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Published Thursday, 11-Nov-2004 in issue 881
“I am at home recovering from my two surgeries [for breast cancer]. Wow, I didn’t see this coming. But the good news is they took out the tumor and a few lymph nodes, only one of which was positive...the centinal node (for those that know breast cancer speak). After that my margins are clean! I still have both of my breasts and whether I will keep them is a bridge I have to cross later. What an unexpected journey this is.... I will be entering the phase of chemotherapy next. Who knows what that will bring.”
Lesbian singer Melissa Etheridge in an Oct. 18 posting on her website.
“A plain reading of the Book of Leviticus is that male anal sex is every bit as bad as other practices that the text condemns, like wearing a polyester-and-cotton shirt (Leviticus 19:19).”
Columnist Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, Oct. 23.
“I know that many of you wanted to see my husband and some of you had questions out there. Is he hot? Yeah. Is he hung? Yeah. Is he [she waved her hand to suggest bisexual]? Not unless you can give a better [she mimicked eating a banana] than me.”
Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom, filling in for her husband, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, addressing a fundraiser for New York’s gay Empire State Pride Agenda, Oct. 21.
“We’ve had, now, five months of same-sex marriage [in Massachusetts], and I do not think any heterosexual has noticed – unless they live next door to two lesbians and they had to buy them a present.”
Gay U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., to the Wellesley, Mass. Townsman, Oct. 21.
“I don’t want to escalate it because I like Madonna. She’s been to my house for dinner. It was something that was said in the heat of the moment, and probably should not have been said. Would I apologize to her if I saw her? Yeah, because I don’t want to hurt any artist’s feelings. It was my fault. I instigated the whole thing. But it applies to all those bloody teenage singers.”
Elton John, apologizing Oct. 28 in Entertainment Weekly for having said of Madonna on Oct. 3: “Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay £75 to see them should be shot. Madonna best fucking live act? Fuck off. Since when has lip-synching been live? That’s me off her fucking Christmas card list, but do I give a toss? No.”
“I worry about same-sex marriage because it could be a slippery slope for us to start imitating heterosexuals. ... I just don’t know why people would want to, so desperately. I guess they want to be acknowledged, but I don’t know why they want to be acknowledged as part of an extremely questionable culture.”
Lily Tomlin to the Palm Springs gay magazine The Bottom Line, Oct. 29.
“[Bush voters are] self-righteous, gun-totin’, military lovin’, sister marryin’, abortion-hatin’, gay-loathin’, foreigner-despisin’, non-passport ownin’ rednecks who believe God gave America the biggest dick in the world so it could urinate on the rest of us and make their land ‘free and strong.’”
Brian Reade writing in London’s Mirror, Nov. 4.
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