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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 02-Dec-2004 in issue 884

“I have a brother and a sister who are gay. And they always were, they didn’t switch or change or anything. They always were like that. They were born like that. I’m just for human rights, and that’s part of it. It’s nobody’s damn business what people do. If people would just keep their damn noses out of everybody else’s business, that would be a good place to start. Just treat everybody the same and shut up. ... Do I sound bitter?”

Roseanne to the Palm Springs gay publication The Bottom Line, Nov. 12.

“The truth is the president of the United States used the same device that Slobodan Milosevic used in Serbia. When you appeal to homophobia, when you appeal to sexism, when you appeal to racism, that is extraordinarily damaging to the country. I know George Bush. I served with him for six years [as a fellow governor]. He’s not a homophobe. He’s not a racist. He’s not a sexist. In some ways, what he did was worse ... because he knew better.”

Former presidential candidate Howard Dean speaking at Northwestern University, Nov. 11.

“In the south [of Spain], the mariquita – and we’re not talking maricón [faggot] here, we’re talking mariquita – is much more feminine than the women. And he’s completely accepted. The problem is that the mariquita is sleeping with the husbands of those women, and the women have no idea. But that’s another story.”

Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar to Advocate.com, Nov. 9.

“Our rights are slowly being eroded. It happened in Nazi Germany, the incredible brain drain of artists, scientists and writers who fled to the U.S. Now it’s happening here [in the U.S.]. The government wants gays to live outside the protection of the law.”

Gay screenwriter Craig Lucas (Prelude to a Kiss, The Secret Lives of Dentists) who is immigrating to Vancouver in response to the anti-gay results of the U.S. election, to Toronto’s Globe and Mail, Nov. 10.

“The Sept. 29 news story ‘Scalia Describes Dangerous Trend’ misquoted Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia as saying that ‘I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.’ In fact, Scalia said, ‘I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.’”

Correction published in The Harvard Crimson, Sept. 29.

“My belief is it’s not necessary.”

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on moves to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage, Nov. 15.

“The American government didn’t do anything [about AIDS in the 1980s]. If it’s gay people, let them fucking die. ... Why wasn’t I out marching? What kind of person was I then? ... It just fills me with despair. I’m ashamed I did nothing during that period.”

Elton John to London’s Time Out, Nov. 17.