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"Now,
if you can help gay people become not gay, could you help
Mr. Clinton become gay and then save the country?"
--Rock legend David Crosby (Crosby, Stills, Nash and
Young; and the Byrds) to Family Research Council Cultural
Studies Director Bob Knight on TV's Politically
Incorrect, Aug. 12.<><><4><><>
"When
you were gay and then you're not anymore, do you still
like Broadway shows?"
--Actress, screenwriter and comedian Rita Rudner on
TV's Politically Incorrect, Aug. 12.
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"It is
important to be honest about why and when people have
unsafe sex, but that does not mean we should elevate it
to some trendy fetish. Yet now, with smarmy smirks and
swaggers certain self-styled activists are garnering
their 15 minutes of infamy through turning their
dangerous peccadillo into a 'politicized' media
circus."
--Columnist Dominic Hamilton Little in Chicago's
Outlines, Aug. 12.
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"People
are always disappointed when they meet me. I'm not as
funny or as interesting in person."
--Dykes To Watch Out For cartoonist Alison Bechdel to
Toronto's Xtra!, July 30.
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"I
think most of my problems personally came from my
childhood and without the gay world I wouldn't have been
able to overcome these problems."
--Porn superstar Ryan Idol to Miami's The Weekly
News, Aug. 5.
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"When
I came in[to] the [gay-porn] business I started
requesting anyone that I would be working with to have
HIV tests and if they didn't they just wouldn't be
performing with me ... and actually now I request that
the whole cast -- even if I'm not working with them --
anyone who works on my set gets HIV tests ... and if they
choose not to take the test that's as guilty as taking
the test and it coming up positive. [HIV-positive
persons] shouldn't be in the adult video industry."
--Porn superstar Ryan Idol to Miami's The Weekly
News, Aug. 5.
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"We
enjoy the support not just of straight Republicans and
straight Americans, but gay and bisexual Americans as
well. We want their support. They want lower taxes, they
want a balanced budget, they want to take people off
welfare and give them jobs. We're doing that. And we
welcome their support."
--Republican National Committee spokesman Mike
Collins to the San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 13.
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"[Anti-gay
sentiment within the GOP] is a sign of the bankruptcy of
the party. There are so many issues they could be taking
on and now they are taking a position that is directly
contrary to the principles of the Republican Party."
--Conservative pundit Arianna Huffington at the gay
Log Cabin Republicans convention in Dallas, Aug. 16.
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"I
can't stand it when people in the media make up trash
about me and/or Ellen. The rumors and nonsense they make
up about us are unbelievable. They've gone from the
not-so-evil 'I'm pregnant' to 'Now I am straight and
having an affair with Vince Vaughn.' Give me a break. The
words that many people write are harmful. The stories
should be laughable, but in essence show how stupid and
insane some writers can be."
--Actress Anne Heche, Ellen DeGeneres' lover, to
Chicago's Outlines, Aug. 12.
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"Everyone
needs to understand one thing. I have a wife and I love
her dearly. We live together and we love each other more
than anything in the world. I am an entertainer as is
Ellen and we both push ourselves and strive to be the
best that we can at what we do. I hope people stop
writing about our sex life and start to concentrate on
our acting abilities whether they like them or not. My
challenge right now is to shock people with my creative
ability on screen. That is my challenge."
--Actress Anne Heche, Ellen DeGeneres' lover, to
Chicago's Outlines, Aug. 12.
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"[AIDS]
patients should be able to put their information on the
Internet [so they and their doctors can log in and find
out, in real time, how patients are doing on particular
drug combos.] We're all waiting for someone to tell us
what drugs to take. That's not going to happen. We'll
have to find these answers for ourselves. It's time to
hit the keyboards like we hit the streets."
--AIDS activist Larry Kramer whose HIV Treatment Data
Project begins a test-run on the Internet next month, to
the Village Voice, Aug. 25.
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"After
Billy['s Hollywood Screen Kiss], I'm sort of gayed out.
The film is labeled a gay film, and I'm labeled a gay
filmmaker. But the film is trying to make it a non-issue.
It's so exhausting being asked about being gay all the
time. This doesn't mean I'll never do another gay film.
But it will be nice to do something that's not gay."
--Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss writer-director Tommy
O'Haver to Atlanta's Southern Voice, Aug. 13.
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"The
Qstudy-L [Internet mailing list is] so mean-spirited, so
ornery, so contentious, and yet so, so righteous. The
minute someone slipped and blurted out a
white-middle-class-gay-male concept like 'the gay
community,' someone else would feign indignation, taking
the offender to task on the grounds that such a grossly
insensitive phrase excludes blacks, women, and other
persons of color from what one writer called the
'semiotic salad.' List subscribers exploited any occasion
that arose -- the use of an innocuous, yet in their view,
bafflingly complex, word like -- don't tell them I even
said this -- 'gay' or -- worse yet -- 'heterosexual' --
to show how ideologically pure, how racially and sexually
'correct' they were. It was all very Maoist-youth- league
kind of stuff. It was immediately clear to me that this
was just another example of the privileged classes making
love to themselves, wallowing in their own virtuousness,
demonstrating to the world how deeply they commiserated
with the poor downtrodden masses, whom they basically
despised (as became immediately apparent whenever anyone
complained about the elitism and insularity of postmodern
theorists, accusations they countered by raising the
specter of populist anti-intellectualism)."
--Author Daniel Harris in an interview with Echo
Magazine, Aug. 16.
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"The
bi-level, the regulation lesbian haircut, is the ultimate
non-do. It's short and spiky on top, cut straight across
the top of the ear and left longer in the back.
Considering the bi-level's dominance, I used to think
that maybe the bad hair gene was on the same string as
the gay gene. There is, however, considerable peer
pressure to conform in this area. ... This haircut was
not designed to be flattering. It was designed to make
the following statement: 'We don't conform to whole
white-male-dominated ideal of beauty.' This is an
offshoot of the 'We are a bitter people' philosophy that
many lesbians have. These are the women who think people
like me are too happy to be gay. Intentionally bad hair
also makes lesbians easily identifiable. It's a
visibility thing, like those rainbow stickers on our
cars. ... It seems as though all lesbians have the same
haircut because the only lesbians people can readily
identify are the ones with the bad haircut. ...
Meanwhile, those of us who don't do the 'do are accused
of trying to 'pass' as straight. I am not a stealth
lesbian traveling under a cloak of femininity, I'm just
one who thinks that being attracted to other women
doesn't mean I have to quit looking like one. Not only do
I prefer dressing up to dressing down, not care for
camping and lack softball skills, I dare to be satisfied
with my lot in life."
--Chryss Cada writing in the Washington Post, Aug. 9.
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"At
different points, Diana's life story was a fairy tale, a
horror story, a soap opera, a grand opera, a drama, a
romance and a tragedy. But it was also, ultimately, a
retelling of the greatest gay fable of them all -- The
Wizard of Oz. Just like Dorothy Gale, Diana, Princess of
Wales was an innocent little girl who found herself
caught up in a cyclone that took her some place she never
felt she really belonged, and so she had to start on a
life-changing journey down the long and winding yellow
brick road. Hell, she even managed to pull back the magic
curtain that exposed the 'wonderful' Wizards of Windsor
for what they really are -- i.e. nothing special. And
most important of all, somewhere along the way, Diana
discovered that she already had the three most important
things in the world: a heart, a brain and courage. Unlike
Dorothy, just as Diana looked like she was ready to click
her heels together three times and say 'there's no place
like home', she was taken away from us. But even though
Diana's story doesn't have a happy ending, no Gay Icon of
the past ever got quite as close as she did to finally
getting over that rainbow."
--Richard Smith in London's Gay Times, August issue.
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"I
believe that the steady erosion of oft-denigrated 'family
values' has resulted in a disaster for our children and
society. Never before have we had so many children in
broken or never-made homes; children into drugs, violence
and sex; children killing themselves and others; children
raised by institutions instead of by parents; children
killing their own infants; children being molested by
Mom's many boyfriends; children not doing well
academically and children lost emotionally. You have to
be in serious denial not to see the connection between
these maladies and the undermining of what structure and
behavior best supports the raising of children. On my
program, for example, I've seen a terrible trend of
people getting married, having children and then deciding
they are gay and abandoning their obligations for their
sex life."
--Syndicated columnist Dr. Laura wigs out, Aug. 12.
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"Kenya
has no room or time for homosexuals and lesbians.
Homosexuality is against African norms and traditions,
and even in religion it is considered a great sin."
--Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi to the Daily
Nation newspaper, according to the Sapa-Panos news
agency, Aug. 14.
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"Taking
into account other modes of transmission of HIV/AIDS,
homosexuality is negligible, and should not take up our
resources and time. We have other, far more pressing
areas which affect the majority of our people and
therefore need urgent attention."
--Kenyan Ministry of Health spokesman Maina Kahindo
to the Sapa-Panos news agency, Aug. 14.
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