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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 24-Jun-2010 in issue 1174

“He (Obama) interacts with us (gay media) when he needs us, when it’s politically expedient.”

—Washington Blade Editor Kevin Naff to the LGBT press newsletter Press Pass Q, June 10.

“I think ‘LGBT’ is a cop-out for straight people. Much easier for a politician to laud the LGBT community than the GAY community, because no one outside of the gay community knows what the LGBT community even is. ... In an effort to be more inclusive, we’ve shoved ourselves back into a sort of linguistic closet.”

—AMERICAblog’s John Aravosis, June 1.

“GLAAD used to have chapters where their watchdog volunteers were prized. GLAAD would both give out awards — which meant something seriously significant then — and protest either through a demonstration (‘Basic Instinct’) or with ads in the entertainment trade publications. (Nowadays,) other than their awards show and an occasional ‘call to action’ — usually after bloggers have stirred something up — they hold GLAAD It’s Friday fundraisers for what?”

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

“I do look at Obama as my president. I do look at the Democratic Party as the party I’m most aligned with. But I also don’t feel like we need to be enabling our own selves and so codependent that we’ll put up with anything. (U)ntil we begin to push in a way that says we’re not going to back down, I don’t believe we’re going to get what we want.”

—GetEQUAL co-chair Robin McGehee to lgbtpov.com, June 6.

“When all that stuff happened with the AMA awards and that whole controversy about me kissing that guy and grabbing the other dude — it’s funny because there was a generational divide within the gay community. There were some more conservative gays that were like: ‘You shouldn’t be doing that. You’re painting us in a bad light, making us look trashy.’ And I remember thinking to myself, as proud as I am to be a member of the gay and lesbian community, it’s not my job to paint a picture of the community. I’m only responsible for painting a picture of who I am as an individual.”

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

—AMERICAblog’s John Aravosis, June 1.

“That (Prop 8) sucker-punch was so startling, it created instant activists that started and joined scores of new activist groups, outraged and determined to fight for LGBT rights — slicing and dicing anyone who got in their way.”

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

“(C)urrent research reveals that the fastest-growing group along the sexuality continuum are men who self-identify as ‘mostly straight’ as opposed to labels like ‘straight,’ ‘gay’ or ‘bisexual.’ They acknowledge some level of attraction to other men even as they say that they probably wouldn’t act on it, but ... the right guy, the right day, a few beers and who knows.”

—New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow citing research by Prof. Ritch Savin-Williams, chairman of human development at Cornell University, June 4.