“President Obama has said he is opposed to discriminatory ballot measures. It’s time for him to do something to stop them. The president can do something today to prevent future ballot measures designed to take away LGBT rights by asking the federal court to rule that Proposition 8 and similar measures violate the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. ... If politicians want our support, then they must speak out and act when the rights of any minority are threatened. Urge President Obama to have a brief filed in the federal Prop. 8 court challenge, arguing that no minority should ever have their rights taken away at the ballot box. http://www.eqca.org/enough.”

“DNC/HRC fusion robs the (gay) community of any actual representation of us, and should remind us that any civil rights movement that puts its trust in any political party loses both its integrity and its success. We have to do this ourselves, from the ground up, in our living rooms and churches, synagogues and mosques, workplaces and family get-togethers. We need to change the leadership of HRC (Human Rights Campaign) to end their role as the Democratic party’s chief enablers of substantive inaction. And we need to remain focused not on the nastiness of our opponents, but on our own positive arguments for change. We must not take the Christianist bait. We’re winning because we have the better argument. So keep making the argument, and stop looking to others to save us.”

“(I knew Ellen was the one) when I first laid eyes on her. But it took me three years to actually tell her how I felt about her because I was on Ally McBeal at the time and wasn’t living as an openly gay person. I was closeted and very, very afraid that if I talked about being gay it would be the end of my career. So I wasn’t about to date the most famous lesbian in the world.”

“People who say I hate gays and lesbians are, in a polite way, ignorant. I think they don’t see that just because someone doesn’t agree with redefining marriage that they hate you – I’ve never said that I hated gays. I have friends who are gay. I have hairdressers who are gay. I live in California – that’s the most liberal state there is. I am not afraid of gays. It’s just a personal opinion. They have an opinion; I have my own opinion. Why is my opinion not valid?”