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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 07-Jul-2005 in issue 915

“It seems like things are fine because we have ‘Will & Grace’ and ‘Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.’ Everything looks really great. But it’s not. The religious right has fear on their side, and unfortunately, that tactic works.”

RuPaul to the Baltimore newspaper GAYLIFE, June 10.

“I’m as out there as you can be. I’m a big fat gay neon sign for gay people. I love it and I’m proud of it and everyone who’s gay should embrace it and love themselves no matter what.”

Gay porn director Chi Chi La Rue to the D.C. gay publication Metro Weekly, June 9.

“[T]orching the glass pipe in front of the computer ’til the shards of meth liquefied and rose in white smoke, inhaling deeply, awaking tiny ghosts to come and erase the day. Then the unending jolt of vitality, fixating intensely on the hundreds upon hundreds of men’s naked pictures and profiles online, for hours, ’til the sun came up and then fell and rose again, and in the midst, sex in a bedroom, in a living room, at a bathhouse. And always, in the bulldozing moment, it was as if one’s history never existed and future is postponed by this supersonic present tense.”

Tony Valenzuela describing his crystal meth use in LA Weekly, June 10.

“There is, of course, a very simple solution for overcoming opposition to gay marriage. The only reason no one has figured it out before is that there is a minuscule crossover audience between C-Span and the Style Network, and you need information from both these vital news sources to realize the obvious: 1) All weddings in the United States are already gay; and 2) If you remove gays from marriage, all weddings will come to an immediate halt, with devastating results to the American economy and happy traditional families. … [H]ell hath no fury like a fiancée with a color scheme thwarted.”

M.M. Acosta writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, June 12.

“How many state constitutional amendments need to pass before we get angry? How many of our so-called friends in elected office need to betray us by supporting marriage segregation, while accepting awards at LGBT dinners, as if civil rights stops at the altar? Where are the celebrities who publicly ran to our defense during the AIDS crisis? Don’t Barbara Streisand and Cher think their gay and lesbian children should have the right to marry?”

Veteran activist Robin Tyler writing in the Washington Blade, June 10.