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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 03-Nov-2005 in issue 932

“Now is the time for closeted gay conservatives to find the courage and personal strength to stand up and be counted. Now is the time we can really make a difference. If every gay conservative came out of the closet today, the journey to full equality would be over in years instead of decades.”

Log Cabin Republicans President Patrick Guerriero in an Oct. 14 commentary.

“In every show that I’ve done on television – certainly in the sitcoms – we always fought injustice. My God, what the gay community has been suffering all these years is injustice! Of course, there’s something else, which has to do with being bigger than life. It’s like opera – you know what I mean? I sort of have a feeling that Judy is looking down and saying, ‘Go, girl!’”

Actress Bea Arthur when asked by the Portland, Ore., gay newspaper Just Out, “Do you have any theories on why gay fans connect with you so strongly?” Oct. 7.

“Cronyism, corruption, incompetence, high crimes and misdemeanors with the Bush Administration, the list goes on and on. I can’t help but feel like I am back in 1972, when Richard Nixon was embroiled in a complex web of political scandals. Today, there may be no Watergate Hotel, but as a result of this administration’s overwhelming incompetence and arrogance our deficit has ballooned, we are entangled in an unwinnable war and hundreds of thousands of young men and women have been sent to be maimed and killed, all in the name of keeping America safer. After the President and the Federal Government’s shameful response to Hurricane Katrina, the American public finally got a sobering view of how little the Bush Administration has accomplished to actually make America safer. … How many more people must lose their lives before there are investigations and ultimately a well deserved, long over due impeachment of this president?”

Barbra Streisand on her Web site, Oct. 6.

“For a very long time, the fundamental social institution for gay men was the gay bar. It was often secluded – a refuge, a safe zone, and a clearing-house for sexual pickups. Most bars still perform some of those functions. But the Internet dealt them a body-blow. If you are merely looking for sex or a date, the Web is now the first stop for most gay men. The result has been striking.”

Gay author Andrew Sullivan writing in The New Republic, Oct. 24.

“The case for ending discrimination in marriage is twofold: Government should not be putting obstacles in the path of people seeking to care for one another, and gay people have the same mix of reasons for wanting the freedom to marry and needing the protections and responsibilities of marriage as non-gay people do. … Allowing these families to be stronger is not going to take anything away from anybody else.”

Freedom To Marry Executive Director Evan Wolfson to Mother Jones magazine, Oct. 10.