“The way my dad puts it, I am his point person for the campaign. I can’t imagine doing this for anybody but my father.”
Lesbian Mary Cheney, on her decision to resign from the board of the Republican Unity Coalition, a gay-straight alliance organization, to assist in the re-election of her father, Vice President Dick Cheney (New York Times, June 23)

“The gays have won. The problem is no one will admit it. The biggest and latest news is that Canada is poised to legalize same-sex marriage. But the signs of the gay victory have been all around for us for years.”
Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg, writing one week before the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark sodomy ruling in Lawrence v. Texas (Washington Times, June 20)

“You might remember me as Peter when we left Yale.”
A transgendered woman, introducing herself to President Bush at a Yale class reunion hosted by the White House (Washington Times, June 18)

“Now you’ve come back as yourself.”
President Bush, responding as he grabbed the hand of a transgendered alum attending his Yale class reunion at the White House (Washington Times, June 18)

“They should get a room. That scenario is out of the 1950s. … People can’t have sex in public, on the beach or in the dunes, no matter how duplicitous or tortured their private lives are. Why don’t closeted lesbians come to the beach to have sex in the dark so their husbands won’t know?”
Stephen Gaines, gay author of “Philistines at the Hedgerow,” a book about life in the Hamptons resort in New York, on the arrest of gay men for having sex in beach dunes there (New York Post, June 19)

“People who haven’t had much positive to say about marriage are suddenly enthusiastic as long as you put the words ‘same sex’ in front of it.”
David Blankenhorn, director of the Institute for American Values, which has organized cultural leaders from across the political spectrum to discuss the institution of marriage (New York Times, June 21)

“I can’t answer that question because it’s a legal question.”
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, on whether he believes states in this country should recognize same-sex marriages obtained in Canada (NBC’s “Meet the Press,” June 22)

“Less than two weeks after Bravo announced that American TV’s first gay reality series, ‘Boy Meets Boy,’ would arrive on cable this summer, CBS jumped the gun, staging the first live gay network reality show in prime time. They called it ‘The Tony Awards.’”
Columnist and theater critic Frank Rich (New York Times, June 21)

“According to USA Today, the producers of the Tony awards received several complaints after the two male songwriters of ‘Hairspray’ kissed each other on stage. The producers were shocked about the complaints and said, ‘We had no idea straight people watch the Tony’s.’ “
Talk-show host Conan O’Brien (NBC’s “Late Night,” June 17)

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