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Published Thursday, 18-Mar-2004 in issue 847
“It [fame] does make it easier to have sex with way cute boys, boys that are out of my league, and it makes it harder to have a relationship. But I don’t really want a meaningful relationship right now, so what’s happening is fine. By the time I do want a meaningful relationship, the inappropriate young cute ones will all have pissed off and it’ll be me wanking over my Baftas with a three-legged blind dog surrounded by piles of old newspapers.”
— BBC and BBC America talk-show host Graham Norton to Britain’s The Guardian, Feb. 20
“Another guy that I sense is a funny bunny is that teen idol kid Clay Aiken. How does this guy flutter below the gaydar without being caught? He’s a cross between Howdy Doody and k.d. lang’s more feminine yet less attractive little sis.”
— Columnist Paulo Murillo in Los Angeles’ fab!, Feb. 27
“Here’s the denouement of the epic drama over gay marriage. It’s going to happen, it’s going to happen within a generation, and it’s going to happen even though George W. Bush teed off his re-election campaign this week by calling for a constitutional amendment to outlaw it. As the country has now had weeks to digest, it has already happened in bulk in San Francisco, where images of couples waiting all night in the rain to be wed finally wiped Janet Jackson off our TV screens. The first of those couples, Phyllis Lyon, 79, and Del Martin, 83, were celebrating a partnership of 51 years. Take that, heterosexual marriage! The most famous practitioner of mixed-sex nuptials this year, Britney Spears, partook of a Vegas marriage that clocked in at 55 hours.”
— Columnist Frank Rich, The New York Times, Feb. 29
“When Bushes get in trouble, they look around for a politically advantageous bogeyman. Lee Atwater tried to make Americans shudder over the prospect of Willie Horton arriving on their doorstep; and now Karl Rove wants Americans to shudder at the prospect of a lesbian – Dick Cheney’s daughter Mary, say – setting up housekeeping next door with her ‘wife.’”
— Columnist Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, Feb. 26
“We think it crosses the line of decency. We don’t support the harassment or attacking of family members, gay or straight, of elected officials.”
— Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director Patrick Guerriero denouncing DearMary.com – which wants U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney’s openly lesbian daughter Mary to speak out against the constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage – to The Washington Post, Feb. 24
“It's a desperate act by a desperate man who has lost control of the economy and job flight, the war on terrorism and the war he began in Iraq. ... It’s a very dark day in American history - when for the first time an American president has endorsed codifying discrimination in our most precious document.”
— California Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, on President Bush’s endorsement of a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, to the San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 24
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