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Published Thursday, 06-Mar-2008 in issue 1054
“I think the gay community has grown up and evolved. There’s a new driver and vehicle to explore and a wider spectrum of existence not focused only on coming out – it’s a more expansive culture that is accepting of transgendered people, bisexuals and others. Remember when we used to hate bisexuals? I think society is more open about sexual orientation in general. Look at Larry Craig or the whole Catholic Church scandal. It’s not all black and white anymore; even in the gay and lesbian community there is a spectrum. And that’s very heartening.”
Singer k.d. lang to the lesbian glossy Curve, March issue.
“Don’t you find it to be horrendous that we have a president of the United States of America that’s sat up on his, I don’t know what you want to call it, his throne that he thinks it is, and said that gay couples shouldn’t be allowed to marry? That’s insane.”
Lorna Luft, Judy Garland’s daughter, to London’s Pink Paper, Jan. 24.
“I don’t know this for a fact but I would bet my life that this is what happened: They went to [U.S. Rep.] Barney Frank and said, ‘What do we need to pass ENDA?’ Rep. Frank, who has always been pretty squeamish on the trans issue – and I guess I can say these things because I am leaving my job – you know, said, ‘Look, the best way to pass ENDA, and the easiest way is to: Let’s take out gender identity.’ And I don’t think the [House] speaker’s people thought this through – didn’t think it through – and then they said, ‘OK, let’s do it.’”
Outgoing National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive Director Matt Foreman discussing last year’s GLBT-community war over the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on Sirius Satellite Radio’s OutQ channel, Feb. 12.
“Matt Foreman, who announced January 23 that he would be resigning as executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, was many things during his five years at the top of one of the country’s preeminent gay rights organizations. He was an outspoken opponent of the war in Iraq. He fought against privatizing Social Security. He stood foursquare against the erosion of abortion rights. But what any of these issues have to do with lobbying for gay rights – presumably Foreman’s job description – is beyond me. His job description, though, was the problem. Foreman, after all, is just a symptom of the larger problem with NGLTF: It’s a garden-variety liberal interest group posing as a gay rights organization.”
James Kirchick, an assistant editor of The New Republic, writing at Advocate.com, Feb. 5.
“Not since Janet Jackson’s fake tit popped out of her whore outfit and destroyed a whole generation has there been such a televised outrage! In case you haven’t heard, Jane Fonda ignored all civilized codes of decency on the Today show this morning and proved herself to be the syphilitic heathen I’ve always known her to be! In discussing The Vagina Monologues with a suitably mortified Meredith Vieira, Jane slipped out the vilest, most barbaric emission since she announced that she was Hanoi Jane. She said a word that is so coarsely repellent I can’t even bring myself to repeat it for fear it will corrupt my own millions of impressionable fans and turn them into unpaid sex workers! You see, the J-word said the c-word and this little f-word was absolutely … thrilled, actually! Bless you, Jane! I love the fact that you said cunt on national TV. Let’s hope this becomes cunt-agious and all the other Oscar winners start spouting it too. Come on, Helen Mirren, say it! Say ‘cunt’! Say ‘cunt’!!!!!!”
Gay Village Voice columnist Michael Musto on his blog, Feb. 14.
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