"Many of us in the progressive movement just want to throw up. Democrats put one hand out to ask for money, and with the other they stab you in the back."— Steve Goldstein of the New Jersey LGBT organization Garden State Equality to The Star-Ledger newspaper, Nov. 30. The paper reported that "support for gay marriage in Trenton is draining away like water from a tub as nervous legislators scurry towards safer political ground."
"If you want to have a marriage with some bad-tempered cow from Camden Council officiating, then you must have that, and I think it's nice that you can have it. But I liked being a poof when it was illegal, frankly; it gave me a sense of being outside." — Gay actor Rupert Everett to Britain's The Guardian, Nov. 29.
"This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage." — The Texas Constitution. Texas attorney-general candidate Barbara Ann Radnofsky says the 2005 amendment passed by voters actually bans all marriages in Texas, not just gay ones.
"I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims. But the leaders. ... Why should I take the judgment of a declared celibate about my sexual needs? He's basing his judgment on laws that would fit life in the Bronze Age. So if I'm lost to God, organized religion is to blame." — Gay actor Sir Ian McKellen to the Los Angeles Times, Nov. 14.
"It's ( being a 'Sir' ) actually more of an annoyance, that title. And I don't think I'm a saint. It's all nonsense really, but if you live in a society where there are civilian awards, it seems a little bit churlish to say 'I don't want it.' I'm just trying to think of one advantage and I don't think there is one." — Openly gay actor Sir Ian McKellen to Details magazine, Oct. 29.
"'Going Rogue' is such a postmodern book that treating it as some kind of factual narrative to check ( as I began to ) , or comparing its version of events with her previous versions of the same events ( as I have ) , and comparing all those versions with what we know is empirical reality ( so many lies, so little time ) is just a dizzying task. The lies and truths and half-truths and the facts and non-facts are all blurred together in a pious puree of such ghastly prose that, in the end, the book can only really be read as some kind of chapter in a cheap nineteenth century edition of 'Lives of the Saints.' But as autobiography." — Gay blogger Andrew Sullivan on Nov. 19 after reading Sarah Palin's book.
"When you press people on their opposition to gay marriage and gay rights, very often it reverts to anal sex. They look at gay men and that's all they see. They look at Ellen and they don't know what she does with Portia." — Gay writer Dan Savage to The New York Times, Nov. 14.
"Levi Johnston has chosen to leave certain bits to the imagination ( in Playgirl ) . Booo. Hissssss." — Gay über-blogger Andy Towle ( Towleroad.com ) , Nov. 17.
—Assistance: Bill Kelley
