Pictured Coby and James from Survivor on CBS.
'The idea that marriage-like rights without marriage is adequate smacks of a concept long rejected by the courts: separate but equal.' — San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer striking down California's ban on same-sex marriage March 14. The ruling will be appealed to a higher court. California already has a domestic-partnership law that grants registered same-sex couples 99 percent of state-level matrimonial rights and obligations.
'I support it [ gay marriage ] because we're asking for the same thing. If I have a partner and something happens to me, I want that partner to enjoy the benefits of what we have reaped together. It's a civil-rights thing, isn't it? ... It's like African-Americans. We were not allowed to go through certain doors because of our race, our color. Jews were not allowed to buy property.' — Singer Eartha Kitt to the Seattle Gay News, Feb. 11.
'I feel terrible having my butt whupped by a homosexual, you know, but a lot of gay folks are strong, man. They all workin' out at the gym and all, you know. Damn.' — Survivor contestant James Miller, a steelworker from Mobile, Ala., on the March 10 episode, after losing a physical duel with openly gay contestant Coby Archa, a hairdresser from Athens, Texas, who knocked him off a raft.
'You know how hard it is to meet gay guys who are into sports? I have season tickets to the Lakers, and none of my friends ever want to go with me. They're like, 'Is there a half-time show?' No. 'Then no, we don't want to go.'' — Comic ANT of VH1's Celebrity Fit Club to the St. Louis gay newspaper The Vital Voice, Feb. 25.
'There have been several guys in a situation where their houses were so disgusting that we really wanted to turn around and leave. ... I mean, there was one guy on Staten Island whose feet were so smelly that the whole apartment smelled terrible. Thom [ Felicia ] literally made the guy take off his shoes and scrub his feet off in a bucket of water outside the door before we could continue. I mean, it was just disgusting. And, with the exception of Carson, we're not a bunch of girly-girls here. I'm sorry, it was gross!' — Queer Eye for the Straight Guy's Ted Allen to the Pittsburgh gay newspaper Out, March issue.
'I've never had one [ a gay sexual experience ] , let alone enjoyed one. I don't mind a finger up the arse if they're testing my prostate. If it keeps me alive, they can stick a 10-ton truck up my jacksie. But that's where I draw the line.' — Rocker Ozzy Osbourne when asked by the British music magazine Uncut, 'Have you ever enjoyed a homosexual experience?' in the March issue.
'They tell me now that SpongeBob is gay. SquarePants is not gay. TightPants maybe. SpongeBob HotPants? You go, girl! What about Donald Duck? Sailor top, no pants. Hello? Bugs Bunny. More dresses than J. Edgar Hoover at Mardi Gras. Hello?' — Comedian Robin Williams at the Academy Awards, Feb. 27.
'I think I know what Bush meant now when he said he had a mandate. ... Isn't it sort of obvious that [ Jeff Gannon ] had a boyfriend in the White House? Somebody at the highest level was spilling the beans while he was spilling the beans.' — TV's Bill Maher in reference to the White-House-press-corps/Jeff-Gannon scandal, on the Feb. 18 Real Time with Bill Maher.
'I do not understand, having covered the White House for as long as I did, how he got ... a press pass on a false name, on an alias. I don't know how that happened. You have to be cleared through the Secret Service in order to get a press pass, which you have to wear at all times. I mean, there's something behind this story that hasn't come out, clearly. Clearly! Duh!' — Journalist Lesley Stahl in reference to the White-House-press-corps/Jeff-Gannon scandal, on TV's Real Time with Bill Maher, Feb. 18.
'We want marriage. That's the front of the bus. The Democrats want to give us civil unions. That's the back of the bus. The Republicans want to give us nothing. That's off the bus. And the far right wants us under the bus.' — Veteran lesbian activist Robin Tyler to the Washington Blade, March 4.
' [ O ] n his arrival in Springfield, Ill., as a young aspiring lawyer, [ Abraham ] Lincoln met one Joshua Speed at the local general store and immediately agreed to share a bed with him for lodging. Not so unusual in the rustic heartland of those days. But Lincoln and Speed shared their bed for four years. He couldn't find anywhere else to sleep? Every historian acknowledges their emotional bond. What kind of bond was it? When Speed eventually told Lincoln that he was leaving town, Lincoln had a complete nervous breakdown. 'I am now the most miserable man living,' Lincoln wrote at the time. 'Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forbode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.' Does that sound to you like the reaction to a good friend moving on in life or to a true love affair denied and crushed?' — Andrew Sullivan writing in The Advocate, March 1.
