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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 05-Jun-2003 in issue 806

“I find these tactics revolting and unforgivable. These attempts to spread rumors about me I think will backfire.... People can draw whatever conclusions they want to [about my sexuality]. There are certain things we shouldn’t discuss in public. Some people may think that’s old-fashioned, but I firmly believe it’s a good rule to live by.”

— U.S. Rep. Mark Foley (R-Florida), who is running for Senate, to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, May 22. On May 8, the Ft. Lauderdale weekly newspaper New Times Broward-Palm Beach reported: “[Mark] Foley, the nine-year conservative Republican U.S. representative out of Lake Worth, is gay. That is no revelation to political and media types. Everyone knows it….”

“[She will] bring witchcraft and goddess worship into the YWCA. [It will become] a federal cash cow for radical lesbians.”

— Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition, in response to the selection of former NOW president Patricia Ireland as chief executive of the YWCA, to Canada’s National Post, May 23. Ireland has openly had a husband and a girlfriend simultaneously.

“I know that a lot of people will watch this show who are not familiar with the gay community and start to reconsider their notions of identity, their own and other people’s. I’m really excited by that.”

— Jennifer “Flashdance” Beals, who stars in Showtime’s upcoming lesbian series “The L Word,” to Windy City Times, May 21.

“At no time has it been more important to have these [gay] shows on television, because we have such a right-wing administration. The propaganda of the media towards conservatism and the right wing is so powerful right now that we’re not given access to any kind of information about other people, including our own population….”

— Jennifer “Flashdance” Beals, who stars in Showtime’s upcoming lesbian series “The L Word,” to Windy City Times, May 21.

“I also want to teach Americans that there is an international leather community. It’s such a huge continent. So many Americans don’t even have passports. So I’ll be coming over here to try and educate you as much as taking something back to them [the Europeans].”

— International Mr. Leather 2003 John Pendal, from London, U.K., speaking in Chicago May 26 after winning his title.

“Several of the straight men have very intense experiences. We anticipate a lot of both gay and straight viewers will have their assumptions challenged about what it means to be gay and what it means to be straight.”

— Douglas Ross, executive producer and co-creator of the upcoming Bravo network TV series “Boy Meets Boy,” a gay-dating reality show that features an eligible man looking for love among a pool of 15 potential mates, some of whom are heterosexual men paid by the program to pretend to be gay, to Reuters, May 27.