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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 24-Feb-2005 in issue 896

“I’m not [gay]. [I]t was very odd. ... I just assumed this is what comes of being 42 and single. I don’t know if they just needed to find a reason why I wasn’t married. ... I do think it was really weird, though, that there was all this curiosity about something like that – about sexuality. And I thought, what a world we live in that that’s so important.”

“Desperate Housewives” star Marcia Cross (Bree) on false (mostly British) media reports that she was preparing to come out in The Advocate, speaking Feb. 9 on ABC-TV’s “The View”.

“Gay men do not have the right to spread a debilitating and often fatal disease. A person who is HIV positive has no more right to unprotected intercourse than he has the right to put a bullet through another person’s head.”

Gay author and historian Charles Kaiser to The New York Times, Feb. 15.

“I really don’t want to stop. They’re making me stop! I told the tour managers, ‘But I haven’t done Vermont or Delaware,’ and they said, ‘There are no venues big enough, dear,’ and then I said, ‘So go out and build some!’ After that, physical restraint was mentioned.”

Cher, telling the New York Post Feb. 3 that her 325th and final farewell concert will take place April 30 at the Hollywood Bowl.

“George Bush’s second inaugural extravaganza was every bit as repugnant as I had expected, a vulgar orgy of triumphalism probably unmatched since Napoleon crowned himself emperor of the French in Notre Dame in 1804. The little Corsican corporal had a few decent victories to his escutcheon. Lodi, Marengo, that sort of thing. Not so this strutting Texan mountebank, with his chimpanzee smirk and his born-again banalities delivered in that constipated syntax that sounds the way cold cheeseburgers look, and his grinning plastic wife, and his scheming junta of neo-con spivs, shamans, flatterers and armchair warmongers, and his sinuous evasions and his brazen lies, and his sleight of hand theft from the American poor, and his rape of the environment, and his lethal conviction that the world must submit to his Pax Americana or be bombed into charcoal.”

Mike Carlton writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, Jan. 22.

“I really relate to the gay issue because of the marijuana issue. Because what Democrats are saying to gay people – which is basically, ‘Oh, what do you care if it’s just getting civil unions? It’s basically the same thing as marriage – just shut up and take it!’ – that’s basically what people say to me about pot smoking. They say, ‘Bill, what do you care so much if it’s illegal? You can always step outside the restaurant after dinner, I’ve seen you do it a hundred times, and smoke your joint in the alley.’ And my answer to both of them is ‘Fuck you.’ You go outside after dinner and drink your brandy in the alley. You call whatever is going on under your roof a ‘civil union.’”

TV talk-show host Bill Maher to The Advocate, Feb. 15.

“I think people have the right to love, to live with and to marry whoever they want, regardless of their sexual orientation.”

Republican New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, addressing a Human Rights Campaign dinner Feb. 5 in New York City.