"Part of me is titillated by the fact that I'm gay." —Singer k.d. lang ( pictured ) .
'Matt Foreman, who announced January 23 that he would be resigning as executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, was many things during his five years at the top of one of the country's preeminent gay rights organizations. He was an outspoken opponent of the war in Iraq. He fought against privatizing Social Security. He stood foursquare against the erosion of abortion rights. But what any of these issues have to do with lobbying for gay rights—presumably Foreman's job description—is beyond me. His job description, though, was the problem. Foreman, after all, is just a symptom of the larger problem with NGLTF: It's a garden-variety liberal interest group posing as a gay rights organization.' — James Kirchick, an assistant editor of The New Republic, writing at Advocate.com, Feb. 5.
'Don't you find it to be horrendous that we have a president of the United States of America that's sat up on his, I don't know what you want to call it, his throne that he thinks it is, and said that gay couples shouldn't be allowed to marry? That's insane.' — Lorna Luft, Judy Garland's daughter, to London's Pink Paper, Jan. 24.
'I think the gay community has grown up and evolved. There's a new driver and vehicle to explore and a wider spectrum of existence not focused only on coming out—it's a more expansive culture that is accepting of transgendered people, bisexuals and others. Remember when we used to hate bisexuals? I think society is more open about sexual orientation in general. Look at Larry Craig or the whole Catholic Church scandal. It's not all black and white anymore; even in the gay and lesbian community there is a spectrum. And that's very heartening.' — Singer k.d. lang to the lesbian glossy Curve, March issue.
'Part of me is titillated by the fact that I'm gay. I remember when being gay was all very cryptic. You'd sneak into the back door and down the stairs and back around and then you're suddenly in some magical world called gay culture. It was very exciting and very underworld. I actually kind of miss those days.' — Singer k.d. lang to the Toronto gay newspaper Xtra!, Feb. 1.
'Well, it wasn't that I wasn't a big fan. I hadn't seen the play. I live in Georgia, OK? I was asked to do a monologue called 'Cunt.' And I said, 'I don't think so, I got enough problems.'' — Jane Fonda discussing her starring role in the play 'The Vagina Monologues,' on NBC's Today show, Feb. 14.
'Not since Janet Jackson's fake tit popped out of her whore outfit and destroyed a whole generation has there been such a televised outrage! In case you haven't heard, Jane Fonda ignored all civilized codes of decency on the Today show this morning and proved herself to be the syphilitic heathen I've always known her to be! In discussing The Vagina Monologues with a suitably mortified Meredith Vieira, Jane slipped out the vilest, most barbaric emission since she announced that she was Hanoi Jane. She said a word that is so coarsely repellent I can't even bring myself to repeat it for fear it will corrupt my own millions of impressionable fans and turn them into unpaid sex workers! You see, the J-word said the c-word and this little f-word was absolutely...thrilled, actually! Bless you, Jane! I love the fact that you said cunt on national TV. Let's hope this becomes cunt-agious and all the other Oscar winners start spouting it too. Come on, Helen Mirren, say it! Say 'cunt'! Say 'cunt'!!!!!!' — Gay Village Voice columnist Michael Musto on his blog, Feb. 14.
'It's really sad if people see me like that. Just because somebody has kinky tastes doesn't mean that they're seedy. People who know me and love me would never call me that.' — Boy George to London's Daily Mail, Jan. 18. George recently was charged with falsely imprisoning a male escort by chaining him to the wall of his flat.
'It's so important for gay people to come out. It's the young people I've always been so concerned about. When a young person has to hide, then you start having a very strange life. Then you start sneaking around, going to weird places and then you're not safe and you're embarrassed and not feeling good about yourself and you can't have a healthy, safe relationship. It becomes sort of underground and perverse, and it's just no good! It's so important to me to have people be themselves, and it's so important to have more talk about it and have it out in the open.' — Actress Bernadette Peters to the Palm Springs gay magazine the BottomLine, Feb. 1.
—Assistance: Bill Kelley
