“I’ll rashly predict that the big Hollywood question posed on the front page of the Los Angeles Times after those stunning weekend grosses – ‘Can Brokeback Mountain Move the Heartland?’ – will be answered with a resounding yes. All the signs of a runaway phenomenon are present, from an instant parody on ‘Saturday Night Live’ to the report that a multiplex in Plano, Tex., sold more advance tickets for the so-called ‘gay cowboy picture’ than for King Kong.”

“This landmark measure ends the situation where same-sex relationships were invisible in the eyes of the law, denied any recognition of their commitment. It gives gay and lesbian couples who register their relationship the same safeguards over inheritance, insurance and employment and pension benefits as married couples. No longer will same-sex couples who have decided to share their lives fear they will be denied a say over the partner’s medical treatment or find themselves denied a home if their partner dies.”

“All those femmes want to turn us butches into hausfraus. It’s what you bitches all want. [B]utches are all pussy-whipped.”