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Published Thursday, 15-Nov-2007 in issue 1038
“I love being an American, but it’s sick that if I died tomorrow, 50 percent of my property would go to the government and the leftovers would go to Richard, whereas if we were a heterosexual couple, that wouldn’t happen.”
“I was supposed to play the [‘Sex and the City’] role of Miranda originally. I can’t imagine that showing up every week to play a character who is bitter, bitchy, eating cake out of trash cans, could have been in any way satisfying. I’ve never seen women relate to each other the way these four women talk to each other. It’s absurd and the number one problem is that those ladies are all too old to be running around doing what they are doing.”
“[I]n places like New York I think Pride is rather redundant, whereas in a place like Selma it’s just as scary to be out now as it was decades ago.”
“I did 210 weddings when I was mayor of New York City. So I have experience doing this. They were all men and women. I hope. You got to give me a little slack here. It was New York City, you know.”
“[S]qualid, anonymous toilet sex isn’t something most openly gay men engage in. It is, for the most part, the preferred mode of sexual expression for closeted gay and bisexual men. Cruisy toilets and parks, while frequented by some openly gay men (none of whom ever seem to get caught, however), are primarily patronized by straight-identified closet cases, married men, losers, and priests – hell, the existence of cruisy toilets and parks make it possible for many of these men to remain closeted. ... Unless the police are careful to avoid arresting men with rainbow stickers on their cars, the arrest records prove what most gay men know to be true: cruisy toilets and parks are for messy closet cases, not healthy, sexually adventurous gay dudes.”
“If groups such as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence spent half as much time criticizing Islam for its abuses against gay rights as they do Catholicism, then perhaps their attempts at activism might be seen as truly groundbreaking. As it is, their juvenile behavior is redolent of a son desperately rebelling against his father, a teenage girl telling her mother she hates her because she can’t stay out as late as she’d like, and other similarly adolescent expressions of fury. When we start seeing sex toys with Muhammad’s likeness on them being sold at the Folsom Street Fair or sisters infiltrating mosques in burqas, then perhaps we can call these activists and their supporters brave. Until then, perhaps it’s time for the sisters to grow up.”
“You want the word ‘marriage’ and I believe that the issue of marriage has become so entangled – the word ‘marriage’ has become so entangled with religion – that it makes more sense for me as president, with that authority, to talk about the civil rights that are conferred [with civil unions].”
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