Rants & raves.

"I am proud of who I am, and ... I'm finally in a place where my heart is secure and content."

--DARREN HAYES, former lead singer of Australian pop group Savage Garden, coming out on his Web site, July 17. Hayes also revealed he married his boyfriend, Richard, in a civil partnership ceremony in London on June 19

"I don't want to entice any of these people into our state. Those are the wrong kind of people."

--Kentucky state senator RICHARD "DICK" ROEDING, arguing in The [Louisville, Ky.] Courier-Journal against offering benefits to domestic partners of University of Louisville employees, July 14

"The stuff I do [in my movies] is very much rooted in male relationships--how those relationships are like marriage without the sex."

--Clerks II director KEVIN SMITH, in the Minneapolis-St. Paul weekly City Pages, July 19

"Everybody might be like, 'What? We don't want Aileen's dirty bra!' But I do! That was one of the hardest things to give up."

--CHARLIZE THERON, on donating to charity a bra she wore as lesbian serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster, according to Us Weekly, July 31

"He is always trying to kiss me. I'm like, 'No tongue!'"

--ORLANDO BLOOM, on his Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest costar Johnny Depp, according to Us Weekly, July 31