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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 05-May-2005 in issue 906

“No, I’m not gay. I was nearly married a few years ago. And no, I’m not a right-wing Republican. I’m a conservative and want to pay less taxes. And I did vote Republican at the last election. But I’m more of a populist.”

Internet star Matt Drudge (The Drudge Report) to London’s Sunday Times, April 17.

“Either this guy believes his party is not serious and is totally Machiavellian in its position [on gay rights], or, you know, as David Brock said in his great book Blinded by the Right, there’s some sort of self-loathing or something.”

Bill Clinton on April 11 after key Republican political consultant Arthur Finkelstein married his boyfriend in Massachusetts. Finkelstein has helped a host of very anti-gay Republicans, including Jesse Helms.

“We are all merely waiting until the Big Battle happens in Israel, the bloody clash between the True Believers and the Antichrist Heathens, to be followed immediately by Jesus gliding down on gilded wings made of fine Egyptian cotton and cheap American flags and wearing kickass robes of fire and ready to suck the true believers up to heaven through a giant Crazy Straw and wipe the whole goddamn secular slate clean. Right?”

SFGate.com columnist Mark Morford, March 24.

“Ian McKellen, you come out when you’re 92 and you’re going to cast blame at me? Fuck you and your Sir Knighthood. I was so pissed at him. And he sent me a letter, ‘I hope you’re all right,’ ... and I thought, ‘You know, sit and spin, fucking prick.’ I’ll never speak to him the rest of my life. I could give a shit about Ian McKellen, and his little judgment of everyone else. I really could. Who is he?”

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

“I was trying to explain last night to a non-Catholic just how dumb-struck many reformist Catholics are by the elevation of [Joseph] Ratzinger [to pope]. And then I found a way to explain. This is the religious equivalent of having had four terms of George W. Bush only to find that his successor as president is Karl Rove. Get it now?”

Gay journalist Andrew Sullivan at AndrewSullivan.com, April 19.

“I think the people here [in Athens, Texas] are proud. I’m very happy with the response I’ve gotten. I wasn’t sure being a flaming and bitchy queen would go over very well, but I’ve been very touched by the support. I think people kind of glaze over how I was so bitter at the end. I think people really feel like they got a chance to know me.”

Openly gay “Survivor: Palau” contestant Coby Archa to Advocate.com, April 20.

“A right-wing gay man is like a vegetarian butcher.”

Singer Boy George as quoted in London’s Gay Times, April issue.

“Polls have shown that the country is divided roughly into thirds. One third are absolutely opposed to us, another third are right there with us. The middle third, they are different. They don’t hate gay people. They’re uncomfortable about homosexuality. They would rather not talk about it. We have answers to their questions, but we have to get them to ask the questions. Our challenge is to engage.”

Freedom to Marry Executive Director Evan Wolfson to the Michigan gay newspaper Between The Lines, April 21.