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Published Thursday, 10-Nov-2005 in issue 933
“Coming out doesn’t have to mean putting a sticker on your car, flying a rainbow flag from your front porch, or marching in a parade. … It may be as simple as putting a picture of your partner on your desk at work, sharing your personal story with your boss, or speaking up when someone says something anti-gay. For others, it may be as difficult as offering a letter of resignation instead of implementing or assisting with an anti-gay campaign strategy.”
Log Cabin Republicans President Patrick Guerriero in an Oct. 14 commentary.
“I don’t care if someone is a homosexual or not, and even if I found out something like that, I wouldn’t judge a person differently than on their actions alone. But if that person tries to infect others with their homosexuality, then the state must intervene in this violation of freedom.”
Poland’s probable next prime minister, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, to Newsweek, Oct. 3.
“I don’t want it [autograph seekers] when I have my kids. My kids don’t like it; it’s a weird energy; it’s weird to see people going weird about your mom. It’s uncomfortable. So if I have my kids [with me], I’m not gonna sign an autograph for you – it’s just not gonna happen.”
Lesbian singer Melissa Etheridge to The Advocate, Oct. 25.
“Slowly but unmistakably, gay culture is ending. … In fact, it is beginning to dawn on many that the very concept of gay culture may one day disappear altogether. … [W]hat encompasses gay culture itself will expand into such a diverse set of subcultures that ‘gayness’ alone will cease to tell you very much about any individual. The distinction between gay and straight culture will become so blurred, so fractured, and so intermingled that it may become more helpful not to examine them separately at all.”
Gay author Andrew Sullivan writing in The New Republic, Oct. 24.
“A third of the country already supports gay people’s equality and inclusion in public life, including the freedom to marry. A third of the country adamantly opposes not just marriage for gay people but gay people. … But there’s also the middle third, the reachable-but-not-yet-reached, and those are the people that we really need to be talking about.”
Freedom To Marry Executive Director Evan Wolfson to Mother Jones magazine, Oct. 10.
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