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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 12-Jul-2007 in issue 1020

“I don’t know why somebody else’s marriage has anything to do with me. I’m completely comfortable with gay marriage.”

Elizabeth Edwards, wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, speaking at the kick-off event for San Francisco Pride, June 24

“It’s not the only thing we disagree about. She actually says what she thinks. A lot of people I love and care about feel the same way Elizabeth does. … I’m very strong about ending discrimination against gay and lesbian couples. But I’m not quite where Elizabeth is yet.”

John Edwards appearing with his wife on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” June 25

“The differences between the Democratic and Republican fields of candidates on [GLBT] issues are shockingly stark and profoundly depressing. Over time, the majority of Americans have moved to support basic fairness for LGBT Americans, including nondiscrimination and hate crimes laws, repeal of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,’ and protections for our families. Sadly, the Republican field has gone in the opposite direction, still clearly pandering to the venom of the so-called ‘religious right.’ This only means that they will continue to use our lives as cultural wedge fodder whenever it’s deemed politically expedient.”

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force executive director Matt Foreman in a June 27 statement

“I was looking through second-hand [record] stores and things that were uncharted territory, at least for me. So then I landed on country music and really started to get a vision for cow punk, and fell in love with Patsy Cline, and sort of had an image of how I could approach country with a very liberal, gay, vegetarian point of view.”

Lesbian singer k.d. lang to Chicago’s Windy City Times, June 20

“You can have a loving relationship despite an age difference. … I think the Greeks understood it well, and so did the gay community. Back in the ’70s, the gay community featured older, hairy guys in gay porn all the time. During the AIDS crisis, everything we saw, in advertising and porn, suddenly became young and clean.”

Christopher Turner, 35, husband of author Armistead Maupin, 62, to the San Francisco Chronicle, June 17

“We were all amphetamine thin with long dirty hair and hip huggers and funny black boots that zipped up the side and denim cowboy shirts with pearlescent pressure-pop buttons. We didn’t have big showboat muscles or lots of attitude. We didn’t look very healthy, but we were healthy—this was 12 years before AIDS was first heard of, and all we got was the clap. We had that a lot, maybe once a month, since no one but paranoid married men used condoms.”

Gay author Edmund White writing about 1969 and the Stonewall Inn in the Pride issue of the Seattle weekly The Stranger, June 20

“Travel is over. Traveling to America, I can’t think of anything worse. This is the year I unveil my new no-planes policy. … Before 9/11, airports were my favorite place in the world. Now, they are just where you see the mess of the world, the worst side of authority, with swaggering security people telling all the wrong people to take their belts off. It’s just not a good feeling any more.”

Gay actor Rupert Everett to Scotland’s Sunday Herald, June 24