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Published Thursday, 06-Oct-2005 in issue 928
“I really never kept my life private. Those who knew me, those who worked with me were all well aware [I’m gay]. And what I actually started doing was hosting [the PBS gay show] ‘In the Life,’ and that was just kind of my way of saying, ‘Here I am!’”
Singer Lesley Gore (“It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to”) coming out in Boston’s In Newsweekly, Sept. 16. She said she’d never been asked about it for publication before.
“In response to a question that asked, ‘Do you think of yourself as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or something else?’ 90 percent of men 18-44 years of age responded that they think of themselves as heterosexual, 2.3 percent of men answered homosexual, 1.8 percent bisexual, 3.9 percent ‘something else,’ and 1.8 percent did not answer the question. Percents for women were similar.”
From a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention summary of its just-released study “Sexual Behavior and Selected Health Measures: Men and Women 15-44 Years of Age, United States, 2002.” Researchers questioned 12,571 Americans face-to-face.
“I would defy anybody – anybody in this chamber, anybody in Massachusetts – to say that the Apocalypse has come, yet some have predicted it. Sixty-five hundred married couples later, the sun still shines in Massachusetts. My coffee does not have curdled milk.”
Massachusetts state Sen. Jarrett Barrios on Sept. 14 as the Legislature overwhelmingly rejected a constitutional amendment to undo the state’s legalization of same-sex marriage.
“My mother never approved of my relationship with Ellen [DeGeneres]. Her hatred for our relationship is one of the many things that ultimately led to my breaking off all communication with her. (My mother, that is, not Ellen.) The ‘Ex-gay’ events that are going on right now make me sick. The fact that my mother is using my name to promote this movement makes me even sicker. I could not disagree more adamantly with what she and her group of unloving, unaccepting, Bible preaching hate mongers are doing. … And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn’t be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother’s prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.”
Actress Anne Heche writing at AnneHeche.com, in August.
“This new ‘Instruction’ is disgusting and destructive, but hardly surprising given this pope’s long-standing, unbridled hatred for gay people. While he’s at it, he should order that the Sistine Chapel be painted over and that the Vatican get rid of all the sacred works of art created for it by so-called ‘disordered’ gay people over the centuries. This is part of the church hierarchy’s calculated – and frankly, evil – campaign to scapegoat gay people for the decades of appalling sex abuse of children and young people that it alone created, nurtured and covered up.”
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive Director Matt Foreman on the Roman Catholic Church’s reported plans to ban all gays from seminaries, Sept. 22.
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