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"You know, the same percentage of people are gay and lesbian as are
left-handed. Let's try to figure that out. How can it be that a left-handed
person can get married to another left-handed person. Left-handed people can do
anything they want... I say, give homosexuals the same rights we give
left-handed people."
Peter Camejo on GLBT Rights on Oct. 2, 2003 |
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"Six [Democratic presidential] candidates -- representatives Richard Gephardt and Dennis
Kucinich,
the Rev. Al Sharpton, former Vermont governor Howard Dean,
Sen. John Kerry and former senator Carol Moseley Braun -- have given their blessings to civil unions
affording gays and lesbians legal recognition of their partnerships. Sharpton and Kucinich have gone a step further than those six candidates,
indicating they support legal recognition of gay marriages.
Three contenders -- senators John Edwards of North Carolina, Bob Graham of Florida and Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut -- stopped short of endorsing civil unions, but did not oppose them. Edwards and Lieberman said the issue should be left to individual states, while Graham said it deserves further study." The Boston Globe, April 26. |
| "We were trying to impress upon him how hurtful his comments were, and we were
taken aback that a person in his position would make such remarks and not
apologize for them. He got a little upset and started telling us about the
privacy laws, and that he is an attorney and that we were just parents. We
weren't there to make a legal argument. We were there to support our
children."
Allen Kirschner of Philadelphia after he and three other PFLAG parents met with U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., to the Philadelphia Inquirer, May 3. Santorum has been under fire for comparing homosexuality to bigamy, polygamy, adultery and incest. |
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"Every woman that gay culture loves is very outspoken.
Barbra Streisand. Think about what taboos Barbra broke. Ugly. Cross-eyed. Great voice. Bette Midler --- outrageous. All about strength, courage, breaking the mold, not giving a damn. I used to say we're outsiders and gays are outsiders. That's all changed now, too. Nobody's an outsider anymore." Joan Rivers to In Los Angeles, May 5. |
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"I have to say that I think there's a gay man in everybody. ...
I think every straight man has the capacity to have sex with another man. ... I quite fancy the Rock, actually. I'd love for him to throw me around a bit... He's quite brutish and hot, don't you think? I should be careful about saying more. He might find me and kick my ass. ... If I meet a man I fancy enough to have sex with, I will." Singer Robbie Williams to The Advocate, May 13. |
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"I was comfortable in the industry that I was in,
because there were other gay people around, and I never felt I had to make a statement of any kind. I was just a gay guy writing Broadway musicals. ... I was so grateful that I was not working in a Ford factory, you know? I mean, if I had been in almost any other business, I probably would have been very uncomfortable." Composer/lyricist Jerry Herman ("Hello, Dolly"; "Mame"; "La Cage aux Folles") to D.C.'s Metro Weekly, April 24. |
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"Everything is in it: There's greed, there's jealousy,
there's love, there's pain, there's hope, there's desperation, there's pride, there's friendship, there's betrayal. It's an amazing, amazing story. There's so much in it --- it's so dense that it nearly reads like bad fiction. Obviously bisexual --- which wasn't even an issue back then. There was no term for bisexuality --- it was just the way society was. People made love to men and women. It was only later on you had to pick one side of the fence. It's amazing." Actor Colin Farrell on playing Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's upcoming film on the fourth century B.C. king, to BBC Radio 1, April 24. |
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"We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong value...
looking good, having cash in the bank, being perceived as rich, famous and successful or just being famous. It's the most superficial part of the American dream and who would know better than me? The only thing that's going to bring you happiness is love and how you treat your fellow man and having compassion for one another." Madonna to Britain's Radio Times, April 24. |
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"I don't go to gay bars. I'm against all-gay or all-straight anything.
I think separatism is defeat. I'm for mixing. I'm for sexual terrorism, when you don't know who's what. That's why I like all the kids, they don't even know what they are; it doesn't matter. So no, I don't go to all-gay places, I don't have a rainbow flag." Gay filmmaker John Waters to Phoenix's HeatStroke News, April 17. |
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"I don't do anything political [on stage].
I never have, even though I'm considered a political person. ... People know I'm gay now, and that's it ... that's where it ends." Ellen DeGeneres to the Washington Times, April 16. |
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"We lost our country to somebody who claimed he was a compassionate conservative
but once he was elected the compassion was gone. We want our country back and we're going to take it back."
Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean
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"If you dream of a world in which you can put your partner's picture on your desk,
then put her picture on your desk...and you will live in such a world. And if you dream of a world in which you can walk down the street holding your partner's hand, then hold her hands...and you will live in such a world. If you dream of a world in which there are more openly gay elected officials, then run for office...and you will live in such a world. And if you dream of a world in which you can take your partner to the office party, even if your office is the US House of Representatives, then take her to the party. I do, and now I live in such a world. Remember, there are two things that keep us oppressed --- them and us. We are half of the equation."
Tammy Baldwin
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