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Published Thursday, 24-Aug-2006 in issue 974
“Tennis is eating too much of my personal life. That’s not what I had in mind when I came back. So no more. I just wanna be home with my honey.”
Martina Navratilova to syndicated Canadian gay columnist Richard Burnett, July 27.
“The biggest threat to children today is not sex. … It’s witless, sexually confused adults. It’s trembling bipeds who never have sex and who never drink and who never do drugs and who never have sex while drunk and on drugs while hanging from the ceiling, laughing. They are the true danger to us all. It even says so in the Bible: ‘Beware, ye who eat food from cans. Beware the whiny and the self-righteous and the humorless hand-wringers, for they shall poop upon the earth.’ I think it’s in Leviticus.”
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford, July 28.
“The gay community has been sticking with me all these years. They’re my most loyal fans and it’s where I have the most fun. So, thank you.”
’80s pop star Deborah (Debbie) Gibson performing at the San Diego LGBT Pride Festival, July 29.
“It’s a sad statement that the national leader of a country that’s one of the most progressive countries in the world chooses to support intolerance [by not attending the 1st World Outgames in Montreal]. It’s our job to see that as an unfortunate ignorance, rather than as a statement against us. It’s just that he hasn’t got there in his heart.”
Singer k.d. lang on Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at a July 28 press conference in Montreal.
“Honey, gays are the ones who make you and stay with you. … How stupid can hearts be when people discriminate, period. It’s just an awful thing.”
Singer Patti LaBelle to the gay newspaper Dallas Voice, July 27.
“Jamaica is not against gay people. Gay means consented sex. What we have in Jamaica is not what it is in England where two men live together. That’s not it in Jamaica and these people [gay activists who protest my music] fail to understand that. In Jamaica, gay is rape. It’s a big man with their money going into the ghetto and picking these little youth who ain’t got nothing. And then give them money and then involving them. There were 550 youths who got raped inna Jamaica you know? And nobody seems to speak of that. Nobody sees the youth get raped, and throat cut because the man who raped him, he knows him, and he doesn’t want him to go back and say he did it. And these things still happening.”
Famous Jamaican dancehall reggae singer Beenie Man (Moses Davis) to London’s The Independent, Aug. 11. The lyrics targeted by gay activists include, “Well I’m think of a new Jamaica, me come to execute all of the gays.”
“If you haven’t followed the evolution of gay cinema in the past 20 years, ‘Another Gay Movie’ is the absolute worst place to start. This flaming projectile is aimed at a tiny subset of the gay audience – those who have seen the landmark movies on the long road to respectability and think it’s safe to revert to the crudest stereotypes. And not just gay stereotypes. This crass comedy borrows the storyline – and the sex-with-pastries gag – of the hetero hit ‘American Pie.’”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch film critic Joe Williams, Aug. 11.
Assistance: Bill Kelley
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