"YOU PHOTOGRAPH YOUR FOOD/ You've made your own ricotta/ You have seasonal scarves/ You use periods instead of dashes in phone numbers/ You watch TV only on DVD/ You think you're down with lesbian chefs/ You don't vacation—you holiday." — A few of the "63 Signs You May Be a Pretentious Tool," in the October 2009 issue of Details magazine.
"It's time the rest of us showed up on the national equality mall and let Obama know that the cocktail party crowd—the suck-ups, the sycophants, and the scaredy-cats—doesn't represent us. We want full equal rights ( or at least see a substantial commitment to moving in that direction ) —not photo ops and wine spritzers." — Michaelangelo Signorile, on why he planned to attend the National Equality March, in the October issue of The Advocate.
"a whip-smart voice of reason in the racket that is cable news/A whip-smart voice of reason in the racket that is the blogosphere." — Descriptions of, respectively, lesbian MSNBC talk-show host Rachel Maddow and openly gay blogger Andrew Sullivan in Esquire magazine's list of "The 75 Best People in the World," Oct. 2009
"GENE SIMMONS SPOUTED SOMETHING, that he thought I'd ruined my career by coming out. He's obnoxious, and what a hypocrite—all he talks about is his sex life. He was being a dick—and he's not the greatest singer. I guess he's a good businessman, I'll give him that." — Singer Adam Lambert, in the Nov. 26 issue of Rolling Stone magazine.
"madonna makes things happen. Put Madonna up against any twenty-three-year-old, she'll outwork them, outdance them, outperform them. The woman is broad." — Film director Guy Ritchie on his ex-wife, Madonna, in the November issue of Esquire magazine.
"You're welcome to dismiss this legend as horrifying homophobia—it is certainly that. I prefer to view it as the ultimate signifier of rock'n'roll's central paradox: It's what happens when you aim fantasies about sexual empowerment at sexually powerless adolescent boys." — Steve Almond in the December 2009 issue of SPIN magazine, addressing the longstanding myth that singer Rod Stewart once had a gallon of semen pumped from his stomach.
