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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 28-Apr-2005 in issue 905

“A huge chunk of BushCo’s voting bloc is evangelical or born-again Christian. Millions of otherwise decent and sincere Americans who actually believe the Bible as literal word-for-word truth, verbatim, no questions asked, not metaphor and not parable and not lovely set of nice, same-as-every-other-religion mythologies by which we set our moral compasses, but a set of actual facts told in cautionary dramedy, like a silly locust-ridden reality-TV show. Extreme Jesus: Apocalypse Edition.”

— SFGate.com columnist Mark Morford, March 24.

“My ideal man, at the moment, would be Russian – emotionally cold, harboring a wicked sense of humor and liable to do anything if you give him enough vodka.”

— Singer Boy George to London’s Gay Times, April issue.

“From the start, I’ve always admired Eminem’s thinking. That’s the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I was asked, despite all the nonsense talked about his being homophobic. Let the Boy Georges and the George Michaels of the world get up in a twist about it if they don’t have the intelligence to see his intelligence.”

— Elton John writing in Rolling Stone magazine, April 7.

“I basically was raised by two gay men, Ernie and Mort, who were best friends. When we didn’t have a place to stay, we stayed with them.”

— Singer Mariah Carey to the Miami gay newspaper The Weekly News, March 31.

“I was out to every single human I knew in my life. Including my entire staff in every movie I ever did. No one ever in my life did I tell that I was not gay. I never ever, ever, ever was in the closet and it pissed me off when people said that. … Yeah, I never said it, because it was an afternoon talk show in 1995. That’s why I never said it.”

— Rosie O’Donnell to the Boston gay newspaper Bay Windows, March 10.

“Judy Garland is the North Star of my constellation. I’m a massive fanatic and unashamedly so. I feel that she is, perhaps, one of the greatest examples of the well-rounded megastar. She had it all in terms of singing, acting, personality and tragic lifestyle. She was the real deal.”

— Gay singer Rufus Wainwright as quoted in London’s Gay Times, April issue.

“Listening to Diana Ross’s exuberant ‘I’m Coming Out,’ you’re faced with one of the biggest mysteries of modern queer life. Why is Gloria Gaynor’s bitter and hard-done-by ‘I Will Survive’ the quintessential gay anthem? Faced with a choice between ‘There’s a new me coming out/And I just had to live/And I wanna give/I’m completely positive’ and ‘Weren’t you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye/Did you think I’d crumble/Did you think I’d lay down and die,’ gay men identify with the one who almost laid down and died. … Not to point fingers, but I blame bad drag queens. … When the song has been cut like a cyst out of the drag repertoire, the revolution will come much more easily. Gloria Gaynor must die, metaphorically at least.”

— Paul Gallant, managing editor of the Toronto gay newspaper Xtra!, in his March 31 editorial.