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Published Thursday, 02-Apr-2009 in issue 1110
“It is a question we all must ask ourselves: Am I a top or a bottom? I have posed this question to myself many a time and find difficulty settling on an answer. However, now that I have started seeing someone – a man – I know I need to find a clear and decisive answer.”
“Oh, no (I don’t think homosexuality is a choice). I don’t think I’ve ever really subscribed to that view, that you can turn it on and off like a water tap. Um, you know, I think that there’s a whole lot that goes into the makeup of an individual that, uh, you just can’t simply say, oh, like, ‘Tomorrow morning I’m gonna stop being gay.’ It’s like saying, ‘Tomorrow morning I’m gonna stop being black.’ ... I mean, I think that’s the prevailing view at this point, and I know that there’s some out there who think that you can absolutely make that choice. And maybe some people have. I don’t know, I can’t say. Until we can give a definitive answer one way or the other, I think we should respect that.”
“It’s such a personal thing, and I don’t think it does anybody any good to out people or force them out of the closet. I don’t see the point. It can still be very difficult in this business, so I’m sympathetic to that. You hear rumors and gossip, but nobody really knows except that person, and it’s ultimately up to them. Now, there are times when the press goes easier on or is more forgiving of someone, and I say, ‘How come he got a free pass?’”
“Yes, I’m like the homosexual Oracle of Delphi. They all come to ask my advice (on whether to come out)! No, nobody’s coming to ask my advice. It would be hard to give a young actor advice on that. Yes, I think it’s the right thing to do and the healthy thing for everyone, but it’s also a business, and there are those considerations.”
“Even were the public still in the mood for fiery invective about family values, the G.O.P. has long since lost any authority to lead the charge. The current Democratic president and his family are exemplars of precisely the Eisenhower-era squareness – albeit refurbished by feminism – that the Republicans often preached but rarely practiced. Obama actually walks the walk. As the former Bush speechwriter David Frum recently wrote, the new president is an ‘apparently devoted husband and father’ whose worst vice is ‘an occasional cigarette.’”
“Believe me, I think motherhood would be amazing and exciting and wonderful, but it isn’t really something that’s on the immediate horizon for us. How this IVF rumor started, I really, really have no idea. But I can tell you that it is definitely not happening in the near future. ... It’s great that Ellen (DeGeneres) and I are a gay couple and people are open-minded enough to talk about us having a family. The only thing I’m trying to avoid by denying it is, I just don’t want those horrible pictures in magazines where they circle your stomach and point and go ‘baby bump!’”
“I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.”
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