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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 24-Mar-2005 in issue 900

“The idea that marriage-like rights without marriage is adequate smacks of a concept long rejected by the courts: separate but equal.”

— San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer striking down California’s ban on same-sex marriage March 14. The ruling will be appealed to a higher court. California already has a domestic-partnership law that grants registered same-sex couples 99 percent of state-level matrimonial rights and obligations.

“I feel terrible having my butt whupped by a homosexual, you know, but a lot of gay folks are strong, man. They all workin’ out at the gym and all, you know. Damn.”

— “Survivor” contestant James Miller, a steelworker from Mobile, Ala., on the March 10 episode, after losing a physical duel with openly gay contestant Coby Archa, a hairdresser from Athens, Tex., who knocked him off a raft.

“[CNN’s] Anderson [Cooper] has only really been out [of the closet] in that he gracefully lives his life while never bothering to claim he’s straight. The child of complicated parents and a product of fame, class, and some darkness, he’s evolved into a fascinating paradox who’s reportorially fearless about everything but himself.”

— Michael Musto writing on Out.com, March 7.

“My boyfriend [Paul Hickey], he found out he was positive in 1990 on his 40th birthday, and he got really distraught about it. From that moment he wouldn’t have sex with me, so I think I decided in my head that I would go and get it from somewhere else, which sounds really bizarre. ... On tours and stuff, I went around the world and hooked up with guys and wasn’t always safe. I’ve got no tattoos, but I kind of felt like that was like a gay tattoo.”

— Erasure singer Andy Bell to the Miami gay newspaper The Weekly News, Feb. 3.

“You never fall in love with the people you think you will fall in love with. And it never happens at a convenient time.”

— Debra Messing of “Will & Grace” to the Florida gay magazine Contax Guide, Feb. 24.

“You know how hard it is to meet gay guys who are into sports? I have season tickets to the Lakers, and none of my friends ever want to go with me. They’re like, ‘Is there a halftime show?’ No. ‘Then no, we don’t want to go.’”

— Comic ANT of VH1’s “Celebrity Fit Club” to the St. Louis gay newspaper The Vital Voice, Feb. 25.

“There have been several guys in a situation where their houses were so disgusting that we really wanted to turn around and leave. ... I mean, there was one guy on Staten Island whose feet were so smelly that the whole apartment smelled terrible. Thom [Felicia] literally made the guy take off his shoes and scrub his feet off in a bucket of water outside the door before we could continue. I mean, it was just disgusting. And, with the exception of Carson, we’re not a bunch of girly-girls here. I’m sorry, it was gross!”

— Ted Allen of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” to the Pittsburgh gay newspaper Out, March issue.