“I was 30 (when I came out). I had a nervous breakdown; my parents disowned me for a while; I wasn’t home; I lost all my businesspeople who I worked with for 20 years in politics. It was a brutal coming-out. It wasn’t one of those, ‘Oh, my God, what a pleasant surprise!’ (Then) one day I was at a cocktail party and someone who I had helped become powerful politically was there. He didn’t know I was behind him. And I heard him say, ‘David Mixner is finished. He’s washed up. He’s a faggot.’ And that’s all it took. I got angry instead of being a victim and I said, ‘I’ll show you, you fucker.’ And the one thing I knew was that a politician would sell their mother into slavery for money and so that’s when we started the PAC (Municipal Elections Committee of Los Angeles). And I was right.”

“His (Obama’s) not being for it will give people an excuse to not vote for it. ... At this point, the president’s refusal to call for repeal (of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) this year is a problem. ... I’m frustrated. I’m disappointed with the administration, in part.”

“Many psychologists, many psychiatrists have demonstrated that there is no relationship between celibacy and pedophilia but many others have demonstrated, I was told recently, that there is a relationship between homosexuality and pedophilia. That is true. I have the documents of the psychologists. That is the problem. ... This pathology is one that touches all categories of people, and priests to a lesser degree in percentage terms.”