“No American film before has portrayed love between two men as something this pure and sacred. As such, it has the potential to change the national conversation and to challenge people’s ideas about the value and validity of same-sex relationships. In the meantime, it’s already upended decades of Hollywood conventional wisdom. … The kissing and the sex scenes are fierce and full-blooded.”

“There’s something I feel that the gay community affords women that straight guys don’t, which is you can be 50 and a gay guy will go, ‘You’re so beautiful, you’re so sexy,’ and they mean it! They’re not just trying to sleep with you. They appreciate your femininity.”

“The biggest challenges from within the community are unsafe sex and stupidity such as this crystal meth epidemic. I know that there are gay people who say that external homophobia causes this addiction, but I don’t buy it. Lesbians face the same homophobia and we don’t see large numbers of lesbians hooked on crystal. There is a romance with self-destruction in our community with things like barebacking, crystal and the down-low closet cases.”

“Texas, I thank you, and my wife thanks you. You have strengthened our marriage, providing us with a bulwark against the onslaught of homosexuals in love. Was there ever a more insidious threat to holy matrimony than the unholy alliance between two men or two women? The mere thought is enough to send you scurrying to the nearest Bible, hoping, of course, that you do not come across Romans 14:13 – ‘Let us therefore no longer pass judgment on one another, but resolve instead never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of another.’”