“Ever since I met Del 55 years ago, I could never imagine a day would come when she wouldn’t be by my side. I also never imagined there would be a day that we would actually be able to get married. I am devastated, but I take some solace in knowing we were able to enjoy the ultimate rite of love and commitment before she passed.”
Phyllis Lyon (right) in a statement on the death of her wife, Del Martin, 87, on Aug. 27. Martin and Lyon were a pioneering couple in fighting for equal rights for gay people and plaintiffs in the lawsuit seeking to have gay marriage legalized in California. The couple was married June 16 in San Francisco. (San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 27)
“Sen. McCain showed courage by bucking his own party’s leadership and the president — twice voting against the [marriage] amendment. He gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor, calling the amendment ‘antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans.’”
Log Cabin Republican President Patrick Sammon on the group’s endorsement this week of GOP presidential nominee John McCain. (Washington Blade, Sept. 2)
“Try ‘never.’ Even my girlfriends don’t believe I’m gay until we go to bed. I’m sure I’d do much better in L.A., because there are a lot more skinny femmes out there, but — I have less competition in New York.”
Fashion model Jessica Clark discussing how many people don’t believe she’s gay. Clark is in a relationship with Lacey Stone, a New York City professional trainer. (Afterellen.com, Aug. 31)
“Inmates can marry non-inmates; there is no requirements based on gender, as long as they’re outside the prison wall.”
Michele Kane, spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, on plans being made to allow gay inmates to marry after a state Supreme Court ruling in May legalizing gay marriage. (Contra Costa Times, Aug. 28)
“They’re the ones that made an issue of her family. Apparently she’s a great favorite with the conservative social movement. They have said that it’s liberalism and liberals who have undermined families — same-sex marriage has been a problem, they don’t want gay people to adopt ... This helps undercut those arguments.”
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who is gay, on Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s vice president pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. News broke this week that Palin’s unmarried 17-year old daughter is pregnant. (Associated Press, Sept. 2).
“Nobody can quite believe that John McCain picked her. … This has been greeted with such shock — and with every salacious detail about stuff that wasn’t vetted coming to the floor seemingly with each hour of the news cycle — it is becoming less likely by the hour that Palin will still be John McCain’s nominee even by the end of the week.”
MSNBC political commentator Rachel Maddow to Think Progress on the possibility of Palin being pulled as McCain’s vice presidential nominee. Maddow, a lesbian, is slated to host her own MSNBC show beginning Sept. 8. (Towleroad.com, Sept. 3)
“It’s simply un-American not to be tolerant of different lifestyles. If you wanna live in a single-minded, religious-based country you’re in the wrong place.”
Actress Fran Drescher, who hosted a fundraiser in California this week to help defeat Proposition 8 that would ban same-sex marriage. (Queerty.com, Sept. 3)
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