“Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is execrable — a catalog of homosexual stereotypes, played to a throbbing, techno-disco beat, that also systematically denies its gay stars their complexity and their sexuality. From first scene to last, they trill and fuss, displaying their talents at traditionally effeminate domestic tasks. The straight guy, meanwhile, stands back, endures some innocuous flirting and emerges as the ultimate hetero stud. Talk about reaffirming heterosexual primacy: the Fab 5 are the very literal fairy godmothers who help straight dudes hook up, and who then return to their own beds alone.”

“Less than equal is less than adequate. To create another institution [such as civil unions] just contributes to the fact that we would tell those members of the gay and lesbian community that they are not entirely part of our society. Why wouldn’t they be part of marriage?”

“Chip and I laid a big kiss on each other at the very end of the race that will never be shown to family television audiences.”