'I feel that if I had been more mysterious about my own sexuality and played it a little more ambiguous, I probably would have sold more records and had more supporters, and sometimes I do bemoan the fact that I didn't go that route.' — Out singer Rufus Wainwright to AfterElton.com, April 22.
'I think that one has to oppose what happened here yesterday. Revolting pederasts came here from many countries and tried to impose their propaganda on us.' — Polish Education Minister Roman Giertych to the Associated Press as he marched in an anti-gay parade in Warsaw the day after the gay-pride parade. The pride parade drew 20,000 marchers and the anti-pride parade attracted 800.
'I have a great-great-grandfather. They were trying to build a generation out there in the desert and so he took additional wives as he was told to do. And I must admit, I can't imagine anything more awful than polygamy.' — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on CBS-TV's 60 Minutes, May 13.
'This isn't just some temporary convenience here on Earth, but we're people that are designed to live together as male and female and we're going to have families. And that, there's a great line in the Bible that children are an inheritance of the Lord and happy is he who has or hath his quiver full of them.' — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney discussing gay marriage on CBS-TV's 60 Minutes, May 13.
'The death of a family member or friend is always a sad occasion and we express our condolences to all those who were close to the Rev. Jerry Falwell. Unfortunately, we will always remember him as a founder and leader of America's anti-gay industry, someone who exacerbated the nation's appalling response to the onslaught of the AIDS epidemic, someone who demonized and vilified us for political gain and someone who used religion to divide rather than unite our nation.' — National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive Director Matt Foreman, May 15.
'I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way—all of them who have tried to secularize America—I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.'' — The Rev. Jerry Falwell discussing 9/11 on TV's The 700 Club, Sept. 13, 2001. Falwell died May 15 at age 73.
'You are naked in front of 35 strangers, simulating sex with someone you may or may not be attracted to ... naked in front of a bunch of weirdoes, and there is someone holding a microphone over your head and they are spritzing you with water and oil to make you look sweaty, and they are like, 'Can you put your head back, put your hand back on his ass and we will start from there.' That is ridiculous, that whole concept. ... So if you are gay and you can't handle the fact that I didn't like the gay sex scenes, or you are straight and you automatically think I am gay, then you are both the same asshole, and I have no interest in talking to you. The truth is I did it because I think it deserved to be done. As hard as it was, that meant it was more of a mission. I had a reason to do it.' — Queer As Folk actor Hal Sparks ( Michael Novotny ) to the Florida gay magazine The Gazette, May issue.
'I greeted with relief the news that Rosie O'Donnell will be leaving ABC's 'The View.' ... What a crass solipsist, clod and yahoo O'Donnell is—and what a bad advertisement for both liberalism and lesbianism. I thoroughly enjoyed Donald Trump putting the shiv to her with his eye-opening insults of withering accuracy. The list of O'Donnell's faults overfloweth—beginning with her stentorian humorlessness and her infantile rudeness to her cohosts and ending with her crackpot conspiracy theories and her constant flaunting of her banal regimen of antidepressants.' — Author and academic Camille Paglia writing at Salon.com, May 9.
'The Supremes have always had a huge gay following, probably to do with the glamour. When we were coming up, to be so glamorous at that stage in American history was definitely different.' — Mary Wilson to the gay newspaper The Bottom Line, April 27.
—Assistance: Bill Kelley
