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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 13-Nov-2003 in issue 829

“This is one straight guy who wouldn’t let those ‘Queer Eye’ guys anywhere near him. I could use their help; I just couldn’t stand all their yapping.”

— Columnist Steve Blow, Dallas Morning News, Oct. 12.

“I do think he’s [George W. Bush] beatable. Because the public is finally waking up to what’s been going on since day one, since he issued his first executive-privilege gag order. This is a government that is not operating openly and honestly and truthfully. And as Martin Luther King said, ‘Truth crushed to the earth will rise again.’”

— Barbra Streisand to The Advocate, Oct. 18.

“The [Catholic] church [now] has gone beyond its doctrinal opposition to emotional or sexual relationships between gay men and lesbians to an outspoken and increasingly shrill campaign against them. Gay relationships were described by the Vatican earlier this year as ‘evil.’ Gay couples who bring up children were described as committing the equivalent of ‘violence’ against their own offspring.... For the first time in my own life, I find myself unable to go to Mass.”

— Gay Catholic journalist Andrew Sullivan writing in The New York Times, Oct. 19.

“You don’t get more with honey than vinegar. The [HIV] infection rates are again rising. There should be ACT UPs beyond belief.”

— Veteran gay activist and author Larry Kramer speaking at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Oct. 7 as quoted by the Michigan gay newspaper Between The Lines, Oct. 16.

“The current pope ... will send emissaries to terrorists, he will meet with a man who tried to assassinate him. But he has not and will not meet with openly gay Catholics. They are, to him, beneath dialogue. His message is unmistakable. Gay people are the last of the untouchables. We can exist in the church only by silence, by bearing false witness to who we are.”

— Gay Catholic journalist Andrew Sullivan writing in The New York Times, Oct. 19.

“The bear phenomenon is real and strong and one of the most hopeful cultural trends in gay life right now. But among many younger gay men, the bear thing still resonates with prejudiced notions of fat, older guys, who are rationalizing their own unattractiveness. The gyms and bars are still full of the feminized, shaved, plucked, exfoliated creatures that dominate the fashion ads. On ‘Queer Eye,’ the Fab Five have recommended that even straight guys trim, shave or remove what makes them sexy.”

— Gay writer Andrew Sullivan in New York City’s H/X, Oct. 16.

“I think it should be called Queen Eye for the Straight Guy. They’re just queens! They’re funny but to me it has such limited appeal.... How long can you sustain that joke? But I think it is popular because straight women get a kick out of watching their boyfriends get humiliated; and these guys are saying exactly what they think, but they can’t say to their boyfriends because their boyfriends would leave them.”

— Actor, writer and Hollywood Square Bruce Vilanch to Boston’s Bay Windows, Oct. 9.