''Now everything makes sense,' Irene Selznick said to me. 'Dorothy Arzner, Nancy Hamilton—all those women. Laura Harding. now it
all makes sense. A double-gater (swung both ways). I never believed that relationship with Spence was about sex.' — A. Scott Berg,
writing in his new book Kate Remembered, about Katharine Hepburn's alleged affairs with women, page 266.
'It used to be the U.S. government deployed words like 'communist,' 'evil empire' or 'vast, right-wing conspiracy' to disparage
people it didn't like. Now it seems another epithet has been added to the list: 'Canadian.' ABC News correspondent Jeffrey Kofman's
stories on plummeting U.S. troop morale in Iraq have apparently angered the Bush Administration to the point that the White House
reportedly put the word out to Republican-friendly media pundits that Mr. Kofman is a homosexual and, worse yet, from Canada. A
headline on Internet gossip-monger Matt Drudge's Web site Wednesday evening blared ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT WHO
FILED TROOP COMPLAINTS STORY IS OPENLY GAY, CANADIAN. Despite White House denials, Mr. Drudge himself said Bush
officials handed him the information on the ABC reporter.' — CanWest News Service July 19. Kofman was also recently profiled in
The Advocate. He won Canada's National Human Rights Award for a 1987 CBC documentary on AIDS discrimination. He is also a
co-founder of the Canadian affiliate of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.
'I find these tactics revolting and unforgivable. These attempts to spread rumors about me I think will backfire. ... People can draw
whatever conclusions they want to [about my sexuality]. There are certain things we shouldn't discuss in public. Some people may
think that's old-fashioned, but I firmly believe it's a good rule to live by.' — U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., who is running for Senate, to
the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, May 22. On May 8, the Ft. Lauderdale weekly newspaper New Times Broward-Palm Beach reported: <
p>'[Mark] Foley, the nine-year conservative Republican U.S. representative out of Lake Worth, is gay. That is no revelation to political
and media types. Everyone knows it, though no newspaper outside the gay press has ever really touched the issue.'
'Meanwhile, it pays to go down—whoo!—and pick up the existing free gay weeklies. Gay City News recently attacked Hillary
Clinton for her 'stony silence' regarding Rick Santorum's homophobic remarks, and that prompted Hill to pipe up, writing the paper
that she's not afraid to speak out against 'disgraceful and divisive' comments like Santorum's. Yay! I'm glad I also checked out
Advocate.com, where a writer revealed that at the big American Idol press conference, he said to runner-up Clay Aiken, 'A lot of your
fan base thinks you're gay. Any comment on that?' The cutely femmy Clay glazed over, said nothing, and moved on to another
reporter. Come on, sing out, Louise!' — Village Voice columnist Michael Musto.
'I like very much to be thought of as an artist rather than a propagandist or something, but everything informs my sensibility. I was
never deceptive in any way [about my lesbianism]. I never went anyplace without Jane [Wagner]—when I can get her to go! She's not
one to fall to social obligations.' — Lily Tomlin to Los Angeles' Lesbian News, July issue.
'Actors have a certain obligation to their public. For instance, playing leading men, well, don't mess with that image. A lot of
people thought they were in love with me, you know, women all over the place. They were really in love with an image, and I didn't
want to mess with that image.' — Newly out actor Richard Chamberlain (Dr. Kildare), 69, to AP Radio, June 5.
'We: (1) declare the existing common law definition of marriage to be invalid to the extent that it refers to 'one man and one
woman'; (2) reformulate the common law definition of marriage as 'the voluntary union for life of two persons to the exclusion of all
others;' (3) order the declaration of invalidity in (1) and the reformulated definition in (2) to have immediate effect; (4) order the Clerk
of the City of Toronto to issue marriage licenses to the Couples.' — The Ontario Court of Appeal, the Canadian province's highest
court, legalizing full same-sex marriage June 10, effective immediately. Scores of gay weddings have taken place already. On June
17, the federal government announced its agreement with the ruling and began the process of rewriting the marriage law. Ontario has
no residency requirement for marriage. American gay couples can go there now, buy a license, and get married the same day.
'No.' — City of Toronto spokeswoman Anne McLaughlin when asked by this column June 11, 'Do you need to be Canadian to
get married in the province of Ontario?' Ontario's highest court forced legalization of same-sex marriage June 10 and gay couples
began marrying immediately. Details are at www.cbs.gov .on.ca/mcbs/english/marriages.htm.
'There are so many reality shows out there now, I wanted to do one for Bravo that nobody else would or could do. ['Boy Meets
Boy'] is too risqué for a broadcast network or for many cable networks. We wanted to be a bit more daring and controversial. I thought
this was a clever idea, a way to make a little noise for the channel.' — Bravo executive Jeff Gaspin on the network's new reality series
in which a gay contestant, James, spends eight days dating 15 men, some of whom are secretly straight, before choosing one as a
suitor. If his choice is gay, James wins $20,000. If his choice is straight, the suitor wins $20,000. Gaspin spoke to the Philadelphia
Inquirer May 28.
'I get offered the big parts and people tell me I'm a movie star. That didn't happen before I came out. I was leading a secret life,
hiding and lying about something that was central to my nature. Now I have nothing to hide. Acting is no longer about lying. It's now
about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.' — Sir Ian McKellen to Britain's The Times, May
20.
'I'm conservative about money. I really do believe in a balanced budget, but I'm appalled by the president's incredible fiscal
irresponsibility. And I'm liberal about social issues. I believe in civil rights for all members of minority [groups], including gay and
lesbian people. I believe in health care for all Americans—every single other industrialized country in the world has it. We need to get
out of this backwards thing that we're in.' — Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean to the Seattle weekly newspaper The
Stranger.
'I believe that, as we did in Vermont, the nation will overcome its fear of gay and lesbian people, and that one day, soon, gay and
lesbian people will be treated equally. When you run for president, lots of wonderful things happen. One of the most extraordinary
things that happened to me in this campaign was when I gave a speech in Washington, and a guy came up afterwards —he was
about 80—and said, 'Governor, I want to thank you for signing the civil-unions bill.' I was taken aback. ... I said, 'Oh, do you have
someone in your family who's gay?' And he said, 'I'm a veteran, I was on a beach in Normandy, a lot of my friends were killed on D-
day, and I'm gay.' And I thought to myself, if there was ever a reason to sign a civil-unions bill, if a guy is willing to go on a beach in
Normandy in defense of his country, this guy deserves legal rights under the law when he gets home.' — Dean to The Stranger.
'Once, having HIV was so awful that HIVers pretty much got a pass. They weren't long for this earth, so why burden them with
uncomfortable truths, criticism and appeals to responsible behavior? Like, 'It's immoral to pass the virus on.'' — Syndicated gay writer
Dan Savage in POZ magazine, June issue.
