"As a community, we have to support only candidates who are 100 percent for equality ... and this includes support for marriage equality and for coverage for transition-related health care for transgender people.As a community, we must help to advance those candidates who support us all the way, and refuse to give to those candidates who do not. We must elect legislators, governors and other officials who will fully support our equality once they are in office." — Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors writing at lgbtpov.com, Dec. 5.
"Most of us who went into acting, especially those of us who started in the theater, we didn't do it so we could go on talk shows, we didn't do it so we could have cameramen hiding behind trees outside our home to take pictures of us. We did it because we wanted to act. So it took me a while to get used to what I felt I could talk about and I would leak out a little bit at a time—whatever the subject—my dogs or my family and ultimately talking about Brian. But it's funny, I did The View some time this past year and we were talking about the whole issue of same-sex marriage. I talked about—I was very open—how Brian and I had gotten married in California while it was legal. And there was this huge sort of ( buzz ) in the media and once again apparently I had come out. This was after the Tony Awards. ... Anytime you meet someone who didn't know you were gay, you come out again. It's not a one-time thing." — Actor David Hyde Pierce ( Niles on Frasier ) to the Palm Springs gay magazine The BottomLine, Nov. 20.
"Promises made were not honored. The LGBT community and all fair-minded New Yorkers have been betrayed. I am enraged, deeply disappointed and profoundly saddened by the vote today." — Gay state Sen. Tom Duane, D-Manhattan, after the New York Senate voted down a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, Dec. 2.
"It's been brought to my attention that this is a political act, even though that's not what it feels like to me—it just feels like personal exposure and it's uncomfortable. But my understanding is that so much research has been done that says that if anybody knows someone who's gay or lesbian, then when they are addressing gay or lesbian issues, political issues, that affect their rights, they are less likely to vote against them, to take away their rights. So ... if I can be that lesbian you know now, 'OK, well, if I vote this way, then that actually might affect this person I know, that Meredith.'" — Actress Meredith Baxter ( Birney ) from the TV shows Family and Family Ties, to the TV show Today, Dec. 2.
"Oh my God, Meredith Baxter! She comes out at 62! She's become a character from the very kind of Lifetime movie she stars in!" — The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, Dec. 3.
"Being lectured about what constitutes a traditional marriage by a Mormon is a bit like being scolded for loitering by a crack whore." — America's Best Christian, Mrs. Betty Bowers, Nov. 22. bettybowers.com
"She's very boring to me—very boring and, to me, kind of a dangerous person. I mean, she's dangerous. She's so confused. And anyone like that in government is a real problem." — Martha Stewart on Sarah Palin to CNN, Nov. 18.
"Growing up in Wasilla ... I haven't ever seen a gay guy in Wasilla, I don't think. I mean, I've seen gay guys but, you know, once I started doing all these tours and everything ... I just, you know, they're people too. It doesn't matter to me. More fans. It's great." — Levi Johnston, the father of Sarah Palin's grandchild, on CNN, Dec. 7.
—Assistance: Bill Kelley
