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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 23-Dec-2004 in issue 887

“I have no problem showing my cock. ... I did go naked in A Home At the End of the World but they cut it out. During test audience screenings, they were advised it was too distracting. I don’t know, I see my cock every day and am not distracted.”

— Alexander star Colin Farrell to the San Diego gay magazine Buzz, Nov. 25.

“From the very first moment we were told in 1981 that the suspected cause [of AIDS] was a virus, gay men have refused to accept our responsibility for choosing not to listen, and, starting in 1984, when we were told it definitely was a virus, this behavior turned murderous. ... I wish we could understand and take some responsibility for the fact that for some 30 years we have been murdering each other with great facility and that down deep inside of us, we knew what we were doing.”

— Veteran gay activist and author Larry Kramer speaking at New York City’s Cooper Union, Nov. 7.

“They’ve got to apologize to God because they break God’s law. Why must I apologize to corruption? How can I do that? I sing ‘fire burn for homosexuals’ and sometime in some street I walk, I see them and me no touch them. If I don’t like what you’re doing I don’t come there, if you don’t like what I’m doing or what I say you don’t come where I’m at.”

— Jamaican dancehall-music star Sizzla refusing to apologize for lyrics such as “fire fi di man dem weh go ride man behind,” which means “burn the man who rides a man from behind,” in a Nov. 25 interview with the BBC’s 1Xtra station.

“Irresponsible, biased, shameful and destructive.”

— The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs in response to a Nov. 26 ABC-TV “20/20” report which suggested the murder of Matthew Shepard had to do with “money and drugs” and was not a hate crime.

“For more than six months, same-sex couples in Massachusetts have been getting married, and nobody else’s marriage has been affected. Massachusetts continues to have the nation’s lowest divorce rate.”

— Lambda Legal Marriage Project Director David Buckel in a Nov. 29 press release.

“I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable, and I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave – with all five fingers – for their hospitality.”

— George W. Bush in Ottawa, Ontario, Nov. 30. Gay groups were well-represented among thousands of protesters, visible to Bush, many of whom may not have used all five fingers.

“I’m very suspicious of God-fearing zealots in whatever country they bloody well live in.”

— Gay singer Elton John to the Washington Post, Dec. 5.