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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 20-Mar-2008 in issue 1056

“I really haven’t [ever kissed a woman]. And if I had, I’d have let you know. I’d have told you years ago.”

Oprah Winfrey on her TV show, Feb. 25.

“This is an election year and there’s a lot of talk about change. I think one thing we should change is hate. Check on who you’re voting for, and does that person really, truly believe that we are all equal under the law? And if you’re not sure, change your vote. We deserve better.”

Ellen DeGeneres on her TV talk show, Feb. 29.

“We are facing an uphill battle again in countries that you thought you’d crossed, you’d done that, you’ve covered that territory. Because people think, ‘Well, you know, even if I do get HIV, I’m going to be OK.’ They don’t realize the toxicity of the drugs they have to take. And I just think it’s so reprehensible, with the information available to them. But they do it and so we have to help them.”

Elton John to CBS News, Feb. 25.

“I’m in a fantastic relationship. It’s been about four years. I’m in love with [Christine Marinoni] because she’s her. If she were a man, would I be in love with her? I don’t know.”

“Sex and the City’s” Cynthia Nixon (Miranda) at a press event for the upcoming Sex and the City movie, according to New York’s Daily News, March 6.

“I’m really just a drag queen. I’m flamboyant, over the top. I have big hair and the clothes. Maybe that’s why I’m so popular with the gay community!”

Singer Patti LaBelle to Instinct magazine, March issue.

“[No] peering into someone else’s stall. ... No standing or climbing on fixtures. No sitting, kneeling or lying down on the floor. No sitting on fixtures not meant to be sat upon.”

Restrictions to be imposed in public toilets by a measure under consideration in the Minnetonka, Minn., City Council, which is unhappy that cruisers have turned a city park’s restroom into a tearoom, according to WCCO-TV. Violators would be charged with a misdemeanor and banned from all public toilets in the city for one year.

“I love to tell the story of the fact that a year ago we celebrated our 10th anniversary at the White House holiday party. And I got to say to the president of the United States: ‘Mr. President, I think you remember meeting my partner Lauren. It’s our anniversary tonight!’ To which he responded, ‘Well, how many years has it been?’ And we told him, ‘Ten years, Mr. President.’”

Openly lesbian U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., to the newsletter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, in the current issue of the undated publication.

“It’s fast approaching the end of the Bush era, 12 combined years of miserable, silver-spoon governorship by one of the lumpiest, dorkiest, least appealing clans of desperately shrill powermongers in the world, Barb and Jeb and George and George Jr., Laura and Barb Jr. and Jenna and beer bongs and fake IDs and old coke habits and running AWOL from the Air National Guard and it’s all felt like a particularly insufferable episode of ‘The Beverly Hillbillies,’ wherein the Clampetts go to Washington and screw three generations out of any sense of hope or environmental protections while getting the world to despise us for everything we used to stand for. Wacky!”

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford, Feb. 22.