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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 27-May-2010 in issue 1170

“I think we could (accept same-sex marriage). I think it’s also a generational thing that will come, I think.”

Laura Bush to CNN’s Larry King, May 11.

“Christine (Marinoni) would probably kill me for saying this, but my daughter said one time that if you really had to break this down, (it looks like) she would be butch and I would be femme ... but really once you get to know us it’s really the opposite.”

Openly lesbian Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon (Miranda) to The Advocate, June 2010 issue.

“I ... stubbornly go about my life the way I always did, and sometimes it’s not the smartest thing to do. I’m in places people wouldn’t expect to see me, like on the subway or in line at the post office. So they just sort of feel like I look like that person, but I’m probably not that person. I was standing on line making a deposit at the bank recently, and the teller was looking at me, and looking at my name, and she said, ‘You know you have the same name as that woman on “Sex and the City”?’”

Openly lesbian Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon (Miranda) to The Advocate, June 2010 issue.

“I joined two hookup sites and posted my profile on both of them. I get a lot of views, but I get no takers. Only a couple of old ACT UP members wrote to say they recognized me.”

Veteran activist Larry Kramer to South Florida Gay News, May 2.

“There is a straight-to-gay conversion group: It’s called Liza Minnelli. You date her, you start flouncing around in a boa singing Lady Gaga songs.”

Village Voice columnist Michael Musto to host Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, May 11.

“Every gay person who knows the truth about closeted antigay politicians has a responsibility to speak up, as (blogger) Mike Rogers does so fearlessly. This is no longer an issue that is debatable. No one’s privacy deserves respect when that person is working against our rights, and none of us should be complicit in keeping the secrets of these detestable individuals.”

SiriusXM host Michelangelo Signorile – who, in the late ’80s was credited with inventing “outing” – writing in the June 2010 issue of The Advocate.

“It (the police attack) was like a group of wild dogs.”

One of 40 people who violated a city ban and staged the first gay Pride parade in Minsk, Belarus, on May 15. The unauthorized parade was violently broken up by police forces. Two marchers required medical attention.

“I’ve never run so fast in my life. After we ran away from the anti-riot police, (activist) Ira Fet and I took refuge in the small room of a VIP building where they keep the trash. We stayed there for 20 minutes while I was receiving calls from media outlets.”

Russian gay leader Nikolai Alekseev, one of 40 people who violated a city ban and staged the first gay Pride parade in Minsk, Belarus, on May 15. The unauthorized parade was violently broken up by police forces. Two marchers required medical attention.