Marcia Cross. Photo courtesy GLAAD. Eric McCormack. Photo by Rex Wockner______
'I have this big pink cross to bear. I absolutely loved playing Will. There was nothing hard about it. It was wonderful. But the only downside is the aftermath. I meet all these film executives who tell me how much they loved Will & Grace and say they never missed an episode. Then they say, 'So what can we do for you?' What they could do for me is hire me to play someone else. ... I just need to find that one film that will change people's minds about me.' — Will & Grace star Eric McCormack speaking at the International Television Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, Aug. 26, as reported by Britain's The Observer.
'Everything ( even the tenements ) have been tarted up and the West Village is the most expensive and desirable real estate in Manhattan. Before gay liberation, blacks and Hispanics were accepted. ... Now white middle-class gays have become as snobbish as their straight counterparts—I guess that's the price of assimilation, but unfortunately it's a price that others must pay.' — Famed gay author Edmund White on Greenwich Village to the New York Observer, Aug. 28.
'I was not happy about it [ when Barbara Walters asked me on The View if I'm a lesbian ] . My father, who's 80-something, and my mother were in the front row of the audience. When I got backstage, Barbara Walters came up to me and said, 'You know, I have to ask you about this.' And I said, 'Why do you have to ask me about this?' 'Well, it's news.' I was like, 'It's news?' ... My dad was in the front row going like this [ gesturing ] : 'What did they say? Are you a what?' I just thought about Barbara: 'You didn't have to ask me that question. That was tabloid-y of you.' I felt really used. So now I don't really like looking at Barbara Walters.' — Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross ( Bree ) to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Aug. 13.
'He is perhaps the most empowered gay teen in the history of television. He's gay, and he doesn't care.' — Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry on character Andrew Van De Camp, to the Los Angeles Daily News, Aug. 22.
'I don't fear dying broke anymore. That's a nice change. ... I go to places and I meet other famous people—many times they know who I am. That's really weird. I kind of toddled along through my life with a level of anonymity and suddenly, I woke up one day and for example, I walked into a Broadway theater and I got my tickets from a guy who says, 'Oh, I love your show.' He hadn't seen my name or anything. I was like, 'Oh, OK, thank you.' It's that feeling of 'I'm somebody,' that's all. I always had a decent self-esteem but to have folks recognize you, that's an odd experience. To see how people react because you're somewhat known, that's just fascinating. But mostly, my life is as it always was. I get up, I go to work, I come home, I'm tired, I watch a little news, I pet my cat and then I go to bed.' — Openly gay Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry when asked Aug. 13 by the Philippine Daily Inquirer, 'How has success affected you?'
'You name me a big female star who's not a gay icon. Every major female performer I know is aware that they have gay followings and how sensitive they are. I just think gay people have better taste.' — Liza Minnelli to thestrippodcast.com, Aug. 17.
'No, she didn't. She just loved her fans. She didn't care what they did in bed. They were her fans.' — Liza Minnelli, when asked if her mother, Judy Garland, ever talked to her about gay people, to thestrippodcast.com, Aug. 17.
'Prejudices and dislike will, ultimately, only recede when gay people themselves break the spell of silence and stand up to be counted. ... When growing numbers of Asian Australians, Arab Australians, Aboriginals and 'reffos' [ refugees ] came to be known on a personal level, it was impossible to sustain the previous feelings of hate, discrimination and superiority.' — Openly gay Australian High Court Justice Michael Kirby in an Aug. 18 address to the Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby of New South Wales.
'I still get such a kick out of playing Ernestine as she is so involved with herself. I can't even talk about her without screwing up my face and wanting to snort.' — Openly gay actress Lily Tomlin to the gay newspaper Sydney Star Observer, Aug. 17.
'A lot of [ gay ] acceptance has been won, but we are on a precipice with the incredible division in people with this [ Bush ] administration. It has been so profound, using the same-sex marriage issue as a divisive issue and making this seem like such a threat to the tradition of marriage, whatever that may be. I feel if we don't change this administration and turn some of this around, where could it possibly end? I don't trust it at all and feel it is perilous.' — Openly gay actress Lily Tomlin to the gay newspaper Sydney Star Observer, Aug. 17.
'I went out with a guy for about two and a half weeks before he said to me, 'I'm a female-to-male transsexual.' And I remember our first dinner, I had said to him, 'So, tell me about yourself.' Now in what part of 'tell me about yourself' do you not think, 'I should probably tell him I don't have a penis'? Now had I been a woman—like a bisexual woman—that would have been, 'Oh my God, I've struck the jackpot!'' — Gay comic ANT to Instinct magazine, July issue.
