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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 27-May-2004 in issue 857

“All our ministrations – the gym workouts, the grooming products – haven’t produced the slightest advance in male beauty. In fact, by adding self-consciousness, one could argue that young-guy Abercrombie-ish photos today are in fact far less attractive. Nothing says sexy more strongly than a person who doesn't know it.”

— From an Out Magazine write-up on the new photo book At Ease: Navy Men of World War II, in the May issue

“Crystal meth is ravaging a lot of gay men’s lives. The gay press aren’t talking about it [nor] rising HIV rates and the onslaught of depression. [Instead] there’s this idea of wanting to be presentable to Oprah or something.”

— Singer Rufus Wainwright to Toronto’s Xtra!, April 15

“You can’t do this project and not go all the way. And it isn’t even in the graphicness of the sex or the language; it’s in the characters too – especially the character of Brian, who is so unapologetic, who is a gay character who has balls, who fucks, who takes drugs, who is not sick, and who doesn’t need to apologize. This is a character unlike commercial gay characters, who are either eunuchs or clowns.”

— “Queer As Folk” co-creator Daniel Lipman to 365Gay.com, April 23

“The word ‘queer’ has been transformed from a pejorative to a semi-snooty school of thought – in even casual conversation, ‘queer’ is likely to be followed by terms such as ‘cinema’ or ‘aesthetic’ or ‘studies.’”

— Reporter Mary McNamara writing in the Los Angeles Times, April 25

“I love doing those shows [in gay clubs] because you can do things like come out from a cocoon or in a gorilla suit. You can ride in on a horse and it’s all good. In a gay club it’s not important to act grown up.”

— Singer Cyndi Lauper to the Houston Voice, April 23

“I’d like to slap the bastards [parents who reject gay children]. I’d like to give ’em a slap. Pleeese. Come on! If your child comes to you and tells you this and you really have a problem with it and it becomes a real issue, you really don’t deserve to call yourself a parent. ... One of the reasons I think I’m becoming more vocal on this issue [gay marriage] is because I’m thinking anytime that Deborah and I are together it puts a face to this. That some kids who are out there, maybe struggling [will see] here’s the alderman’s daughter, the governor’s sister-in-law, and look at the relation they have.”

— Chicago Alderman Richard Mell, whose daughter is gay, to the Chicago Tribune, April 28. Another of Mell’s daughters is married to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who opposes same-sex marriage.