'$160 million to the Department of Defense for developing a device that can jam gaydar. Now I don't know if this is anti-gay or pro-gay or if such a device would even work. But I do know this: Jamming gaydar is not a federal responsibility. That's something that's best left to state and local governments.'— John McCain talking about pork-barrel spending on TV's Saturday Night Live, May 17.
'You know, I'm wishing everyone good luck with their ( same-sex ) marriages and I hope that California's economy is booming because everyone is going to come here and get married.' — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger addressing an Environmental Defense Fund event in San Francisco, May 20.
'Who in the hideous McGreevey battle are we supposed to root for? He, who seized on wifey as a beard to further his political cause, banging her occasionally to either procreate or to get closer to the man in the three-way? Or she, who aligned herself to a rising star to live a pampered life in the spotlight, then claimed complete ignorance when she finally got the memo the entire world had already digested? I say they should both go to hell!' — Gay Village Voice columnist Michael Musto on his blog, May 6.
'Not only do we have gay characters, but one of the central themes is a very gay conceit, which is your family is not the family you came from. Your family ( develops ) when you come to a place you always wanted to be and you meet people who are like you, and you create your own family. You notice in the series that we almost never meet anybody's family. Once we met Charlotte's brother. We heard about Miranda's father after he was dead. But we never meet anybody's parents or family. And they really wanted to keep it about the family you create.' — Openly lesbian Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon ( Miranda ) to Towleroad.com, May 26.
'I think that to get married to her ( girlfriend Christine Marinoni ) would be a little act of rebellion. It's like if you've never had the vote and then you get it you're going to run out there and vote. ... If it becomes legal ( in New York ) I think we would.' — Cynthia Nixon ( Miranda ) of Sex and the City fame to London's Daily Mirror, May 12.
'A lot of people ask me if they feel that I'm playing a gay man in New York, and if I am, I am having the most fabulous time as a gay man in New York. I don't personally think that, but I think it's a fun thought. I was very happy to be on the cover of The Advocate. I feel like I have arrived in some ways. But there has been a tremendous amount of support from the gay community, and I'm grateful for it.' — Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall ( Samantha ) to Towleroad.com, May 26.
'They let me play straight people and they let me play gay people. They let me play men and women and anything I want to play. So I'm really lucky in that respect because a lot of times if gay people come out they're just stuck playing a certain kind of role for the rest of their life.' — Comic/singer/actress Lea DeLaria to the Kansas gay magazine Liberty Press, April issue.
'The episode contained several scenes of the gay couple with their baby as well as the presenter's congratulations and acknowledgement of them as a family unit in a way which normalises their gay lifestyle and unconventional family setup. This is in breach of the Free-to-Air TV Programme Code which disallows programmes that promote, justify or glamourise gay lifestyles.' — Singapore's Media Development Authority in an April 24 decision fining Channel 5 $11,000 for an episode of 'Find and Design.'
—Assistance: Bill Kelley
