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"When I'm throwing a party it's very important that a lot of 27-year-old Latin men come, preferably shirtless." -Queer Eye for the Straight Guy food guy Ted Allen to San Diego's Gay & Lesbian Times, Jan. 26. "Many Americans, especially parents, still have deep concerns about the direction of our culture, and the health of our most basic institutions. They are concerned about unethical conduct by public officials, and discouraged by activist courts that try to redefine marriage." -President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address, Jan. 31. "I can't tell you the number of people who, after that first episode screened, said to me in all seriousness, 'I didn't know Gay people could have sex face-to-face.'" -Queer As Folk actor Peter Paige (Emmett) to the Sydney Star Observer, Feb. 2. "I do find I have to jump through hoops that other actors would not have to jump through. The combination of playing the queen, being on Queer As Folk and being openly Gay is a trifecta of stereotyping which has allowed some casting people to say, 'He's not right for this.' So we are doing a lot of pushing [to get me work since Queer As Folk ended], but that's all right as it was all worth it." -Actor Peter Paige, who played QAF's Emmett, to the Sydney Star Observer, Feb. 2. "My least favorite is the current president because he's a liar. Bill Clinton was my favorite because - despite Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act - he had Gay friends, he knew about Gay people and that little opening made a lot more Gay people come out." -Lesbian comedian Kate Clinton to columnist Richard Burnett in the Montreal weekly newspaper Hour, Feb. 2. "I've spent many years where networks and studios have said: 'We're only going to pay you this amount of money because we're taking such a big chance on you. You're openly Gay. It's very risky to hire you - you big homo you.' Now that we have Gay networks, I don't think I have to put up with that shit anymore. So Logo calls me all the time and asks me to do stuff, and they always ask me to do it for free. And I'm pretty insulted." -Actor Harvey Fierstein to the Gay magazine QVegas, February issue. "I guess there are these people that are against everything I do, but I never come into contact with them. I judge success not by money or reviews. I think it's that you never have to meet assholes. I have achieved that success." -Gay filmmaker John Waters to PlanetOut.com, Feb. 9. "It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult for a woman if she's Lesbian. It's very distressing to me that that should be the case. It's not true of actors on the other side of the American continent, on Broadway, where people are very at ease with being open and honest. But the film industry is very old-fashioned in California." -Actor Sir Ian McKellen speaking at the Berlin Film Festival, Feb. 11. "The day I saw it, I sat behind four straight, early middle-aged, blue-collar blokes obviously dragged along by the wives and girlfriends who sat between them. Before the film started they cracked the lamest jokes about condoms and mounting, but five minutes in and for the rest of the film, they were silent, staring at the screens with mouths agape. The Brokeback [Mountain] world of poor-paid jobs, bad bosses, broken-down cars, monotonous food, poverty, uncertainty, anxiety, indignity, wives who don't understand and love besieged by circumstances - this film version of a Bruce Springsteen song - it's their world, one rarely if ever represented on the silver screen." -Leading Australian Gay activist Rodney Croome writing on his Web site, Feb. 2. "I am writing to you from an alcohol treatment center where on Feb. 1, with the encouragement and support of my partner, daughters and colleagues, I checked myself in to deal with my increasing dependence on alcohol." -New Hampshire bishop V. Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Church's first openly Gay bishop, in an e-mail to clergy that was released by the New Hampshire diocese Feb. 14. Robinson's 2003 election as bishop has caused ongoing, serious conflict in the worldwide Anglican Communion, of which the Episcopal Church is the U.S. branch. "We're seeing people who become sex addicts and don't have a long history with the problem prior to going online. The Internet is the crack cocaine of sex addiction. Internet sex is not like porn where you have to leave your house and go to the bookstore. The Internet is accessible and also never-ending; there's always another image or person online - not to mention it's cheap as pasta." -Psychotherapist Robert Weiss, author of the new book Cruise Control: Understanding Sex Addiction in Gay Men, to Advocate.com, Jan. 27. "We envision a local culture that upholds the marriage of a woman to a man, and a man to a woman, as ordained of God. This culture affirms marriage as the best path to health, security, fulfillment, and joy. It casts the home built on marriage as the source of true political sovereignty and ordered liberty. It also holds the household framed by marriage to be the primary economic unit, a place marked by rich activity, material abundance, and broad self-reliance. This culture treasures private property in family hands as the rampart of independence and liberty. It celebrates the marital sexual union as the unique source of new human life. We see our homes as open to a full quiver of children, the source of family continuity and social growth. We envision young women growing into wives, homemakers, and mothers; and we see young men growing into husbands, home-builders, and fathers. ... We look to a landscape of family homes, lawns, and gardens busy with useful tasks and ringing with the laughter of many children." -From the "Resolution on The Natural Family: A Vision for Utah" passed unanimously in January by the Kanab (Utah) City Council. "I guess when you reach your forties, you should expect your body to fall apart bit by bit. But there's something faintly embarrassing about my own acquired malfunctions. I snored too much; my teeth were falling apart; and I got plantar warts on my feet. CPAP machines are not exactly sexy; root canals are no fun; but having warts burned off your feet is another thing entirely. I've now gone through three separate burn-offs, and only a couple of teensy warts disappeared. So last Friday, the podiatrist went for what he called the nuclear option. He injected bleomycin crystals in liquid form into each wart. You just don't know how many nerve endings there are in your feet until someone sticks a needle in them." -Gay writer Andrew Sullivan on his blog, Feb. 9. |
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