Pictured Amazing Race contestants Alex Ali, left, and Lynn Warren at their June 1 wedding in Ottawa, Canada. Wockner News photo by Shaun Longstreet
'Bush hates press conferences because he can't speak extemporaneously and can't form a complete sentence without mashing up the language like a 5-year-old on Ritalin and can't express a nuanced multifaceted idea to save his life and somewhere deep down in his bowels, he knows it, and he knows we know it, and it makes him mumble and stutter and secretly pray every moment to his angry righteous God he could be somewhere else, anywhere else, like sittin' on the back porch in Texas eatin' ribs and dreamin' 'bout baseball.' — SFGate.com columnist Mark Morford, June 3.
'It's great to come to a place where people celebrate love.' — Alex Ali, a contestant on the most-recent season of TV's The Amazing Race, after marrying his boyfriend, Lynn Warren, in Ottawa, Canada, June 1. Eight of Canada's 13 provinces and territories have legalized same-sex marriage. There are no residency requirements or, except in Quebec, waiting periods.
'Getting married is much more thrilling than The Amazing Race because the prize at the end is true love, and a happy life ever after.' — Lynn Warren, a contestant on the most-recent season of TV's The Amazing Race, after marrying his boyfriend, Alex Ali, in Ottawa, Canada, June 1.
'Two conservative religious groups have targeted Kraft, the food giant, and Harris Bank for their contributions of $25,000 each to the 2006 Gay Games, which will be held in Chicago. The American Family Association and the Illinois Family Institute spurred the protest against Kraft and Harris. Randy Sharp, director of special projects for the AFA, said the corporations were sponsoring 'unnatural acts.' ... Neither company withdrew its contribution and Mayor Richard Daley promptly renewed the city's support of the event. The firms and the mayor deserve credit for not buckling to this. ... So let's call this campaign by the American Family Association and Illinois Family Institute what it is: Pure intolerance, an intolerance that most Americans reject. If these groups were looking for a gay event to protest, they couldn't have picked a more inoffensive one. The games are a weeklong amateur athletic contest with about 12,000 participants from 70 countries. The games are open to anyone—including straights, old and young, mothers and daughters. ... The kind of intolerance practiced by the AFA and IFI is, happily, fading in America. ... America has become a more tolerant place at work ... and at play.' — Chicago Tribune editorial June 9.
'First, that bottom boy—that stupid, stupid faggot—can't 'definitely' know that he's negative. He could have been infected too recently for his last HIV test to come back positive. And judging from his behavior—inviting multiple strangers over to fuck him and then begging them to come in his ass—odds are good that he's carrying around a number of other STDs even if he isn't HIV-positive. Second, you say the other top 'looked very positive.' I don't want to give my readers the impression that HIV-positive guys all look a certain way. There are already too many gay guys out there eyeballing guys, deciding they look 'clean,' and then engaging in unprotected sex. Listen up, you stupid, stupid faggots: Not all positive guys 'look' positive. If that were the case, only batshit-crazy 'bugchasers' would ever get infected. However: Some poz guys on meds suffer from physical side effects that are instantly recognizable—primarily 'facial wasting,' or lipoatrophy, i.e., deep grooves where their cheekbones used to be. Third, hooking up with strangers for anonymous sex qualifies as 'unsafe play,' condoms or no condoms. For some guys the thrills of anonymous sex are worth the occasional STD or the small chance of being a victim of violent crime. But let's not be naive. Anonymous sex is risky sex.' — Openly gay sex advice columnist Dan Savage to a reader.
'When I wrote a couple of months ago that positive guys didn't have an absolute right to expose other people to HIV, guys wrote in to say that it was solely the bottom's responsibility to protect himself. We should all assume that each new sex partner is positive, they wrote, and if one guy lets another guy fuck him in the ass without a condom, he has no one but himself to blame if he gets infected. It's in the spirit of 'assume everyone is positive' that I believe you had the right—no, the responsibility—to share your assumption about the top's HIV status. After all, you would have only been assuming the guy is positive ( something we should all do ) , and by example encouraging the stupid, stupid bottom to make the same assumption.' — Openly gay sex advice columnist Dan Savage to a reader.