“You better show up on my tour because if I don’t have gay men out front, I don’t have a good show. This is my First Annual Farewell Tour. I got so jealous of Cher with all her farewell tours.”

“If George W. Bush gets one more Supreme Court appointment, then a very important decision, the Lawrence decision, which says it was unconstitutional to prosecute two consenting men having sex in their bedroom – that would be overturned. John Roberts would overturn that. You have Bush talking about how Scalia – virulent homophobe – is such a good model for him.”

“Abortion is not a gay issue in practice or in principle. In practice, gay couples are the least likely in the land to produce an unwanted pregnancy. Procreation for gay couples typically involves months of planning and thousands of dollars in investment, requiring the use of sophisticated reproductive technology or the cooperation of a surrogate parent. ‘Oops’ babies are simply not a phenomenon of gay life. Gays thus have less practical need for the option of abortion than do heterosexuals. Yes, a gay woman could become pregnant through rape or through heterosexual sex. She might then want an abortion. But this no more makes abortion a ‘gay’ issue than the fact that gay people die in plane crashes makes federal aviation safety standards a gay issue.”