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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 16-Aug-2007 in issue 1025

“You know when we lost everything, it was the gay people that came to my rescue and I will always love them for that.”

Tammy Faye (Bakker) Messner on TV’s “Larry King Live,” July 19. She died the following day, of lung cancer.

“It’s [lesbians] such an insular community – at least, it is in LA.

It’s so very small – really, that six degrees of separation thing where so many women have slept with so many others and all know each other.”

The L Word star Jennifer Beals to the British lesbian glossy Diva, August issue.

“I feel great about it [being a gay icon] because I feel that it’s a platform for my purpose, which is to bring the love and music of Christ to all of my fans. And because they trust me, I think, they know my music is honest and they believe me to be honest, and perhaps, because of that, they will follow where I’m leading. I want to lead them to Christ and what he has for them, not what I have for them. I have no hell for anyone to go to. I want to lead them to him, I want to lead them to truth. ... I want to lead them to Christ, simply, and whatever he has for them.”

Singer Gloria (“I Will Survive”) Gaynor to BBC Radio 4, July 13. The final sentence was a response to the question, “That doesn’t necessarily mean to you that you see homosexuality as something sinful?” Gaynor paused before answering the question.

“The gay community has been my constant supporter. I used to sing in wet bars at four a.m.—I am not even sure such bars exist anymore. Not only did they have respect for me but they also paid me well. I have had many, many setbacks, heartaches, losses and even though I have been very, very low I have never seen rock bottom and that is because when the rest of the world didn’t want anything to do with me, the gay community supported me, they literally kept me from a life on the streets. But for them I would not exist. They have been very faithful to me. God is faithful too. So it’s God and the gay community that have kept me here.”

Dreamgirls original Jennifer Holliday to Ohio’s Gay People’s Chronicle, June 22.

“[T]he fire chief is gay, the mayor has gay senior staff, a City Council member and a state senator are gay, a superior court judge is gay, the county’s district attorney and innumerable lesser officials: gay, gay, gay. Forget ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ In millennial San Diego, the motto these days is, ‘Who knows, who cares?’”

Writer Eric Wolff in the San Diego weekly newspaper CityBEAT, July 18.

“My only ask was that if his [Dick Cheney’s] daughter doubted my tolerance to her [lesbian] orientation that I would hope that he would help make it clear to Mary that this is a – I was just worried about – the reason I’d federalized the issue [of same-sex marriage] is because I was worried about the courts defining the issue and that we’d end up with de facto marriage that was not traditionally defined, I guess is the best way to put it.”

President George W. Bush to Weekly Standard writer Stephen F. Hayes in his new book Cheney: The Untold Story of America’s Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President, as reported by The New Republic, July 16.