“In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).”

“Gay marriage should be legalized in america because gay men are the only men who want to be married.”

“Gay people should be allowed to get married. Just because somebody's gay doesn't mean he shouldn't suffer like the rest of us”

“Maybe YOU should suck my fuckin' dick. Then we'll see who's GAY.”

“My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had long hair and spoke American. A lot of Americans are gay people, aren’t they? I know they didn’t invent gayness, because they say that was the Greeks. But they helped bring it back into fashion. Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: it disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth century. Anyway, I didn’t know anything about gays, so I just presumed they were all unhappy and wanted to kill themselves.”

“My problem wasn’t that he was a vamp, or that he was gay. I didn’t like him because he was a politician.”