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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 02-Jun-2005 in issue 910

“Let’s hope that Pope Benedict XVI quickly realizes that the worst sex scandal in the Catholic Church doesn’t involve predatory priests. Rather, it involves the Vatican’s hostility to condoms, which is creating more AIDS orphans every day.”

— Columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times, May 8.

“I can’t get dates! It’s terrible. When I watch the show, I’m like, ‘Oh, my God. I’m never gonna get a date!’ Fame has ruined my love life!”

— Jai Rodriguez of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” to the Los Angeles gay magazine Frontiers, May 11.

“Someone should really do a national, once-and-for-all study to back up what everyone already knows – which is, of course, that the more repressed and sanctimonious and uptight you are about sex and love and gender and religion, the more likely you are to be involved in secret kink, in deep perversion, illegal perversion, perversion that crosses the line from healthy and slippery and delicious to degrading and morally reprehensible and Karl Rove. Just ask … the Catholic Church.”

— SFGate.com columnist Mark Morford, May 11.

“My demons were when I was a kid, you know, I wasn’t popular in school. So, ‘Survivor’ really is kind of like high school, so I wanted to be popular, you know. I wanted to be the prom queen. … And to be part of a team was definitely an appeal, because I’ve never been part of a team.”

— “Survivor” contestant Coby Archa, a gay hairdresser, during this season’s final episode, May 15.

“I’m tired. I’m tired of saying the same things. I’ve said enough. People look at me for answers. But I don’t know anymore. I’m gonna be 70 soon. It’s your world now. Please do something with it.”

— Veteran activist Larry Kramer to the Washington Post, May 9.

“I liked it [Showtime’s ‘The L Word’] when it first came out, I was a big fan. I think it fell into the toilet. It started out good, and now I’m disgusted by it. There isn’t one decent relationship. The worst thing is the relationships. There isn’t one monogamous relationship. Every show has to have a sex scene. I don’t know what they are thinking. There is nobody in there that I relate to, that I can say: ‘That’s cool! Wow! I want to be more like that!’”

— Tennis legend Martina Navratilova to PlanetOut.com, May 6.

“Fame is a nice distraction [but] after a while it’s just a big bore. Even with the money, all the plastic surgery … I’m going to get old and I’m going to die.”

— Roseanne Barr to the lesbian magazine Curve, June issue.

“The supermodel/glamazon image was a planned strategy to push buttons and turn heads, while using familiar imagery to invoke an icon. One part Dolly Parton, two parts Barbie, a cup of Cleopatra Jones and a dash of Disney.”

— RuPaul to the San Diego gay magazine Buzz, May 13.