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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 24-Jul-2003 in issue 813

“Pride Week here starts July 28, for those who want to get married. And there’s a couple of great bathhouses for those who want great threesomes during the honeymoon.”

— Gareth Kirkby, editor of the Vancouver, Canada, gay newspaper Xtra! West, in a July 8 note to this column. British Columbia became the second Canadian province to legalize full marriage for same-sex couples July 8, effective immediately.

“In 1985 ... I became the original sponsor and author of the gay civil-rights legislation in the United States Senate — before Ellen DeGeneres, before ‘Will & Grace,’ before anyone knew who Melissa Etheridge was, before there’d been a march on Washington, when it was radioactive. I was the only United States senator in 1996 who was running for re-election to vote against DOMA and to go to the floor of the United States Senate and say it was gay-bashing.”

— Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry at the Human Rights Campaign’s presidential forum, July 15.

“The single greatest problem facing Seattle’s gay community today is the terminal use of crystal meth. It threatens to implode our existence, to steal away as many of our friends and loved ones as AIDS, and to destroy the souls and spirits of hundreds of people who used to glow with hope and potential.”

— Columnist Beau Burriola in the Seattle Gay News, June 27.

“The reality is that Senators Bill Frist and Ted Kennedy and Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same position on gay marriage — They’re opposed to it. The real danger here is that it is still deemed politically acceptable to deny basic recognition of our relationships from both the far right and the far left.”

— Patrick Guerriero, executive director of the gay group Log Cabin Republicans, to D.C.’s Metro Weekly, July 10.

“The concept of ‘separate but equal’ was properly rejected as inherently problematic by the Supreme Court in the landmark school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education. While I applaud the Vermont civil-unions law, I am convinced that ultimately inequities will arise if there is one set of laws governing marriage commitments for heterosexuals and another set of laws governing marriage commitments for homosexuals.”

— Democratic presidential candidate Carol Moseley Braun on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidate Questionnaire, July 15.

“Apart from my husband — who maybe will cross over one day as well — I am entirely surrounded by homos. Homosexuals are for me human beings like any other with their qualities and their faults. I count some of them as my best friends.”

— Former film actress and sex symbol Brigitte Bardot, 68, to the French gay magazine Tribumove, July 11. Bardot angered some gays earlier this year when she wrote in her new book, A Cry In The Silence, “They [gays] jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and, with their little castrato voices, moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through.”