'He's [ George W. Bush ] made America obsessed with violence. It's weird over here now. When you travel around, it's so stressful; they search your hat, your shoes, your computer, everything. They stop anyone who's ethnic or wearing interesting trousers, and they let a little old lady with 65 grams of heroin stuffed up her arse through. It's completely senseless.' — Singer Boy George to London's Gay Times, April issue.
'A right-wing gay man is like a vegetarian butcher.' — Singer Boy George as quoted in London's Gay Times, April issue.
'The number of blow jobs I've given in club toilets!' — Singer Andy Bell of Erasure to POZ magazine, April issue.
'Polls have shown that the country is divided roughly into thirds. One third are absolutely opposed to us, another third are right there with us. The middle third, they are different. They don't hate gay people. They're uncomfortable about homosexuality. They would rather not talk about it. We have answers to their questions, but we have to get them to ask the questions. Our challenge is to engage.' — Freedom to Marry Executive Director Evan Wolfson to the Michigan gay newspaper Between The Lines, April 21.
'The whole process of making a [ porn ] film is very mechanical and disjointed. Instead of following the sex, they move it according to the under shot, and now to the over shot and now move it over here. It's like you're making a mainstream film, just trying to get the right angles and shot rather than making the sex happen. ... I remember Chris Steele was fucking me and it was really hot, I mean REALLY felt good, and we were doing our thing and [ producer ] Chi Chi [ La Rue ] yells: 'Cut! We got it!' and I was like: 'Um, wait! Wait about another 15 minutes; this is really good!'' — Gay porn star Colton Ford to the Palm Springs gay magazine Pulp, March 11.
'If I were of frat boy age and had $100, would I opt for a [ typical Broadway Musical ] ... ticket or would I want to spend that on booze and drugs? Even I, and I am as gay as a pink leather piñata, would choose booze and drugs.' — Harvey Fierstein in a review of Spamalot in The NY Times, about the show, which is attracting crowds of young straight men ( because it is 'Broad, silly and overt comedy' ) .
'The issue arguably cost John Kerry the presidential election, and Kansas has just become the eighteenth state to constitutionally ban it, yet there are reasons to feel optimistic about the granting of full civil rights to people who have chosen a life partner of the same sex. Even as the heartland state was enshrining bigotry in its constitution, a bipartisan legislative majority in Connecticut this month approved same-sex civil unions—and, unlike the laws allowing same-sex marriage in Massachusetts and civil unions in Vermont, this one was not in response to a court order. More important, we continue to see public expressions of what I am calling the Finkelstein Phenomenon: The slow but inexorable societal acknowledgment that gay people are real people living real lives, not an abstraction or a subculture. And many of them are Republicans. Arthur Finkelstein, for example, is an enormously effective right-wing GOP political operative who revealed recently that in December he took advantage of the groundbreaking and much-maligned Massachusetts law to marry his longtime partner. When asked why, he cited 'visitation rights, healthcare benefits and other human relationship contracts.' Finkelstein, in the past, must have conveniently forgotten his own interests when he helped engineer the election of known conservative gay-bashers such as Jesse Helms. He represents—along with Dick Cheney's highly regarded lesbian daughter and the Log Cabin Republicans—yet another example for conservatives of how being gay is much more fundamental than a 'lifestyle choice.' In fact, it is just another manifestation of the human experience.' — Robert Scheer writing in The Nation.
'But as many whites learned in the post-segregation South, there is a far greater gain in learning to respect people who are 'different' and to live with them constructively. Although racial segregation was a 'traditional value' for most of this nation's existence, it was belatedly overturned as subversive of the values of a democratic society, as discrimination against gays will be. Integration was most ardently opposed by Southern white Baptist preachers who cited the Bible, and now we hear the same Scripture-based attacks on gay marriage.' — Robert Scheer.
