"It was really exciting but it was a f**k-up too. You can think you have the capacity to deal with it (fame) but nothing prepares you for it. I really thought I didn't care, that I could be famous and not be altered by it -- but you are. You get caught up in it and some of it is real but for the most part, it's superficial and very fragile or temporary."
Out singer k.d. lang to Britain's Guardian newspaper, July 16.

"I think Pride is less politicized sometimes than it used to be and that's probably a good sign because I think it's truly a celebration. It was before as well but in older Prides there was a little more of a political slant. There was a lot of activism to be done and there still is, but I think because we made a lot of headway we're able to relax a bit."
Singer Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls to Seattle Gay News, June 27.

"My girlfriend gave me a Tiffany diamond ring and proposed. I cried. We want to make sure to get married before the ballots in November but we both have hectic traveling schedules. It's more whirlwind than romance but we're hoping for the first weekend in September."
Comedian Suzanne Westenhoefer to Seattle Gay News, July 4.

"I just think John Edwards is an incredibly creepy individual and the very definition of faggy."
Pundit Ann Coulter in a July 23 appearance on KOA radio in Denver.

"Once again, Ann Coulter has made a cynical and desperate bid for attention by using a vulgar, dehumanizing anti-gay slur. More and more, fair-minded Americans believe that there's no place for this kind of bigotry and Coulter's shrinking media platform only confirms how out of step she is with the rest of the country. GLAAD urges the media to shine a spotlight on Ann Coulter's history of using anti-gay slurs and the media outlets that support this language by continuing to provide her with a platform."
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation President Neil Giuliano, July 25.

"The Scriptures were written in patriarchal times, times of slavery, times of polygamy. And when you go for a literalist reading you run into trouble. Women wear hats in church, for example, because St. Paul said you should keep your head covered. And your mouth shut, by the way."
Openly gay and non celibate New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson to The Times of London, July 27.

"The pull of precedent is powerful but scarcely all-powerful when a shift of personnel or perspective breaks the spell, allowing the forces of change to exert their counter pull. The road from Bowers v. Hardwick, the 1986 decision that dismissed a claim of gay rights as 'at best, facetious,' to Lawrence v. Texas, which 17 years later located the privacy rights of gay men and lesbians at the heart of constitutional due process, was paved, I have no doubt, by the justices' experience of knowing gay men and women in their personal and professional lives."
Retiring New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse writing in the July 13 edition of the paper.