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Published Thursday, 09-Oct-2003 in issue 824
“Suddenly it crossed over and it became much more commercial, and now you can find gay at Target.”
Actress Sandra Bernhard on the VH1 program “Totally Gay.”
“I keep looking around for someone, anyone to say something, anything about the incessant bile about gay and lesbian people that is spewed forth daily by some of the world’s so called spiritual leaders. I keep looking around for someone to finally say: ‘Enough! This has got to stop.’ And what I see when I turn around is a bunch of folks who have taken a step to the rear. Sadly and shockingly our major gay political groups are the most conspicuous in their silence.”
David Lee, co-creator of TV’s “Frasier,” accepting an award at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s Leadership Awards Sept. 28 in Los Angeles.
“Congress long ago limited the ability of gay and lesbian couples to be full participants in American society, but the proposed constitutional amendment makes previous measures look tame. The proposed constitutional amendment would be the legal equivalent of a nuclear bomb. It would wipe out every single law protecting gay and lesbian families and other unmarried couples.”
ACLU Legislative Counsel Christopher Anders.
“Europeans are so much more open to nudity than Americans, it makes sense to me that Schwarzenegger, as a European, would pose nude and have it be no big deal. Robert did not have sex with Arnold, though. He had sex with a lot of his models, but not with him.”
Jack Fritscher, ex-lover of the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, confirming to PlanetOut.com that Mapplethorpe did take nude photos of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Fritscher said he has sold some of them on eBay.
“Out lesbian Ellen DeGeneres is having fun on her new talk show, but she’s coming off completely sexless (unless you count her saying Brad Pitt is perfect and acting a bit smitten with Justin Timberlake). It’s like the early days of Rosie all over again! I totally understand that Ellen was the world’s first pet lesbo — a same-sex guinea pig, in a way — and as such, she suffered all kinds of disdain, but I’d hoped that by now, she’d be able to sapphically rise above all that and not do an Anne Heche.”
— Village Voice columnist Michael Musto.
“It is so disheartening to see the state of romantic affairs on ‘Will & Grace’.... The show has become increasingly reliant on Hollywood star power to compensate for the fact the show has lost its edge and is well on its way to becoming an anachronism. This year, Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino guest-stars as the ex-girlfriend of both perennially celibate Will and Leo, Grace’s new husband. Mira’s a great actress — but she’s no compensation to audiences and critics who are tired of asking, ‘So when is Will going to get some?’”
John Sonego of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
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