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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 23-Sep-2004 in issue 874

“Don’t be a girlie man: Vote Republican. Don’t be a girlie man: Join the College Republicans.”

— Slogans on two T-shirts being sold by the California College Republicans at several universities, according to the Aug. 30 Oakland Tribune

“Maybe, just maybe, you don’t agree with this party on every single issue. I say to you tonight I believe that’s not only OK, that’s what’s great about this country. Here we can respectfully disagree and still be patriotic, still be American and still be good Republicans.”

— Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger addressing the Republican National Convention, Aug. 31

“My opponent recently announced that he’s the candidate of ‘conservative values’, which must have come as a surprise to a lot of his supporters. There’s some problems with this claim. If you say the heart and soul of America is found in Hollywood, I’m afraid you are not the candidate of conservative values. If you voted against the bipartisan Defense of Marriage Act, which President Clinton signed, you are not the candidate of conservative values.”

— President George W. Bush in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, Sept. 2

“I make of it that Mary is shoved back in the closet as viciously and strongly as the Cheney family could and the GOP could. I would be shocked if the Bush-Cheney campaign told Mary that she and Heather were absolutely A-OK on stage. Mary’s life partner that wears a gold wedding band along with Mary? There’s no way.”

— John Aravosis, founder of DearMary.com, after Vice President Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter Mary was the only member of the Cheney family not to appear on stage at the Republican National Convention following Dick Cheney’s Sept. 1 speech and George W. Bush’s Sept. 2 speech.

“There’s a certain line in the sand that you just can’t cross, and so it’s hard to look yourself in the face and say, ‘I’m a good foot soldier’ if somebody’s trying to amend the U.S. Constitution. ... The question for me is do I vote for President Bush, or not vote at all.”

— Bob Kabel, a gay D.C. delegate to the Republican National Convention, to this column, Sept. 1

“I was very much supported by the [GLBT] community when I first came out with my music – first in Venezuela and then worldwide. I guess because I’m a strong person, I don’t care what others say. I do what I believe is right for me because I respect others’ beliefs. [With] the kind of music that I perform, I did get a lot of respect and handholding from the community. It’s just like Cher!”

— Singer Maria Conchita Alonso to the Chicago GLBT people-of-color publication Identity, September issue

“I know black people and we’re homophobic. [Homosexuality is] taboo and you have these [‘down low’] men who sleep with other men, they get penetrated by other men, they penetrate other men, and they will swear on a stack of Bibles that they’re not gay. ... They can’t even fathom that they’d be seen as gay.”

— Filmmaker Spike Lee to the Chicago GLBT people-of-color publication Identity, September issue

“I have a close circle of friends, and they are my family. I’m not precluding meeting someone and if it worked out, great, but I don’t judge my life like that. ... Only young men are stupid enough to go out with someone because they are on the telly.”

— Comedy Central’s Graham Norton, 41, to The Scotsman, Sept. 8