'This is one straight guy who wouldn't let those Queer Eye guys anywhere near him. I could use their help. I just couldn't stand all their yapping.' — Columnist Steve Blow, Dallas Morning News, Oct. 12.
'[It's] like we've taken 20 steps back. You've got shows on TV like, 'Let's make straight people look more gay.' No, love, that's the whole point. We like them when they look like they can fix our radiators.' — Boy George to The Advocate, Oct. 28.
'Someone needs to stand up for beer bellies, Old Spice, Jimmy Kimmel and the great American breakfast of convenience-store hot dogs and coffee. ... My project is called Straight Eye for the Queer Guy, wherein we administer a little redneck rock, Budweiser, wings at Hooters and Monday Night Football to put a little butch back into an impossibly toned, Abercrombie & Fitch-clad, simply ab-fab Bourbon Street boy's life.' — New Orleans Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, Oct. 12.
'One of the reasons I live here is that I really feel like New York needs me right now. New York is not the center for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism —and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted.' — Gay singer Rufus Wainwright to Britain's The Observer, Oct. 12.
'I went blind at one point. I was constantly sweating. Every time I brushed my teeth I would spit up blood. By the end, I couldn't go an hour without weeping. I felt like I was in a museum, and life was the painting. I was looking at this beautiful painting, but I was not really in it. I was inconsolable.' — Gay singer Rufus Wainwright on his now-conquered crystal-meth addiction, to Britain's The Observer, Oct. 12.
'When I talk about it being a gay hell, every gay man knows exactly what I'm talking about. Yes, a lot of it was my own doing, but there is a drug-infested, sexually very promiscuous, very unsafe-sex part of gay life. It just can't be ignored.' — Gay singer Rufus Wainwright on his days of promiscuity and crystal meth, to Britain's The Observer, Oct. 12.
'The word was coined by a major closet case, William Henry III, a critic at Time magazine who is now deceased. He claimed that some gay journalists—yes, including yours truly—were doing this terrible new thing, revealing gay public figures' homosexuality, and he claimed that some gay activists had dubbed it 'outing.' The word stuck, though some of us hated its violent and special connotation—we preferred simply calling it reporting.' — Journalist Michelangelo Signorile writing in New York City's Gay City News, Oct. 16.
'Can you honestly believe what a total pack of retards the majority of the voting public in this state are for recalling our governor and replacing him with a womanizing body-builder movie star and fascist fucking asshole with no prior experience in a powerful political position except for his marriage to Maria Shriver?' — Columnist Don Baird in the gay newspaper San Francisco Bay Times, Oct. 16.
'There's no way Bush will be re-elected. He's the laughingstock of American politics. You cannot take him seriously. Nobody does. I doubt he can reverse that.' — Gay-focused comedian Margaret Cho to the Dallas Voice, Oct. 17.
'Though I'm going on nine years with my boyfriend, and I love him and I certainly don't want to give him up, I would feel rather constrained if we couldn't have other relationships outside our marriage.' — Veteran gay writer Edmund White to Vancouver's Xtra! West, Oct. 16.
'How many times have you read an online profile only to fall over laughing when you realize the young, hung, Adonis top you just read about is actually your chicken-hawking next door neighbor who lives with his mother and never met a leather daddy he didn't like?' — San Diego's Gay & Lesbian Times in an Oct. 23 editorial.
'I think it should be called Queen Eye for the Straight Guy. They're just queens! They're funny but to me it has such limited appeal. ... How long can you sustain that joke? But I think it is popular because straight women get a kick out of watching their boyfriends get humiliated; and these guys are saying exactly what they think, but they can't say to their boyfriends because their boyfriends would leave them.' — Actor, writer and Hollywood Square Bruce Vilanch to Boston's Bay Windows, Oct. 9.
