"Not only do we have gay characters, but one of the central themes is a very gay conceit, which is your family is not the family you came from. Your family (develops) when you come to a place you always wanted to be and you meet people who are like you, and you create your own family. You notice in the series that we almost never meet anybody's family. Once we met Charlotte's brother. We heard about Miranda's father after he was dead. But we never meet anybody's parents or family. And they really wanted to keep it about the family you create."
Openly lesbian Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon (Miranda) to Towleroad.com, May 26.

"I'm 66. If they had let me get married 10 years ago, I would have been 20 pounds lighter and I wouldn't have needed airbrushing."
Veteran lesbian activist Robin Tyler as she married Diane Olson, granddaughter of former California Gov. Culbert Levy Olson, June 16 in Beverly Hills, to the Los Angeles Times. Tyler and Olson, 54, have been together 15 years.

"Congratulations to all of us: May equality live long and prosper."
George Takei, who played Sulu on the original Star Trek, as he and partner Brad Altman picked up a marriage license June 17 in West Hollywood.

"(We're) going to wait until it's legal everywhere, becauseotherwise, I said to Kelli, we'll be going around touring the country on the marriage tour every state by state. Once it gets to be at the federal level, once every state recognizes the marriages of every other state, I think that'll be the time we would do it."
Rosie O'Donnell on getting married, to the Associated Press, June 5.

"I had a gay kid say to me the other day: 'Men and women on death row can marry people on the outside. They're allowed to get married. And gays want the same rights as people on death row.' I thought that was pretty good thinking. ... It's just an interesting thing that gays don't have the same rights as people on death row."
"A gay woman named Ellen DeGeneres has the most popular talk show in America. She even outstrips Oprah Winfrey. Doesn't this say something? I think people are really kind of conflicted. Sometimes they're sneaky and fuzzy when it comes to homosexuality. They go crazy over one demonstration of it, and then they'll ignore another."
Newspaper columnist Liz Smith in an article published by The Women on the Web, wowowow.com, May 28.

"Listen, Anderson Cooper reports on hard news in places like Karachi. And in Pakistan, they'll kill you if they find out you're gay. So I'm not going to be the one who asks Anderson Cooper if he's gay, OK?"
Comedian Kathy Griffin to the Dallas Voice, June 6.