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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 30-Dec-2004 in issue 888

“You have to be smarter when you write for gay people, and I say that because I’m writing for myself. Also, when you grow up gay, you’re outside the mainstream and have a different take on the world. That’s why gay artists have had such a powerful influence on popular culture – because they are willing to go to different places and face brave new worlds.”

— Openly gay “Desperate Housewives” creator and executive producer Marc Cherry to The Advocate, Dec. 21.

“When you put a face to our issues, that’s when we get support. We’re not going to win at the ballot box until we start winning at the water cooler and in the church pews.”

— Human Rights Campaign communications director Steven Fisher to The New York Times, Dec. 9.

“Our constitution is a living tree which, by way of progressive interpretation, accommodates and addresses the realities of modern life.”

— The Supreme Court of Canada Dec. 9, giving its blessing to the federal government’s plan to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. The feds had asked the Supremes for their thoughts on the matter.

“The reality is that the marriage movement is being driven by individual couples going to court and seeking their rights. And there is no great, grand, gay cabal that can tell couples, ‘Don’t seek your rights, and just wait a while till the public is ready for it.’”

— National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive Director Matt Foreman to the Boston Globe, Dec. 13.

“Gay marriage will be completely legal in Canada very soon. It’s been oddly ignored in much of the U.S. media and hasn’t really been much discussed among those in the terrified red states except when, deep in the night, from their respective lumpy twin beds, they whisper to each other across the room as they pop their Ambien and stroke their portfolios and curse their very genitals: oh my God what’s wrong with those freakin’ Canadians?”

— Columnist Mark Morford, SFGate.com, Dec. 15.

“I kept having Japanese people point at me in airports and say, ‘Pink Savior! Pink Savior!’ I couldn’t figure what was going on – until it turned out that ‘Queer Eye’ is called ‘The Pink Saviors’ in Japan.”

– Carson Kressley, of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”, to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Dec. 13.

“That’s the only kind of woman that I really like. Women who’re very strong, really self-assured, very handy with power tools, incredibly self-actualized. That’s why butch dykes are the best.”

— Comedian Margaret Cho to the British lesbian magazine Diva, January issue.

“I grew up nonpolitical. I was out on Fire Island laughing at the Gay Pride marches on TV. What politicized me was a couple of friends dying real fast.”

— Veteran activist and author Larry Kramer to The Village Voice, Dec. 15.