'Angie [ Angelina Jolie ] and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able.' — Actor Brad Pitt to Esquire magazine in the October issue.
'A little announcement [ that you're gay ] and you're everywhere. ... I'm totally happy, I'm a completely different person, I think. It just sucks with all the lies you have to tell. ... It's been crazy because everyone's paying attention to what I'm doing now. ... Everyone's been very supportive.' — Former 'NSync singer Lance Bass to Warner Brothers Studios' ExtraTV.com, Aug. 29.
'I think if they want to get married, God bless them. Gay marriage is probably 1 percent of the population, so it's not like it's going to be an epidemic. Hey, trust me, I'm never going to kiss you and say, 'Chris, you're sexy.'' — Former National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player Charles Barkley on Fox SportsNet's CMI: The Chris Meyers Interview, Sept. 3. Meyers is considering a run for governor of Alabama.
' [ M ] y video for 'Beautiful' ... had a visual of two gay men kissing, which I thought was important because 'Beautiful' was about going against the grain and just being proud of who you are. The feedback was incredible. That's when I knew that they [ gays ] got who I am.' — Singer Christina Aguilera in an interview published in the Delaware gay magazine EXP, Aug. 18.
'Men are ejaculation machines, and they only really need an hour or less of downtime before they need to ejaculate again. It's not that they're gay men, it's that they're gay men, and straight men would go to bathhouses and public sex environments if straight women would.' — Gay syndicated columnist Dan Savage to the Boston gay newspaper Bay Windows, Aug. 17.
'I've never dreamt that I would kiss James Bond; it's not something I have ever aspired to. Now I've done it, I can say that I hope I am the first of many. ... It was slightly abrasive, but ultimately rewarding. And neither of us are gay.' — British actor Toby Jones on kissing the current James Bond, Daniel Craig, in the new movie Infamous, as quoted by Reuters and other media, Aug. 31.
'I saw him [ Tom Cruise ] doing the couch jumping. I wasn't mad at him. I was mad at Oprah. Oprah, couldn't you have said, 'Tommy, come here! Don't jump'. ... For me, to love someone is not to get rid of them when they do something you don't think is appropriate. I love him, and love is eternal. [ But ] it never went to sexual. My Angelina Jolie crush was much more sexual than my Tom Cruise crush ever was.' — Rosie O'Donnell to Newsweek, Sept. 11. O'Donnell added that if Cruise had lost it on her show, she'd have sat him down and retaped the segment.
'There are people who think that I'm strident and bossy and much too New York and left-wing liberal. You get what you paid for, and there's no way that I'm going to change.' — Rosie O'Donnell to Newsweek, Sept. 11.
'I used to use security a lot because you're supposed to be scared. And then my therapist said, 'When was the last time a celebrity was killed or nearly killed?' In your lifetime, you can name three: Theresa Saldana, Rebecca Schaeffer and John Lennon. You probably know three teachers who were killed'.' — Rosie O'Donnell to Newsweek, Sept. 11.
'I'm just a performer who plays people some music. I hope that my music helps people to forget about their problems for a few hours. But I'm also a gay man and I've heard that gay people face violence in Poland. Leave us alone. We don't want to harm anybody. We just want to love and be loved.' — Elton John during a performance at Poland's Sopot Festival on Sept. 2, as relayed by members of Poland's Campaign Against Homophobia organization.
'Instead of waging efforts to change hearts and minds, gay movement leaders have tried to bludgeon opponents and pursued a strategy where a very small minority would impose its will on a vast majority through judicial fiat. While activists relied on the courts for victory, supporters of traditional marriage took the debate to the ballot box and won every single time. A failed strategy appears to have put gay marriage out of reach for a long time to come.' — Jeff Gannon, the man at the center of that White House press corps/gay-prostitution brouhaha, in his regular column in the gay newspaper Washington Blade, Sept. 1.
'The people don't matter to this gang [ the Bush administration ] . They pay no attention. They think in totalitarian terms. They've got the troops. They've got the army. They've got Congress. They've got the judiciary. Why should they worry? Let the chattering classes chatter. Bush is a thug. I think there is something really wrong with him. ... There should be a great deal of reaction to the total incompetence of this Administration. It's going to take two or three generations to recover what we had as of twenty years ago.' — Gay writer Gore Vidal to The Progressive, August issue.
