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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 30-Jun-2005 in issue 914

“Gays being gay is wrong. Two women can’t produce a baby, two men can’t produce a baby, so it’s not how it’s supposed to be. … I don’t believe in gay marriages. I don’t believe in being gay.”

Chicago White Sox designated hitter Carl Everett to Maxim magazine, July issue.

“We can’t ever back down on this issue. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a book on the battle for civil rights equality and entitled it Why We Can’t Wait. It’s the same thing for same-sex marriage equality. Some people tell us this isn’t the time to push the matter. But for them, there’s never going to be a right time. So we have to just fight like hell.”

New Paltz, N.Y., Mayor Jason West on June 7, announcing that he would lead the town’s first Pride parade June 12. West is being prosecuted for marrying same-sex couples last year.

“We are the kind of gay people who are often held up as the kind of gay people who should get married. We’ve been together for 10 years, our kid is 7. … We’re Ward and June Cleaver with sodomy.”

Syndicated sex-advice columnist Dan Savage on his relationship with his partner, Terry, to the Tucson Citizen, June 9.

“I salute Californians for standing up for America’s democratic ideals and working to advance respect and appreciation for all people. Your efforts serve to raise awareness and advocate civil rights for all individuals, regardless of sexual orientation.”

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger writing to organizers of this year’s Los Angeles Pride parade.

“I think I’ve gone to a gay bar about 10 times in my whole life. It just wasn’t my scene.”

Tennis champ Martina Navratilova to The Out Traveler magazine, July/August issue.

“Today it’s very popular to be a part of the status quo. We’ve seen that with the resurgence of the bimbo. People like Jessica Simpson and Britney Spears, who have no opinion whatsoever – no opinion about women’s rights or gay rights or whatever. We’re living in a very, very dangerous time.”

RuPaul to the Baltimore newspaper GAYLIFE, June 10.

“When people ask [if I’m gay], I just say [it]. I mean I don’t think there’s a time I decided to [come out]. It just is.”

Actor John Glover from TV’s “Smallville” to the Miami gay newspaper The Weekly News, May 19. He plays Lionel Luthor, Lex Luthor’s villainous father.

“Stonewall Wasn’t Sponsored by Budweiser”

Sign carried by a Queer Revolution protester at the Portland, Ore., Pride parade June 19. According to the Portland Independent Media Center, “Queer Revolution and the Dyke March crashed the corporate-sponsored Gay Pride Parade.”