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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 26-Aug-2004 in issue 870

“I’ve got a small ass. Everything was moved up front.”

— Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. to The Advocate in the Aug. 17 issue

“You know, people have said to me, well, if you’re gay, you can’t inherit because – and you don’t get the exemption from income tax. Well, my answer there is get rid of the inheritance tax forever, the death tax, which I’m trying to do. And there are ways to make sure gays have got rights. And you can do so in the law.”

— George W. Bush speaking out in favor of gay-rights laws on CNN’s Larry King Live, Aug. 12

“I just want you to know, President Bush, I want you to know how hard I’ve been working for you here in California. I’ve been organizing Republicans for Bush-Cheney. I’ve been organizing Austrian-born bodybuilders for Bush-Cheney. I have been even organizing girlie men for Bush-Cheney.”

— Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger addressing Bush at a fundraiser in Santa Monica, Calif., Aug. 12

“The first thing LGBT people need to do is make sure that George W. Bush is sent back to Crawford for a permanent vacation. Because as long as Bush and his fellow fanatics are in office and pandering to the president’s Christian conservative base, the civil rights of the LGBT community, and indeed of all Americans, are clearly in jeopardy. So you’ve got to make sure that you and everyone you know is registered and that they all turn out in November to vote.”

— Journalist Arianna Huffington to Los Angeles' Lesbian News, August issue

“Image is everything in this White House, and the image of George Bush as a noble and infallible warrior in the service of his nation must be fanatically maintained, because behind the image lies ... nothing? As Jonathan Alter of Newsweek has pointed out, Bush has ‘never fully inhabited’ the presidency. Bush apologists can smilingly excuse his malapropisms and vagueness as the plainspokenness of a man of action, but watching Bush flounder when attempting to communicate extemporaneously, one is left with the impression that he is ineloquent not because he can’t speak but because he doesn’t bother to think.”

— Ron Reagan, son of Ronald Reagan, writing in Esquire, September issue

“We’re both opposed to gay marriage and believe that states should be allowed to decide this question.”

— Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards expressing support for Missouri’s voter-enacted constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Aug. 6.

“I’m not gonna bullshit you – if my son, Jackson, was gay, would I hate him? No. Would I be a little disappointed? I would say yes. Would I still love him nonetheless? Yes.”

— Filmmaker Spike Lee to The Advocate in the Aug. 17 issue

“If Kerry wins and the Democrats don’t take the House, yeah, I’m going to run for the Senate.”

— Gay U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., to Newsweek, July 21