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In Indiana, gays and lesbians can be fired from their jobs with impunity, and in Arkansas, it's the same thing. We need those protective laws to truly have an equal society.

If somebody says, 'I am a gay person, and I want to get married,' is their own family going to deny them that? Are our own fellow citizens going to deny them that?

Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union.

I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay, it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have.

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody for what they do. I've got cousins who are gay. To me, there's just no difference. We always chill and have family functions the way we always have. It's not a problem.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.