“People in America and England would like to think racism is over, sexism is over, and homophobia is over, but it’s not. My coming out will show that gay people don’t all look like Jack from Will & Grace. Some of us are big, athletic men, and that should be OK.”

“How much would you bet that Reverend Ted Haggard falls off the wagon in the very near future? I’m serious. I know he just got a big check to shut up and leave town, but you know what he likes to spend his money on! Tick-tock, gentlemen.”

“I live in a rural area of Colorado. We have farmers, horses – and families that I meet at town meetings and at the feed store. In the last five years, people have seen the show, subscribed to Showtime and come up to me, standing tall, and said, ‘I have a lesbian sister – no one talks about it but I feel good telling you.’ They love to mention – with pride – that I am in a show called “The L Word” and they are much more knowledgeable about bisexual and transgender people too. If it is happening in the microcosm of a small town in Colorado, it’s happening across the country and around the world.”

Assistance: Bill Kelley