Furnish in 1993 ] . He's incredibly intelligent. He's not afraid to be honest. He had his own car, his own place. This was new for me. I mean, this is Elton who took hostages and took people's lives and completely just said, 'Right, you're putting your life on hold. You come around the world with me.' Which of course always ended in tears.' — Elton John to CBS News, Feb. 25.
'I'm in a fantastic relationship. It's been about four years. I'm in love with [ Christine Marinoni ] because she's her. If she were a man, would I be in love with her? I don't know.' — Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon ( Miranda ) at a press event for the upcoming Sex and the City movie, according to New York's Daily News, March 6.
'I don't think my generation is better or had it better. The one thing you'll never see again—and I'm not so sure it's bad you missed it—was the sexual revolution. You can't imagine what it was like to go home and have sex with someone different every day. ... People really did! In Provincetown there was a bar called Piggies, totally mixed, gay and straight, but it was outside of town and everyone had to walk home and every person would just have sex in the graveyard along the way. I mean, those days will never happen again. Going to places like Hellfire in New York City, you look back and it's so amazing, and that certainly did lead to terrible things like AIDS—and AIDS ruined everything for the rest of our lives. It ruined people taking chances. That's over. You missed that.' — Gay filmmaker John Waters to New York magazine, March 24.
'I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual. There may be a few people on the extreme if it's a bell curve who really truly are gay or really truly are straight.' — Rubyfruit Jungle author Rita Mae Brown to Time magazine, March 18.
—Assistance: Bill Kelley
