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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 17-Jun-2010 in issue 1173

“(Our federal case against Prop 8) is the most compelling, emotionally moving, important case that I have been involved in in my entire life.”

Lawyer Ted Olson as quoted in the Washington Post, June 14.

“For the most part, if you don’t care about getting married, you’re not part of a bi-national couple, no one’s threatened to kill or bully you or your family, and you’re not afraid of being outed at home or on your job — life as an LGBT second-class citizen is no big deal.”

Veteran Los Angeles lesbian journalist Karen Ocamb on her lgbtpov.com blog, June 6.

“(Obama) treats gay media the way he’s treating the gay community. He’s keeping us at a stiff arm’s distance, not saying to go away or leave me alone, but to stand back over there at some distance. ‘I’m going to do what I can for you. I am not against you. I know you have needs. [Still,] I’ll come to you when I want to say something.’”

Syndicated LGBT press writer Lisa Keen to the gay press newsletter Press Pass Q, June 10.

“It is important to say that under Rehoboth law this was not against the law. In this case, they had male genitalia; therefore, they are not guilty of a crime.”

Rehoboth Beach, Del., Police Chief Keith Banks after beach lifeguards reportedly asked transgendered people to cover their breasts, to The News Journal, June 3.

“It’s so easy to hear the negative and not the positive, especially if you make the mistake of looking at the Internet, where everybody whines and bitches about everything. So one of the things that I’ve been working on in the past couple months in particular is to really focus on positivity and really just enjoy myself and enjoy what I do.”

Singer Adam Lambert to the gay magazine Frontiers IN L.A., June 2.

“(T)here is a growing body of research that supports the notion that homophobia in some men could be a reaction to their own homosexual impulses. Many heterosexual men see this, and they don’t want to be associated with it. It’s like being antigay is becoming the old gay. Not cool.”

New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow writing June 4 about a new Gallup Poll which found, in Blow’s words, that “over the past four years, the percentage of men ages 18 to 49 who perceived (gay/lesbian) ‘relations’ as morally acceptable rose by 48 percent, and among men over 50, it rose by 26 percent.”

“The very fact that we don’t get played on the radio in the U.S., and yet all these people come to see us because we have a reputation for putting on a good show, is incredible to me. It’s quite a feat on the part of the fans and on our part, I think.”

Openly gay Erasure singer Andy Bell to Windy City Times, June 2.

“If we’re going to (use ‘LGBT’ to) list everyone who falls under the penumbra, then list everyone — break the Ts into multiple categories, add the queer and questioning youth and everyone else until the acronym is 50 letters long. Why stop at 4? (Many people don’t — the new thing is to call us LGBTQ.) If we’re all one community, then we don’t need to keep adding letters to divide us. And for that matter, who decided that we’d go from GLBT to LGBT a few years ago? And why put L first?”

AMERICAblog’s John Aravosis, June 1.