Quotes About Progress

I think any person who is starting out in a creative endeavor is not going to be good at it right out of the gate.

I think it's always important to get off to a good start early, and especially with a younger team that hasn't been together that long, you want to get out of the gates hot and strong.

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

Maybe I've limited my opportunities by being so open about my sexuality, but my thinking is that, if I come out of the gates this way, then it's not really going to be a big deal in a couple of years.

You've got to do a lot of research. That's the biggest thing: I try to gather as much information as I can to maximize myself. Because if you're just standing still, you're going to be a dinosaur and everyone else will go around you. That's like my biggest fear.

And I'd like to believe that's true, you know, kind of showing gay people in this kind of light and - where it's not about that, it's just about the characters for the first time, like those shows were.

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.

The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

It's not the '90s anymore. I think the gay community is a lot more accepted these days.

For a long time, gay men fought to be seen as different, doing our own thing: This is our lives; this is what we do. Accept it. There's a conservatism that has come into the gay community: 'We're just like you, just like everyone else.'

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

I think gay marriage should be the national law.

I believe in gay marriage.

Isn't that sort of what happened with gay marriage? Right before gay marriage was legalized, everybody was just losing their minds and, like, the worst possible things were happening, and it was just all like it couldn't get any worse, and then it suddenly got a lot better.

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.

Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

It shouldn't be an issue that we have a black president. Gay marriage shouldn't be an issue. And women being funny shouldn't be an issue.

By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.