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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 03-Jun-2004 in issue 858

“I feel overwhelmed. I feel ready to collapse. ... I’m shaking so much, I’m really ready to faint.”

- Marcia Hams who, with wife Susan Shepherd, received the first fully sanctioned marriage license given to a same-sex couple in the United States, in Cambridge, Mass., May 17

“I am very proud to be mayor of the city on this particular day. We have broken down another barrier. That is what life is all about – breaking down barriers and making this an open society for everyone to live in, to cherish each other and to have a great life.”

- Boston Mayor Tom Menino as he escorted same-sex couples into Boston City Hall to buy their marriage licenses May 17

“The sacred institution of marriage should not be redefined by a few activist judges. All Americans have a right to be heard in this debate. I called on the Congress to pass, and to send to the states for ratification, an amendment to our Constitution defining and protecting marriage as a union of a man and a woman as husband and wife. The need for that amendment is still urgent, and I repeat that call today.”

- George W. Bush as Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to let same-sex couples marry, May 17

“It’s not something I would want to do. I think it’s more an attempt to assimilate. I don’t know why we have to marry in order to get equality. To me it is a human-rights issue. I believe people should be able to bless their relationships any way they choose. This idea that if we can just achieve marital rights then we’re gonna be free is a delusion. Because I can assure you right now, we will never be like straight people!”

- Boy George to the Houston Voice, April 30

“I hear they’re registered at Bed, Bath and Bend Over.”

- Host Jay Leno joking on “The Tonight Show” May 13 about the same-sex marriage of the Village People cowboy, Randy Jones

“I’m a Canadian, and I can’t vote. But I’m very active in terms of how global an impact the United States has. Of course, I’m a Democrat, and I may be supporting John Kerry down the line somewhere.”

- Lesbian singer k.d. lang to the Dallas Voice, May 14

“I have had, and probably will still have, a pretty exotic lifestyle. ... I am probably more heterosexual than I am homosexual, or even bisexual.”

- Singer Deborah Harry (Blondie) to the British lesbian magazine Diva, June issue