Pictured Bill Clinton.
'No, I'm not gay. I was nearly married a few years ago. And no, I'm not a right-wing Republican. I'm a conservative and want to pay less taxes. And I did vote Republican at the last election. But I'm more of a populist.' — Internet star Matt Drudge ( The Drudge Report ) to London's Sunday Times, April 17.
'Either this guy believes his party is not serious and is totally Machiavellian in its position [ on gay rights ] or, you know, as David Brock said in his great book Blinded by the Right, there's some sort of self-loathing or something.' — Bill Clinton on April 11 after key Republican political consultant Arthur Finkelstein married his boyfriend in Massachusetts. Finkelstein has helped a host of very antigay Republicans, including Jesse Helms.
'We are all merely waiting until the Big Battle happens in Israel, the bloody clash between the True Believers and the Antichrist Heathens, to be followed immediately by Jesus gliding down on gilded wings made of fine Egyptian cotton and cheap American flags and wearing kickass robes of fire and ready to suck the true believers up to heaven through a giant Crazy Straw and wipe the whole goddamn secular slate clean. Right?' — SFGate.com columnist Mark Morford, March 24.
'Maer Roshan, a writer ... he called me while my show was on and my magazine was about to be launched and he wanted me to be on the cover of their gay issue. My publicist said no. ... So then he wrote a whole article about how nobody would be on his magazine because we're all closet cases. I wanted to fucking kill this prick. I swear to God, I wanted to go to his little slimy office and go: 'Who the fuck are you, Maer Roshan? I'd like to arm wrestle you. Fucking twerp.' ... I wanted to kill him.' — Rosie O'Donnell to the Boston gay newspaper Bay Windows, March 10.
'Ian McKellen, you come out when you're 92 and you're going to cast blame at me? Fuck you and your Sir Knighthood. I was so pissed at him. And he sent me a letter, 'I hope you're all right,' ... and I thought, 'You know, sit and spin, fucking prick.' I'll never speak to him the rest of my life. I could give a shit about Ian McKellen, and his little judgment of everyone else. I really could. Who is he?' — Rosie O'Donnell to the Boston gay newspaper Bay Windows, March 10.
'Somebody who is possibly in the closet and uses their bully pulpit or their position to bash gay people or to make gay people's lives difficult ... and are in essence leading a double life—people like that need to be exposed for the hypocrite that they are. And I sometimes find that ... the people that you find who are hollering the loudest and who are putting people down the most are the ones that have the most to hide. They're so uncomfortable in their own skin that they have to tear everybody else down to make themselves feel good.' — Minnesota Republican state Sen. Paul Koering, who came out April 13, to RawStory.com, April 14.
'I was trying to explain last night to a non-Catholic just how dumb-struck many reformist Catholics are by the elevation of [ Joseph ] Ratzinger [ to pope ] . And then I found a way to explain. This is the religious equivalent of having had four terms of George W. Bush only to find that his successor as president is Karl Rove. Get it now?' — Gay journalist Andrew Sullivan at AndrewSullivan.com, April 19.
'I think the people here [ in Athens, Tex. ] are proud. I'm very happy with the response I've gotten. I wasn't sure being a flaming and bitchy queen would go over very well, but I've been very touched by the support. I think people kind of glaze over how I was so bitter at the end. I think people really feel like they got a chance to know me.' — Openly gay Survivor: Palau contestant Coby Archa to Advocate.com, April 20.
'People thought I wanted to be a woman. It was never about that. I was fucking with people's heads. And in the meantime, I realized I could make a lot of money doing it. Ultimately, I had to walk away from it. Most people don't get irony. People just saw the surface stuff. It becomes very tiring trying to educate the world.' — RuPaul to the Los Angeles gay publication In, May 2.
