“The forces of evil last year spent over $250 million literally pounding into the heads of Americans that we [gays] are bad people not worthy of breathing the same air, walking the same earth, and raising children and teaching, and serving as firefighters and serving our country. It’s a David and Goliath fight and there’s no question that we’re David. We’re not going to win this on money, we’re going to win this on merit.”

“Creating a network specifically for the LGBT community is something we’ve wanted to do for a long, long time, and it’s an idea we feel is overdue. Despite our nation’s progress on civil rights and the growing visibility of gay people in business, society and even in television programming – what has been missing is a full-time home for this important and influential audience on television.”

“It [having sexual experiences with a female friend in my 20s] was lovely, I loved it, and while there’s part of me that deeply wishes I was hardcore homosexual, unfortunately I feel I am deep down heterosexual. I really think [gay experimentation is] a rite of passage, and I highly recommend it to anybody who’s pre-life-long-commitment. Wouldn’t this planet be a different place if all fraternities and macho communities were required to experiment with their sexuality? I think it would be really great; it should be like required reading.”

“I go there [Provincetown] and do everything that no one would think I would ever do. I go swimming every day. I ride my bicycle. I get a sun tan. I go to the dunes. It’s probably the closest John Waters could ever get to being spiritual.”