Thursday quotables...

"I had been in a relationship and a very intense one. And it broke up after quite a number of years. And it broke up abruptly – didn't break up from me. I was cast aside. And it was just, just at the advent of AIDS. And I found out he had been sleeping with a lot of people. And thank God I'm healthy. Because I didn't know and it had been going on for a while. So when we broke up, there the world of AIDS is spread out before me, and I thought ‘I can't do this. I don't want to be selfish, but I care too much about my health'. And the person I loved more than myself had been cheating on me and lying to me. So if that person is doing it, what about total strangers? So I just got used to being alone, very used to it."
- Tim Gunn, in an interview posted Thursday on AfterElton.com

"What he did, it's hypocritical, but it's not an abuse of his office in the sense that he was taking money for corrupt votes. I think people should resign when they have clearly done the job in a way that is dishonest. It's one thing to say that someone can't be trusted to vote without being corrupt, it's another to say that he can't be trusted to go to the bathroom by himself....This is the hypocrisy -- it's to deny legal equality to gay people, but then to engage in gay behavior."
- Openly gay Rep. Barney Frank to AP on Sen. Larry Craig's arrest

"My coming out process was a difficult one. There were moments when I was deeply depressed and suicidal. I can say to...kids, 'You know, I thought my life was over, and now I'm married. I do what I love for a living. I feel great about myself.' I'm living this happily ever after that I didn't think was possible."
- Darren Hayes, discussing his involvement in The Trevor Project in the current issue of People Magazine.