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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 28-Jul-2005 in issue 918

“We love Canada. In fact, most Americans love Canada a lot more than they used to before we had our current president. Now we love you even more. Every time he opens his mouth Canada gets a little more appealing.”

Rosie O’Donnell speaking July 12 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

“The examining attorney found it to be offensive to a significant portion of the lesbian community. And we’re also looking out for the sensitivities of the general public more than that of a specific applicant.”

Administrator Jessie Roberts of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office explaining the office’s refusal to trademark “Dykes On Bykes” for the women who ride motorcycles in San Francisco’s Pride parade, to the San Francisco Chronicle, July 14.

“All you suburban, lawn mowing, corpo-droid homos out there, hiding behind your picket fences, the ones wringing your hands and worrying that Pride ruins YOUR personal rep, listen up. Do you think that straight Americans worry that Mardi Gras damages international perception of American culture? America, land of the free, home of ‘Show Us Your Tits!’? They don’t, and neither should we.”

Blogger “Joe.My.God.” at http://joemygod.blogspot.com, July 5.

“Work really extra super hard and do nothing else but work and ignore your family and spend 14 hours a day at the office and make 300 grand a year that you never have time to spend, sublimate your soul to the corporate machine and enjoy a profound drinking problem and sporadic impotence and a nice 8BR mini-mansion you never spend any time in, and you and your shiny BMW 740i will get into heaven. This is the American Puritan work ethos, still alive and screaming and sucking the world dry. Work is the answer. Work is also the question. Work is the one thing really worth doing and if you’re not working you’re either a slacker or a leech.”

SFGate.com columnist Mark Morford, July 8.

“Mr. Traynham is a valued member of my staff and I regret that this effort on behalf of people who oppose me has made him a target of bigotry in their eyes. It is entirely unacceptable that my staffs’ [sic] personal lives are considered fair game by partisans looking for arguments to bolster my opponent’s campaign. Mr. Traynham continues to have my full support and confidence as well as my prayers as he navigates this rude and mean spirited invasion of his personal life.”

Anti-gay U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., in a written statement released after his director of communications grudgingly came out to PageOneQ.com, July 15.

“Senator Santorum is a man of principle, he is a man who sticks up for what he believes in, I strongly do support Senator Santorum. … Senator Santorum is a family man. I have been with Senator Santorum for eight years and I am very proud to be with him.”

Robert Traynham, director of communications for anti-gay U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., confirming to PageOneQ.com that he (Traynham) is gay, July 14.