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Published Thursday, 10-Jun-2004 in issue 859
“Bush is an incompetent leader. In fact, he’s not a leader. He’s a person who has no judgment, no experience and no knowledge of the subjects that he has to decide upon. ... The shallowness that he has brought to the office has not changed since he got there. ... The President’s capacity to lead has never been there. In order to lead, you have to have judgment. In order to have judgment, you have to have knowledge and experience. He has none.”
— House of Representatives Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California, to the San Francisco Chronicle, May 20
“I’ve signed Tampaxes a girl ripped out of her vagina once. I’ve signed colostomy bags. Just this week I’ve signed asses, dicks, tits.”
— Gay filmmaker John Waters to Boston’s Bay Windows, April 29
“We’re not a city in which any of the gay bars have windows.”
— Jeff Howells, editor of the Pittsburgh gay newspaper Out, to the Associated Press in a story about how Pittsburgh is not like “Queer As Folk’s” Pittsburgh, May 16
“He would sicken me actually – and bore me, really.”
— Queer As Folk actor Randy Harrison (Justin) on what it would be like to date a man like his TV lover Brian, to Miami’s The Weekly News, April 15
“My first great love was a woman. It was in high school, and I was at the tender age of 18. At that age, of course, our feelings are very raw and intense. I fell head over heels, helplessly in love with a teacher of mine. ... She did not want to have anything to do with me.”
— Queer As Folk actress Thea Gill (Lindsay) to Chicago’s Windy City Times, May 12
“Please remove from mailing list immediately.”
— President Bush’s AIDS czar, Dr. Tom Coburn, in a fax to Poz magazine after it celebrated its 10th anniversary this month with a cover photo of 80 nude HIV-positive people
“I have seen it [“Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”]. I don’t think I got it. I like the way straight people dress. ... That’s why they’re cute! We don’t want everyone to look like a namby-pamby poofter!”
— Boy George to the Houston Voice, April 30
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