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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 04-Nov-2004 in issue 880

“No comment.”

Barry Manilow’s publicist, Jill Fritzo, when asked Oct. 12 if Manilow is openly gay. During his Oct. 7 concert at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, as he introduced a love-song duet he was about to sing with the male star of an upcoming Broadway musical Manilow has written, Manilow said, “Of course, we’re not going to sing it to each other – that would be creepy.” On Oct. 12, Manilow told this column: “I’m terribly sorry if I offended anyone. I meant it only as a joke about Brian [d’Arcy James] and me, and not as a reflection on anyone else. I strongly believe in and support equal rights and acceptance for everyone, and apologize if my joke came off to the contrary.”

“They even give cockroaches the rank of family now because they live under the same roof. If there’s a cat, a dog, two lesbians and everything living there, it’s a family. One of the great goals of the culture of death is destruction of the family.”

Vatican health secretary Javier Lozano Barragan speaking at the 48th International Eucharistic Congress, Oct. 12 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

“He is brain dead.”

U.S. Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on George W. Bush, in a speech at the UAW Local 435 union hall in Cranston Heights, Del., Oct. 19.

“Who would have dreamed anyone would ever feel nostalgia for anything Republican? But some of us remember when the party did not appear to be driven exclusively by ambition, meanness, and a breed you’d call swinish if pigs weren’t undeserving of the association.”

Gay playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) writing in The Advocate, Oct. 26.

“I’m not a believer in marriage. … for myself. Marriage is a concept constructed from the patriarchal Christian system. I’m a total advocate of civil rights and civil unions, and I think gay people should have the same legal rights as anyone, but I don’t believe in the whole church thing.”

Lesbian singer k.d. lang to the British lesbian magazine Diva, November issue.

“I have a tremendous respect for activists and the changes that they affect. But just by being exactly who we are and being visible, we are leading by example. And just by doing that, we can often be more powerful than being directly politically vocal.”

Carson Kressley of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” to the Houston Voice, Oct. 8.

“I open up each new script thinking, what humiliation will I face this week?”

Actor Scott Lowell, who plays Ted on “Queer As Folk”, to the Sydney Star Observer, Oct. 14.

“Mostly it’s bras. Sweaty bras. … We try to discourage that as much as possible, but it still happens.”

Lesbian singer Melissa Etheridge on things thrown at her on stage, to Curve magazine, November issue.

“George [W.] Bush ... is so bad on gay issues that even the Log Cabin Republicans (the main gay Republican group) are actively trying to undercut his re-election. If Log Cabin can’t tolerate this man, the rest of you have no excuse.”

D.C. activist John Aravosis on his email list THE LIST, Oct. 21.