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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 04-Mar-2004 in issue 845

“I leave that to the states and the courts – whether you call it a marriage or not, I leave up to the states and churches and synagogues and mosques.”

— Presidential candidate Wesley Clark in response to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Feb. 4 determination that the state must allow marriage for gays and lesbians, not merely create gay and lesbian civil unions.

“No self-respecting gay person will be able to support President Bush if he wages war on the most basic civil right by the most devastating means possible: a constitutional amendment [to ban marriage for gays and lesbians].”

— Conservative author Andrew Sullivan at AndrewSullivan.com, Feb. 5.

“Two women is way sexier than two men in bed. We have a better feel for our bodies. I’m no virgin. I love experimenting with my sexuality. ... All this ‘do not touch’ nonsense is not me.”

— Pop singer Christina Aguilera to Britain’s The Sun, Feb. 5.

“I love the thought of someone in Nebraska or wherever watching and realizing that they’re not that different from anyone else. I wanted the weight on my shoulders to represent the gay community. I’d be kicking myself right now if I wasn’t a part of this.”

— “The L Word” actress Leisha Hailey to The Advocate, Feb. 17.

“We didn’t want it to be the gay show, and it’s not.”

— Openly gay actor Christopher Sieber who plays Simon on the ABC-TV sitcom “It’s All Relative”, to Florida’s Contax Guide, Jan. 29.

“When the show has aired, we haven’t heard anything from anyone about when Philip and Simon kiss. Or in the pilot episode – in the end we were shown in bed together. That’s great. I love that we’re flying under the radar.”

— Openly gay actor Christopher Sieber who plays Simon on the ABC-TV sitcom “It’s All Relative”, to Florida’s Contax Guide, Jan. 29.

“Gay liberation is about having anonymous sex in parks, not because you’re married and afraid to have gay sex anywhere else, but because it’s fun and you happened to meet some cutie in the park. Gay liberation is about glory holes. About fucking in the toilet of a lesbian bar. I’m not saying everyone must do these things. Sex in bathrooms turns me off, personally. But gay liberation questions social conditioning, pushes the straights ... into thinking about their own hang-ups and helping to create a very different world. About turning conventional morality on its head. About forcing people to refuse to judge based on sexual morality.”

— 365Gay.com columnist Eleanor Brown, Feb. 11.

“I performed for Howard Dean about a month and a half ago, and I really loved him. So I’m very disappointed he fucked it up. ... It’s over. He’s finished. He lost his cool. He’s too reactive and he blew it. He has terrible Scorpio anger and he hasn’t learned how to harness it yet. So this will be a great spiritual lesson for him.”

— Bisexual comedian Sandra Bernhard to the Portland, Ore., newspaper Just Out, Feb. 6.

“It’s like ‘Sex and the City’ – it’s crap but you can’t help but watch it.”

— Comedian Sandra Bernhard commenting on Showtime’s “The L Word”, to the Portland, Ore., newspaper Just Out, Feb. 6.