Pictured Margaret Cho and Amanda Moore in Glamour.
'They tried to impeach Clinton for having an affair and, basically, George W. Bush is wrecking the world. He is making the entire world hate us. ... I think it's time to call for an impeachment.' — Self-described fag-hag comedian Margaret Cho to the Dallas Voice, June 11.
'Even though I don't like children, if I had to have one, it's got to be gay, or else I would kick 'em out. I would try to take him to therapy to make him not be straight.' — Margaret Cho to the Dallas Voice.
'They would come in the morning and use the women's bathrooms, but the women were annoyed, didn't like it or played pranks on them. The men teased them, chased them, and they came screaming and in tears again. We don't support their decision to be transvestites. We are just trying to solve the problems of one group that is unhappy at school. They don't get teased in the bathroom anymore. They're much happier.' — Posaporn Promprakai, registrar of Thailand's Chiang Mai Technology School, on the new bathroom for the school's 15 transvestite students, to the Associated Press, June 21.
'The overall thrust of this [Bush] administration is not my father's—these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people.' — Ron Reagan, Ronald Reagan's son, as quoted in The New York Times, June 14.
'When President Bush gave a speech on AIDS in Philadelphia on June 23, The New York Times got all moist because he mentioned the word 'condoms' just once in his speech. ... Here's what Bush actually said: 'We can learn from the experiences of other countries when it comes to a good program to prevent the spread of AIDS, like the nation of Uganda. They've started what they call the ABC approach to prevention of this deadly disease. That stands for Abstain, Be faithful in marriage, and, when appropriate, use Condoms.' Well ... they might have mentioned the censorious new anti-condom guidelines issued only the week before the speech, on June 16, by Bush's Centers for Disease Control, which reveal as a sham the election-year rhetoric mouthed by Bush in Philadelphia. The new CDC regulations, published in the Federal Register, are mandatory for any AIDS-fighting organization that receives federal money for HIV prevention, and they finish the job of gutting effective, disease-preventing safe-sex education that has been a goal of the Bush Administration since it took office. Far from trying to 'learn' from the Ugandans, the regs demand that any sex-ed 'content' include information on the 'lack of effectiveness of condom use.'' — The Nation magazine.
'And who gets to decide what sex-ed materials are 'suggestive' or 'obscene'? Under the new CDC regulations, decisions on which AIDS-prevention educational materials actually work will be taken away from those on the frontlines of combat against the epidemic and handed over to political appointees. This is done by requiring that Policy Review Panels, which each group engaged in HIV prevention must have, can no longer be appointed by the group—but must instead be named by state and local health departments. And those panels must then take a vote on every single flier or brochure or other 'content' before they are issued.' — The Nation.
'There's only one word to describe the effect of the new CDC guidelines: lethal. And Bush's campaign boilerplate on AIDS in Philadelphia was 'Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain' bilge. Too bad the Times didn't notice.' — The Nation.
'GO scrounging through the visual imagery that defines gay women in the popular imagination and the stereotypes are as predictable in their own way as Carson Kressley is in his, and a lot less goofy-cute. There is the Miss Jane Hathaway type in tweeds and brogues. There is the luggage-tanned Dinah Shore Golf Classic gal in a visor and pleated khaki shorts. There are the softball catcher with her cap turned backward and the clanking motorcycle mama in engineer's boots. And, of course, there is Rosie O'Donnell, in boxy suits that look like advertisements for a Big & Tall store. It was not long ago that the print and electronic media began registering the existence of so-called lipstick lesbians, and a phrase like 'lesbian fashion' stopped being an outright oxymoron. When the Showtime series The L Word began in January, it showed that ... lesbians are a powerful presence in fashion, in both predictable and unexpected ways.' — The New York Times.
'I have this theory that lesbians start certain fashion things. I used to go around Williamsburg and see guys wearing wifebeaters, wallet chains, gas station shirts and trucker hats, and I would think, 'We used to do that five years ago.' — Stephanie Perdomo, creator of a new collection of action figures called Dykedolls, to The New York Times.
'Just because I choose to love women and don't dress the part of a model doesn't mean that I'm not very good at what I do.' — Amanda Moore, one of the most successful of fashion models, to The New York Times. Moore is from Florida—she was a college basketball player, and her modeling career started when she took a neighbor to a scouting event and was discovered instead.
