Pictured San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Photo by Rex Wockner
'I wish I was gay; I'm straight. I'd be having the time of my life.' — San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to this column, April 11 at the University of California at San Diego.
'I have to admit that as a Mormon, I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman ... and a woman, and a woman.' — Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who has ferociously opposed same-sex marriage, speaking at a St. Patrick's Day breakfast March 20 in Boston, according to the Associated Press.
'I did it [ got a dyke haircut ] as a 'fuck you' [ to the company I was fighting with over my magazine ] . 'You think you can scare me with your corporate suit? C'mere. You don't know what I've lived through. Watch this. I'll shave my fuckin' hair off. Want to call me a dyke? I'll be a bigger dyke than you could ever see.'' — Rosie O'Donnell to the Boston gay newspaper Bay Windows, March 10.
'I was out to every single human I knew in my life. Including my entire staff in every movie I ever did. No one ever in my life did I tell that I was not gay. I never ever, ever, ever was in the closet and it pissed me off when people said that. ... Yeah, I never said it, because it was an afternoon talk show in 1995. That's why I never said it.' — O'Donnell to Bay Windows.
'I've been up-front with guys about my [ HIV-positive ] status. They're still like, 'It's fine [ not to use a rubber. ] ' But I don't advocate barebacking. It's fine with a consenting partner, but not if you're going out and screwing willy-nilly.' — Singer Andy Bell of Erasure to POZ magazine, April issue.
'I think back in grade school I had a crush on Bobby Sherman. I remember hanging out with my cousin and she had a Bobby Sherman album and I'd think, 'God, man. He's hot!'' — Gay porn star Colton Ford to the Palm Springs gay magazine Pulp, March 11.
'A huge chunk of BushCo's voting bloc is evangelical or born-again Christian. Millions of otherwise decent and sincere Americans who actually believe the Bible as literal word-for-word truth, verbatim, no questions asked, not metaphor and not parable and not lovely set of nice, same-as-every-other-religion mythologies by which we set our moral compasses, but a set of actual facts told in cautionary dramedy, like a silly locust-ridden reality-TV show. Extreme Jesus: Apocalypse Edition.' — SFGate.com columnist Mark Morford, March 24.
' [ I ] n this day of traditional family values and so on, this man that we follow [ Jesus ] was single as far as we know; who traveled with a bunch of men, although there were lots of women around; who had a disciple who was known as 'the one whom Jesus loved'; who said my family is not my mother and father, my family are those who do the will of God. ... Those who would posit the nuclear family as the be-all and end-all of God's creation probably don't find that much in the Gospels to support that.' — Openly gay New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson as quoted in the New Hampshire Union Leader, April 5.
'From the start, I've always admired Eminem's thinking. That's the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I was asked, despite all the nonsense talked about his being homophobic. Let the Boy Georges and the George Michaels of the world get up in a twist about it if they don't have the intelligence to see his intelligence.' — Elton John writing in Rolling Stone magazine, April 7.
'The epitome of a good old boy—a good-for-nothing old boy.' — Boy George on George W. Bush, to Britain's The Guardian, March 19.
'My ideal man, at the moment, would be Russian—emotionally cold, harboring a wicked sense of humor and liable to do anything if you give him enough vodka.' — Singer Boy George to London's Gay Times, April issue.
'Gay culture is much too shiny for me. Today I want to return to shame, to the days of surreptitious gay action in dark alleys.' — Singer Boy George to London's Gay Times.
'I basically was raised by two gay men, Ernie and Mort, who were best friends. When we didn't have a place to stay, we stayed with them.' — Singer Mariah Carey to the Miami gay newspaper The Weekly News, March 31.
