GLT » Quote UnQuote

commentary

Quote UnQuote

Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 11-Dec-2003 in issue 833

“I’ve had a boyfriend for 10 years. I’m deeply in love and in financial entanglement with my man.”

— Ted Allen of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” to the Village Voice, Nov. 17.

“It’s [my love life] almost nonexistent, but we’re working so hard.”

— Thom Filicia of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” to the Village Voice, Nov. 17.

“They [my parents] were, to put it mildly, not at all happy about me doing the show. Now they’re pissed off when we run reruns. They’re fans. My mom e-mailed me an Andrew Sullivan column about gay marriage, in favor of. And she was sending it around to her friends. It was a huge evolution. My mother was affected by the show in the same way that a lot of people seem to be.”

— Ted Allen of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” to the Chicago Tribune, Nov. 18.

“Working with Rosie, you couldn’t call it anything but an experience. I like the fact that she’s opinionated and larger than life.”

— Boy George to The New York Times, Nov. 13. Rosie O’Donnell is producing George’s new musical, Taboo.

“[It] has been like finding a missing sibling. He is an extraordinary man with extraordinary depth. I have seen his soul and it is one of the most beautiful I have ever seen.”

— Rosie O’Donnell on Boy George, to The New York Times, Nov. 13. She is producing Taboo, George’s new musical.

“I support civil unions so that gays and lesbians have equality and full rights under the law.... Currently, most of our laws extend rights and responsibilities to only heterosexual families and explicitly exclude same-sex couples from enjoying those same rights and responsibilities. It is in the best interest of our country to promote stable communities and families, this includes both heterosexual and same-sex families.... I believe same-sex couples deserve the same federal benefits, rights, privileges and responsibilities as opposite-sex couples.”

— Presidential candidate Wesley Clark in a Human Rights Campaign questionnaire, Nov. 12.

“The [Kinsey scale] ones and twos have of course always been around, but in the past 10 years, their time may have finally come, as their ‘incidentally homosexual’ side has a new forum in which to emerge. These are guys who’d rarely if ever thought about coming on to other men in a steam room, let alone ventured into a gay bar. If not for the Web, which many of them with whom I’ve chatted say facilitated their ‘first time,’ a lot of these men believe they’d not have ever done it with another guy — and they have no plans of ever coming out as gay or even as ‘bi.’”

— Columnist Michelangelo Signorile, New York Press, Nov. 11.

“The destination, the work we’ve done, the support, and the sex appeal of Montreal.”

— Louise Roy, CEO of the Montréal 2006 organizing committee, on why the city will have a successful gay games even after splitting with the Federation of Gay Games. The federation may stage a competing, officially sanctioned event in the U.S.

“When Sir Ian McKellen was lobbying then Home Secretary Michael Howard about the controversial Section 28, which forbids the promotion of homosexuality in schools, Mr. Howard asked for the actor’s autograph for his children. With a smile on his face, but with his lobbying having failed, McKellen says he wrote: ‘Fuck off, I’m gay.’“

— BBC News, Nov. 14.