“[Mary] Cheney’s no crusader; she has little interest in becoming the poster mom for gay parenthood. But whether she intends it or not, her pregnancy will, I think, turn out to be a watershed in public understanding and acceptance of the phenomenon. This is the Ellen DeGeneres moment of national politics.”

“I grew up going to church, but I was raised by my uncle who passed away with AIDS a couple of years ago. He was my mother’s best friend. And my mother’s cousin. He brought me to school every day. He helped me buy my prom dress. He made my clothes with my mother. He was like my nanny. He was my favorite person in the world. And you know, I never really mixed Christianity with how I felt [about him]. I am about faith and spirituality more so than religion. Doing right by others and not judging.”

“[They] wanted me to play this role and my agents and managers turned it down and said, ‘I don’t think he wants to wear a dress.’ So they called back and they said, ‘Would he play the Nazi?’ And they called me and they said, ‘Guess what, we got the role of the Nazi.’ And I said, ‘I don’t want the Nazi, I want the guy in the dress.’ And they said, ‘Really?’ And I said, ‘Yes.’ And my agent’s gay. I said to my agent, ‘C’mon, man.’ … He said, ‘I thought it would bother you.’ I said: ‘No, that’s the gag. The gag is people would never expect me to come out in this and I can have a blast with this role. … [It’s] a natural progression: cars, women, gay man.”