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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 20-Oct-2005 in issue 930

“I had a yard sale after my divorce where 5,000 people came, and one man in particular bought several pairs of my shoes. You know you’ve made it when a drag queen comes to your yard sale and buys your stuff!”

Singer Wynonna Judd to The Advocate, Oct. 11.

“A lot of people have asked me, ‘Were you worried about the sex scenes?,’ and, you know, maybe it’s just that I take these things for granted, because I live in L.A. and some of my close friends and family are gay, and I grew up in a generation where it’s not a problem. It’s not my fault if people disagree with my ideas, because that’s how I was raised.”

Brokeback Mountain star Jake Gyllenhaal to Britain’s Empire magazine, Oct. 6. The Ang Lee movie won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for best film Sept. 10 in Italy.

“Apparently, Governor Schwarzenegger has ripped a page from President Bush’s re-election playbook. Rule number one in the ‘Bush-Rove Guide to Running on a Record of Failure’ is to demonize groups of people and use them to divide the electorate by rallying the extremists in your base. It’s the only way to explain Governor Schwarzenegger’s promise to veto the California marriage equality bill after pledging just last year to support equal rights and responsibilities for California’s LGBT families if approved by the courts or the legislature. … Traditionally, states have decided how best to achieve equality for all of their families. Sadly, now that Californians – through their duly elected state legislature – have made their decision, Governor Schwarzenegger and his right-wing allies are thwarting their will for electoral gain.”

Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean, in a Sept. 23 statement.

“Put it on the ballot – maybe they’ve changed their mind. Because I think the polls are different today than they maybe were five years ago. It could easily be that they favor gay marriage in California.”

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at a campaign event Sept. 28, a day before he vetoed the groundbreaking bill passed by the Legislature legalizing same-sex marriage. In 2000, California voters passed Proposition 22, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman.

“Yes, I am gay. Yes, I have two children. … Beyond saying that I have been in a relationship for 12 years and I have two children, I am not saying anything. No other parliamentarians are asked about their families and how their children are conceived and I don’t see why I have to. I have children to protect and I don’t want to go into it.”

Penny Sharpe, who was chosen to fill a vacancy in the Upper House of Parliament in the Australian state of New South Wales, where Sydney is located, to local media, Sept. 26.

“We will win the argument around [marriage]; we just have to make the argument. We have to engage. We have to fight and scream and yell and organize and give money to groups we think are effective.”

Syndicated gay columnist Dan Savage to The Advocate, Sept. 27.