“I’m gay. I’m super gay. And I guess that makes Anderson Cooper gay, too.”

“I love drag – I think it is so much fun. It is camp and kicky, and anything that can make people laugh and feel good, I like. … It’s a compliment [when drag queens do you]. It means you are enough fun and different enough and it gave people something they liked. It means you are worth remembering.”

“[T]hroughout the 1990s, the gay establishment fought marriage rights passionately and treated marriage advocates as cranks. HRC did all it could to prevent this issue from dominating the discourse. They did the polling, like all principled Democrats, and wanted to play to their strengths. No gay group agreed to take the first real marriage suit in Hawaii. It took a straight guy from the ACLU to handle it. The Human Rights Campaign’s leadership refused to speak of the matter for years, and only included the m-word in their literature in the last few years. Major Democratic donors also refused – and Bill Clinton talked them out of it, when necessary.”

“Slowly over time our gay audience grew to be really, really big. And in times when we’re not getting much radio play or getting our work out there, the queer part of our audience is still really loyal and just really sticks by us.”