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Published Thursday, 02-Mar-2006 in issue 949
“I do find I have to jump through hoops that other actors would not have to jump through. The combination of playing the queen, being on “Queer As Folk” and being openly gay is a trifecta of stereotyping which has allowed some casting people to say, ‘He’s not right for this.’ So we are doing a lot of pushing [to get me work since “Queer As Folk” ended], but that’s all right as it was all worth it.”
“Queer As Folk” actor Peter Paige (Emmett) to the Sydney Star Observer, Feb. 2.
“Many Americans, especially parents, still have deep concerns about the direction of our culture, and the health of our most basic institutions. They are concerned about unethical conduct by public officials, and discouraged by activist courts that try to redefine marriage.”
President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address, Jan. 31.
“We’re seeing people who become sex addicts and don’t have a long history with the problem prior to going online. The Internet is the crack cocaine of sex addiction. Internet sex is not like porn where you have to leave your house and go to the bookstore. The Internet is accessible and also never-ending; there’s always another image or person online – not to mention it’s cheap as pasta.”
Psychotherapist Robert Weiss, author of the new book Cruise Control: Understanding Sex Addiction in Gay Men, to advocate.com, Jan. 27.
“When I’m throwing a party it’s very important that a lot of 27-year-old Latin men come, preferably shirtless.”
“Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” food guy Ted Allen to San Diego’s Gay & Lesbian Times, Jan. 26.
“I’ve spent many years where networks and studios have said: ‘We’re only going to pay you this amount of money because we’re taking such a big chance on you. You’re openly gay. It’s very risky to hire you – you big homo, you.’ Now that we have gay networks, I don’t think I have to put up with that shit anymore. So Logo calls me all the time and asks me to do stuff, and they always ask me to do it for free. And I’m pretty insulted.”
Actor Harvey Fierstein to the gay magazine QVegas, February issue.
“[I]f anyone reading this believes that gay men can actually become ex-gay men, I have just one question for you: Would you want your daughter to marry one? Evangelical Christians seem sincere in their desire to help build healthy, lasting marriages. Well, if that’s their goal, encouraging gay men to enter into straight marriages is a peculiar strategy. Every straight marriage that includes a gay husband is one Web-browser-history check away from an ugly divorce. If anything, supporters of traditional marriage should want gay men out of the heterosexual marriage market entirely. And the best way to do that is to see that we’re safely married off – to each other, not to your daughters.”
Gay writer Dan Savage writing in The New York Times, Feb. 10.
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