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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 26-Jun-2003 in issue 809

“I would be nowhere without the gay and lesbian community ... because of Psycho Beach Party! And In and Out, and every single project I’ve been in has a gay following, which I am so grateful for. And it’s always an exciting experience for me to walk around West Hollywood. I feel like Cher.... It’s funny, people always say, ‘Some of my best friends are gay.’ ... All of my friends are gay! I’m the only one.... I’m married — to a guy. I’m, like, the weirdo.”

— Actress Lauren Ambrose, Claire Fisher on “Six Feet Under,” to Chicago’s Windy City Times, June 4.

“Back in the day, we worked for Divadom or Divaship — whatever you want to call it. Now it’s not something that’s earned, it’s something that everyone gives a title to. If you can generate some sales, you’re a diva. And it doesn’t matter if you can really sing or not.”

— Singer Jennifer Holliday to D.C.’s Metro Weekly, June 5.

“I love this man. We’re not allowed to get married in this world.... But I’d like to declare in front of all these people [that] I love you and I’d like to live with you the rest of my life.”

— Marc Shaiman to his lover Scott Wittman as the couple accepted the best-score Tony award for Hairspray, June 8.

“I would have been a born-again Christian at a younger age.”

— Disco diva Gloria Gaynor when asked June 9 by Gay.com, “If you could do it all again, what would you do differently?”

“At Avis, domestic partners are automatically included as additional drivers. No extra fees charged. No questions asked. That’s been our policy for the past 10 years. So, why have we waited so long to tell you? Well, let’s just say we came out in our own time.”

— From a full-page ad by the Avis rental-car company in the July issue of Out magazine.

“Someone showed me an episode of ‘Six Feet Under’ where the mother is admitting to her gay son that, when she was his age, ‘I had a thing for Jane Fonda.’ So I called up my agent and said, talk to the producer and tell him to write a cameo for me to come on as her lesbian fantasy. That was seven months ago. I haven’t heard a thing.”

— Jane Fonda to the San Diego Union-Tribune, June 11.

“Being gay and transgendered ... are two very different things, and holding gay rights hostage to social acceptance of transsexuals and crossdressers is not only politically stupid, but morally wrong.... Gay rights legislation will address many, if not all, of the trans movement’s goals; not the other way around.”

— Chris Crain, executive editor of the Washington Blade, New York Blade, Southern Voice and Houston Voice, in a June 6 editorial.