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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 05-Jul-2007 in issue 1019

“If they stay in the closet, they’re going to make a lot more money. I go to the same gym as Anderson Cooper. When I look at him lifting those 5-pound weights, it makes me think, ‘He’s just trying to live his life and be all that he can be.’ But he still goes to the gayest gym in New York.”

Singer Rufus Wainwright to Spin magazine, according to the New York Post, June 14.

“Fundamentalists say they are all for taking Bible stories literally.

Well, there is a long history of polygamy in the Jewish tradition and Bible tradition. Why do those people get to pick and choose which Bible readings they condone and which they don’t?”

Will Scheffer, openly gay co-creator of the HBO series “Big Love,” to the San Francisco Chronicle, June 10. Scheffer and co-creator Mark V. Olsen have been in a monogamous relationship for 16 years.

“Wonderful. I’m delighted that you have a family and you’re happy with your family. That’s the American way. … People can live their lives as they choose and children can be a great source of joy, as you know. And I welcome that. [But] marriage is an institution which is designed to bring a man and woman together to raise a child and … the ideal setting for society at large is where there is a male and a female are associated with the development and nurturing a child. … There are other ways to raise kids that’s fine: single moms, grandparents raising kids, gay couples raising kids. That’s the American way, to have people have their freedom of choice.”

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney at a June 6 event in New Hampshire,after lesbian mom Cynthia Fish accused him of invalidating gay families.

“For years I have been irked by the news media’s unwillingness or inability to ask intelligent and probing follow-up questions when politicians, political preachers or other newsmakers make woefully ignorant or mendacious statements about gays. If they refer to being gay as a choice, newspeople could ask … ‘Did you personally feel sexual desire for people of the same sex as strongly as you did for people of the opposite sex?’ or ‘When did you decide to feel sexual desire for women rather than men? Was that hard to decide?’ [W]hy isn’t GLAAD preparing a ‘Guide to Follow-Up Questions’ on gay marriage, gay military access, gay adoption and foster care, etc.?”

Chicago Free Press columnist Paul Varnell, June 13.

“It’s not a gay group. We were marketed and created for a wide range of audiences. The gay, Latin and black audiences were very supportive at first. We took elements from every aspect of the 70s but we were immediately adopted by and proffered up as representatives of the gay community.”

Village People cowboy Randy Jones to the Sydney Star Observer, May 31.

“I have a sister who is gay. How can you stand by and watch a family member treated badly? How long do you think you can sit and watch that?

Civil rights are a basic thing. My grandparents traveled across the water on some boat to find freedom – a fair shake for everybody. This is what we were raised to believe. Everybody is created equal. You can’t exclude people. How can you do that? Once you started doing stuff like that, then who’s next?”

Singer Cyndi Lauper explaining her involvement in gay activism.