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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 15-Jan-2004 in issue 838

“Heterosexuals still uneasy with same-sex marriage often ask, ‘Why marriage? Why can’t you have all the rights and benefits and just call it something else?’ Our answer is simple: Because then it would be something else.”

— Syndicated columnist Deb Price who recently married her wife, Joyce Murdoch, in Canada, in her Dec. 22 column.

“It’s like watching five little gay boys take revenge on the straight world for all the humiliations they suffered in grade school.”

— Columnist Brent Ledger on “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” in Vancouver’s Xtra! West, Dec. 11.

“Queer Nation and queer theory have morphed into “Queer As Folk” and “Queer Eye For The Straight Guy.” We’re no longer angry and political. We just have relationships and decorate. Queer has lost its original edge, transformed into a respectable inclusive word for gay. Progress? Hard to say, really.”

— Brenda Cossman writing in the Toronto gay newspaper Xtra!, Dec. 25.

“President Bush can get downright cryptic when he talks out of both sides of his mouth. Example: His position on whether gay families should be recognized as legitimate and whether gay partners should have the same legal rights as heterosexual married couples. The president says that he would support a constitutional amendment that would restrict marriage to a union between a man and a woman, but he has also said that states should be free to sanction what ‘legal arrangements’ they will. Huh?”

— Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial, Dec. 29.

“When Air National Guard absentee George W. Bush dressed up in [Tom] Cruise’s Top Gun costume and used the USS Abraham Lincoln as a giant, nuclear-powered strap-on, that was as brazen an exhibition of cross-dressing as there’s ever been.”

— Author Mark Simpson, who invented the word metrosexual, writing at Salon.com, Jan. 5.

“The Republican Party seems eager to run against me because of my role in enactment of this historic [Vermont civil-unions] law. I welcome that debate. I can’t wait to ask the President of the United States ... to repudiate the GOP-authored Defense of Marriage Act, an unconstitutional, mean-spirited law that stoked fears of homosexuality.”

— Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean on his website.

“In the early days, yes, there was pressure not to [come out], from them [the other Kids in the Hall] and outside, especially when we were going to be on television. Most people said I was crazy and they were right, but I did it anyways. But now, no. No one gives a shit.”

— Scott Thompson of “Kids in the Hall” to St. Louis’ The Vital Voice, Dec. 26.

“It’s increasingly difficult to get folks in the gay and lesbian community riled up about anything, let alone take to the streets. We are increasingly content to stay home, watch ourselves be represented on television and argue about its accuracy. Personally, I can’t stand the lesbians on ‘Queer As Folk.’”

— Brenda Cossman writing in the Toronto gay newspaper Xtra!, Dec. 25.