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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 29-Apr-2004 in issue 853

“Greeks are interesting because the men don’t necessarily feel that having a gay experience – or gay experiences – mark them. Not that there isn’t homophobia in Greece. There is. But there seems to be also another kind of thinking that a man is not diminished because he has had – or continues to have from time to time – homosexual experiences. It’s interesting.”

— Actress Olympia Dukakis to Washington, D.C.’s Metro Weekly, April 1

“Current civil union legislation doesn’t go far enough in protecting equal rights. We must not deny gay families many of the benefits that help keep families strong – Social Security, pensions, veterans’ support, inheritance, the right to take unpaid leave to care for a spouse – the list goes on and on.”

— Barbra Streisand, receiving the Human Rights Campaign’s Humanitarian Award, March 6

“I don’t care if people think I’m gay. Gender is of no consequence to me. It’s a person’s brain that counts.”

— “The L Word” actress Mia Kirshner (Jenny) to The New York Times, April 5

“I looked at the dynamics of the women I’ve known in L.A., and tried to cut a broad swath through that community. And I think that I look forward to getting beyond that community, too. Because our L.A. lesbian community is very specific – kind of anthropologically specific. But that’s where it begins for me – because those are my stories, and those are the ones I’m starting out telling.”

— “The L Word” creator Ilene Chaiken to PlanetOut.com, April 8

“People [who watch TV] believe we are all single, rich white males ... and are all good at interior decorating. We need a more realistic portrayal of our lives.”

— National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Executive Director Matt Foreman speaking at Johns Hopkins University, April 7

“It’s never going to happen. I haven’t squeezed into our costumes for years.”

— Abba’s Bjorn Ulvaeus on why the Swedish ’70s supergroup will never get back together, to Britain's Sun, April 9

“I said: ‘I’m a gay man. Amy and I don’t live together, we don’t love each other, we don’t want to have babies, I have a partner at home and a kid, can Amy and I get a marriage license even though you know it’s a sham, a joke and we are not serious about each other?’ The clerk said, ‘Yes, of course, because you are a man and a woman.’ The sanctity of marriage is all about a matched set of genitals. ... We are going to try and stay married for about 55 hours and 10 minutes. We are going to just best Britney Spears.”

— Syndicated gay columnist Dan Savage, editor of the Seattle alternative weekly The Stranger, following his April 9 marriage to lesbian Stranger reporter Amy Jennigs, to KLEW-TV

“The far right is so determined. They are constantly talking about gay people. They are more obsessed about gay people than we are.”

— Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director Patrick Guerriero to The New York Times, April 11