“Dave [Furnish] and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that’s great. I’ve got to use that power to try and do what I can … to try to make the situations in Russia and Poland [better]. I’m off to Poland in two weeks to say something there because the situation is not good. If I’m on the board of Amnesty International I can’t just sit back and say nothing. … I’m going to fight for them, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can’t just sit back; it’s not in my nature any more. I’m nearly 60 years old, after all. I can’t sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won’t.”

“[Traditional Values Coalition chair Lou] Sheldon disclosed that he and ‘a lot’ of others knew about [disgraced Christian right leader the Rev. Ted] Haggard’s homosexuality ‘for awhile … but we weren’t sure just how to deal with it.’ Months before a male prostitute publicly revealed Haggard’s secret relationship with him, and the reverend’s drug use as well, ‘Ted and I had a discussion,’ explained Sheldon, who said Haggard gave him a telltale signal then: ‘He said homosexuality is genetic. I said, no it isn’t. But I just knew he was covering up. They need to say that.’”