“The governor [Arnold Schwarzenegger] actually spends more time during the week with two gay people – his chief of staff and his personal assistant – than with his wife, Maria Shriver. Her chief of staff, Daniel Zingale, also is gay. A former political director of the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay rights group, Zingale also is a close advisor to the governor.”

“Why are scientists so preoccupied with what causes homosexuality, to the near-total exclusion of the factors that lead to heterosexuality? I don’t object to research into sexual orientation. It is the one-sided obsession that bugs me. The presumption seems to be that straightness is normal and therefore does not need explanation; whereas queerdom is a deviation from the norm and this requires investigation and answers.”

“I suspect what kills Pride parades more than [anything] is the fact that we really don’t need or want them as much as we used to. … We are so woven into the fabric of daily life throughout New England we simply don’t need a parade to advertise our presence. Seeing a same-sex couple walking hand-in-hand in Boston is so commonplace that only tourists seem to notice. You can talk about your life – who you really are – at most large workplaces without fear of raising eyebrows, much less getting fired. You can get married in Massachusetts or get a civil union in Vermont or Connecticut. One by-product, apparently, is that our parades suck. That’s a trade-off I can live with.”