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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 25-Mar-2004 in issue 848

“The Bush Administration wants to change the positive, inclusive direction of our Constitution by calling for an amendment that authorizes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Well, I say, no way.”

— Barbra Streisand, addressing a Human Rights Campaign dinner March 6 in Los Angeles.

“Gay people are chasing after all the things that straight people hate. We want to get married, we want to be in the military, we want to have children and these are all things that straight people are running from in droves.”

— Comedy writer and Hollywood Square Bruce Vilanch to St. Louis’ Vital Voice, Feb. 27.

“One very significant reason for the emergence of this issue [amending the constitution to ban same-sex marriage] and its endorsement by President Bush is that other Republican policies are in trouble. There is an enormous desire to deflect the public’s attention from massive job loss that is occurring, and the tragic loss of life of American servicemen and women in Iraq.”

— Openly gay U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., to the Associated Press, March 12.

“One of the most unpleasant aspects of this business is the extent of which private lives are intruded upon when these kinds of issues come up. I really have always considered my private – my daughters’ lives private, and I think that’s the way it ought to remain.”

— U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney to MSNBC, March 2. Cheney’s daughter, Mary, who works for his re-election campaign, is an open lesbian but has remained publicly silent on gay issues for the past several months.

“Each and every gay rights organization, at the state and federal level, should state clearly and publicly – and immediately – that we will renounce all support and work actively for the defeat of any elected official who supports amending a federal or state constitution to ban gay marriage.”

— Southern Voice Executive Editor Chris Crain in a Feb. 27 editorial.

“I ain’t into faggots. I don’t like gay people around me, because I’m not comfortable with what their thoughts are. I’m not prejudiced. I just don’t go with gay people and kick it – we don’t have that much in common. I’d rather hang out with a straight dude. But women who like women, that’s cool.”

— Rapper 50 Cent to Playboy, April issue.

“My career has never been stronger. There’s far more interest in me as an actor than when I was closeted.”

— Robert Gant, of “Queer As Folk”, in the April issue of Out.

“When people talk about how the stereotypes aren’t on [Showtime’s ‘The L Word’], those stereotypes are, like, from 30 years ago! We’re not actually doing them anymore. If they start getting into totally sexually ambiguous girly boys or tranny gals, then you’re getting the contemporary view.”

— Lesbian comedian Kate Clinton to the Windy City Times, Feb. 25.

“They [gays] kept me alive when I got into trouble with the Johnson administration. As long as they kept looking for my records and imitating me, then of course my name was always alive, so I'm very grateful to them.”

Eartha Kitt to the Miami gay newspaper The Weekly News, Feb. 12.

“I love the gay community. Naturally, having been in this business since I was 17, I came into contact with gay people very young in my life. To me they were always the most talented, the kindest; they have the most wicked senses of humor – I always felt comfortable. I was never threatened, ever, and I just embraced them and loved them.”

Brady Bunch mom Florence Henderson to the Miami gay newspaper The Weekly News, Feb. 26.

“False, vicious gossip that after thorough investigation by numerous media outlets have [sic] been found to be completely baseless.”

Robert Black, spokesman for Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry, responding to rumors that Perry’s wife Anita is planning to divorce him after finding him in bed with a man, to the Dallas Voice, March 12.