“I’m very excited about being able to capitalize on what I feel was the emerging anger and frustration that many of us have felt for a very long time. The national (LGBT) organizations specifically weren’t addressing how frustrated our community is with the compromises, excuses and delays.”

“We’re clearly not high on the president’s agenda, but I don’t know that we necessarily should be, considering the huge economic problems, financial problems he’s had to confront. But we deserve to be on the agenda somewhere and he did make promises to the community, and I think we have been more than patient.”

“I grew up the youngest of nine in a very Catholic family, attending Catholic schools and never missing Sunday mass. I had a great upbringing in a church that didn’t preach hatred against gay people. But the Catholic Church has changed dramatically and is one of the worst abusers in their bigotry and discrimination towards gay people. I don’t belong to the church anymore – not because of who I am, but because of who they are. I don’t feel guilty. I feel right. I know that God is on my side and on the side of all people, no matter who they are.”

“In the good old days, gays would have wild, wanton sex upon first meeting and if the connection grew into some kind of relationship, that was probably OK. But new school gays (excluding the Manhunt ones) want to get to know each other first and then get sexual. They want to be like straight people, who for years wined and dined each other and actually conversed in depth before sexplay became a huge factor. Today’s gays actually date! But ironically, now that the gays have caught up with the getting-to-know-you routine, the straights want to be like old-school gays and have sex first!”