'Gay men hate stupid girls that move slow, but hetero men like them to flirt. Also, gay men hate waiting in lines, and they do not like it when the item they go to the store for is not available; hetero men will say 'OK' and walk out.' — Actress Jennifer Coolidge ( Legally Blonde, Joey ) to The Advocate, Oct. 26.
'I know that many of you wanted to see my husband and some of you had questions out there. Is he hot? Yeah. Is he hung? Yeah. Is he ( she waved her hand to suggest bisexual ) ? Not unless you can give a better ( she mimicked eating a banana ) than me.' — Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom, filling in for her husband, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, addressing a fundraiser for New York's gay Empire State Pride Agenda, Oct. 21.
'I flinched when he [ John Kerry ] said she [ Mary Cheney ] was a lesbian. ... I think that in today's culture the word 'lesbian' still sounds kind of, well, dirty to some people. [ It ] does sound, to some ears, as a sex-word. ... This is some of the reason a lot of people were turned off by the comment.' — D.C. activist John Aravosis on his e-mail list THE LIST, Oct. 21.
'I think the opponents of gay marriage really fall into two categories. A small group of people just don't like gay people. If you don't like one, you don't like two. It's geometric. The larger percentage are people who are generally supportive of equal rights, as they have been in Massachusetts, but hear these predictions that it's going to be socially very chaotic, and they figure, why take the chance?' — Gay U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., to the Wellesley [ Mass. ] Townsman, Oct. 21.
'We've had, now, five months of same-sex marriage [ in Massachusetts ] , and I do not think any heterosexual has noticed—unless they live next door to two lesbians and they had to buy them a present.' — Gay U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., to the Wellesley [ Mass. ] Townsman, Oct. 21.
'I'm upset that gays can't get married. It's unfair. Plus, it's an insult to women. Marriage is only for procreation? Really? What about the woman who wants to get married and not have kids? Should they not get married either?' — Yoko Ono to Cox News Service, Oct. 30. Ono's reworded-to-include-gays dance remix of her and John Lennon's 1980 song 'Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him' is at No. 1 on the dance charts.
'I'm really singing this for the heterosexual community. The gays already know what I'm singing about. I'm trying to educate the straights. Until we realize that we're all one people, entitled to the same things, we're not going to move forward. ... One day it [ same-sex marriage ] will happen anyway. Heterosexuals aren't getting married at the rate they used to. If the churches want to stay in business, they'll have to begin marrying gay people.' — Yoko Ono to Cox News Service.
'I don't want to escalate it because I like Madonna. She's been to my house for dinner. It was something that was said in the heat of the moment, and probably should not have been said. Would I apologize to her if I saw her? Yeah, because I don't want to hurt any artist's feelings. It was my fault. I instigated the whole thing. But it applies to all those bloody teenage singers.' — Elton John, apologizing Oct. 28 in Entertainment Weekly for having said of Madonna on Oct. 3: 'Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay £75 to see them should be shot. Madonna best fucking live act? Fuck off. Since when has lip-synching been live? That's me off her fucking Christmas card list, but do I give a toss? No.'
' [ Bush voters are ] self-righteous, gun-totin', military lovin', sister marryin', abortion-hatin', gay-loathin', foreigner-despisin', non-passport ownin' rednecks who believe God gave America the biggest Dick in the world so it could urinate on the rest of us and make their land 'free and strong.'' — Brian Reade writing in London's Mirror, Nov. 4.
'The gay and lesbian community needs to focus less on Washington, D.C., Hollywood and Manhattan and more on the American heartland and the South. Like it or not, Michael Moore, Bruce Springsteen, and Rosie O'Donnell will never convince the Iowa farmer, the South Carolina veteran, or the West Virginia coal miner to be on our side. Much more important than increasing attendance at all our organizations' expensive black-tie dinners is the work we should be doing hosting rural barbecues and town hall meetings for honest discussions with people who disagree with us.' — Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director Patrick Guerriero in a Nov. 8 statement.
'The most obvious lesson from Sodom is that when you're attacked by an angry mob, the holy thing to do is to offer up your virgin daughters.' — Columnist Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, Oct. 23.
'A plain reading of the Book of Leviticus is that male anal sex is every bit as bad as other practices that the text condemns, like wearing a polyester-and-cotton shirt ( Leviticus 19:19 ) .' — Nicholas Kristof.
'Jesus never said a word about gays, while he explicitly advised a wealthy man to give away all his assets and arguably warned against bank accounts ( 'do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth' ) . Likewise, Jesus praises those who make themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven, but conservative Christians rarely lead the way with self-castration.' — Kristof.
'Paul disapproves of marriage except for the sex-obsessed, saying that it is best 'to remain unmarried as I am.' So if we're going to cherry-pick biblical phrases and ignore the central message of love, then perhaps we should just ban marriage altogether?' — Kristof.