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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 08-Apr-2004 in issue 850

“Thomas Herndon wrote on March 6 that allowing same-sex marriage would ‘further erode the moral fabric of America.’ I have been in a same-sex relationship for 28 years. The sacredness of this relationship has taught me to open my heart to love and my mind to truth and maturity. Learning to love another person more than myself has been an astonishing liberation. Where is the immorality in this? I have a hunch that Christ would be pleased.”

— Actor Richard Chamberlain (Dr. Kildare) in a letter to the Honolulu Advertiser, March 18

“Every Democratic candidate for president who has a chance to win the nomination took the same position, namely, ‘I’m against same-sex marriage, I’m for strong civil unions.’ I wish I thought it were possible for someone to be explicitly for same-sex marriage and get elected president. I think that will probably be the case four years from now. That is not the case now.”

— Gay. U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., to Los Angeles City Beat, March 19

“Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union. A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.”

— Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., in a March 23 speech at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

“Did you know it’s no longer correct to say gay or lesbigay or even GLBT? It’s now GLBTQ, the latter for ‘questioning.’ Questioning, my left testicle. I say it’s BLT and to hell with it.”

— New Joy of Gay Sex author Felice Picano to Canada’s Capital Xtra!, Jan. 15

“I hear Mary Cheney is creating a new line of walk-in closets with revolving doors.”

— Openly lesbian California Board of Equalization chairwoman Carole Migden, as quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, March 22

“That’s not the image we want.”

— Gale McGovern, community outreach coordinator for the New Paltz [N.Y.] Equality Initiative, after Darrell Martin of Dublin, N.H., pulled down his pants and mooned a group of antigay protesters picketing his wedding, according to the Kingston Daily Freeman, March 23. Martin was arrested for public lewdness and released on $100 bail.

“I’m sure some people will criticize me for coming out so late. To them, I say simply, I wasn’t ready until now. If gay rights is about anything, it should be about letting people come out on their own timetable and on their own terms.”

— LPGA golfer Rosie Jones writing in The New York Times, March 20

“The fundamentalist Christians and the Catholic Church and the Republicans and the Bob Jones University assholes and the Fox media guys, they’re not fun to hang around with. They’re mean, and you can’t have a normal conversation with them. So why bother?”

— Hal Sparks (Michael), of “Queer As Folk”, to The Advocate, March 30

“I do consider myself omnisexual. ... I cannot really say that I will only always be with women or I will only always be with men.”

— Singer Sophie B. Hawkins to the Palm Springs gay magazine The Bottom Line, March 19