“I’m striving to be an example of normalcy. Because I’m noticed as an actor, people are aware of what’s happening in my life. … I’m a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality and I’m proud of how the nation is steering toward that. Then you can look around and say, ‘I really deeply feel like I’m in love with this person, there are people who feel the same thing, and those models are normal.’ The ‘normal’ couples were sort of in the shadows for the past 15 or 20 years because you sort of needed other people to come forward and speak out.”

“Police chiefs shouldn’t get involved in everyone else’s business when it comes to their personal life. It’s inappropriate.”

“The fundamental-right-to-marry part of the holding (in the California marriage case) was extremely significant, but the court’s holding that sexual orientation is a suspect classification was stunning – completely unprecedented. I think it will forever change the legal landscape for LGBT people in the country; it’s going to have a huge impact on courts in other states and, ultimately, on the federal courts. We are now living in a different legal world because of what the court did.”

“We’ve ridded our state laws of the last vestige of discrimination against same-sex couples, and we once again lead the way for equality for all people.”