If you could make them laugh ... maybe they'd sleep with you!—John Waters ( pictured, photo by Rex Wockner ) , reflecting on how he got along with juvenile delinquents growing up
'Despite the tears of joy flooding through the gay community and despite the soothing gobs of liberal bliss pouring like warm honey over tens of thousands—nay, millions—of progressive humans worldwide, all of whom are cheering this landmark groundbreaking rainbow-colored California Supreme Court decision, seeing it as one of the most positive, hopeful shifts to occur in decades, the armies of right-wing darkness are screaming their dread, scraping their nails on the chalkboard of fear, rallying the bitterly faithful. ... As you read these very words, shrill cultural conservatives from Orange County to Fresno to Stockton are holding meetings in all sorts of grungy subbasements and moldy rec rooms and sterile Holiday Inn conference rooms, sipping watery Sanka and sweating profusely in their armpits and scowling like angry cats as they work to put a quick and painful stop to all this gay-loving God-hating nonsense, by way of an initiative on the November ballot outlawing icky and confusing gay marriage, by constitutional decree, once and for all. See? Same as it ever was: One beautiful step forward, one giant jackboot back.' — San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford, May 16.
'I was wandering around Times Square ( on my first day in New York in the 1950s ) and this guy says, 'I'm going to Radio City Music Hall, would you like to come?' And I said, 'Oh, yes.' I thought, 'Wow, New York is everything I heard it was going to be!' We're in the audience, I'm a young hot-blooded Canadian and out come the dancing girls, a plethora of women—and I feel his hand brush my knee. I thought, well, it's an accident, then I felt it again. What the fuck? I got up and ran out.' — Actor William Shatner ( Captain Kirk ) to the New York Post, May 13.
'A certain kind of political humor flies here ( in the U.S. ) because of the fact that your government is so massive and borderline frightening. There's such a right-wing conservative Puritan strain in ( the U.S. ) . In our country ( Canada ) , it's the opposite. The authoritarian strain comes from the left, not the right. It's almost a mirror image. ... Political correctness is something that is almost an official tenet of Canadian life. Religion is certainly not a part of public life at all. You can't attack other people's religions the same way. There is a certain kind of insistence on tolerance in Canada that is intolerant.' — Openly gay comedian Scott Thompson of Kids in the Hall, to Philadelphia Gay News, April 25.
'I couldn't win any fight. Anyone could beat me up. So in high school, as a juvenile delinquent hag, basically, I learned that people who would beat you up, if you could make them laugh, they wouldn't beat you up, and maybe they'd sleep with you!' — Gay filmmaker John Waters on TV's The Daily Show, April 22.
'I gave away my first pair of chaps for a charity auction, but they felt so good I had to get another pair. But I could only find cowboy chaps. I wanted rock 'n' roll chaps, so I went to West Hollywood where there are all these leather bars and tailors and found a very lovely Russian woman who's making them for me.' — Lucy Lawless ( Xena: Warrior Princess ) to Time Out London, April 28.
'When Xena first started, I got a lot of mail from older British men—judges and lawyers mostly—asking me to walk all over them in my big leather boots!' — Lucy Lawless ( Xena: Warrior Princess ) to Time Out London, April 28.
'This is the 4000th post on JMG. As I said in December for post 3000, what HAVE we been going on about? Oh, wait. I do know: blah, bears, blah, gay marriage, blah, wingnuts, blah, Clintobama, blah-dee-freekin-blah. Sheesh.' — Popular gay blogger Joe Jervis ( Joe.My.God. ) , April 18.
—Assistance: Bill Kelley