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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 21-Sep-2006 in issue 978

“Angie [Angelina Jolie] and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able.”

Actor Brad Pitt to Esquire magazine in the October issue.

“Instead of waging efforts to change hearts and minds, gay movement leaders have tried to bludgeon opponents and pursued a strategy where a very small minority would impose its will on a vast majority through judicial fiat. While activists relied on the courts for victory, supporters of traditional marriage took the debate to the ballot box and won every single time. A failed strategy appears to have put gay marriage out of reach for a long time to come.”

Jeff Gannon, the man at the center of a White House press corps/gay-prostitution brouhaha, in his regular column in the gay newspaper Washington Blade, Sept. 1.

“A little announcement [that you’re gay] and you’re everywhere. … I’m totally happy, I’m a completely different person, I think. It just sucks with all the lies you have to tell. … It’s been crazy because everyone’s paying attention to what I’m doing now. … Everyone’s been very supportive.”

Former ’N Sync singer Lance Bass to Warner Brothers Studios’ extratv.com, Aug. 29.

“I’m just a performer who plays people some music. I hope that my music helps people to forget about their problems for a few hours. But I’m also a gay man and I’ve heard that gay people face violence in Poland. Leave us alone. We don’t want to harm anybody. We just want to love and be loved.”

Elton John during a performance at Poland’s Sopot Festival on Sept. 2, as relayed by members of Poland’s Campaign Against Homophobia organization.

“There are people who think that I’m strident and bossy and much too New York and left-wing liberal. You get what you paid for, and there’s no way that I’m going to change.”

Rosie O’Donnell to Newsweek, Sept. 11.

“I saw him [Tom Cruise] doing the couch jumping. I wasn’t mad at him. I was mad at Oprah. Oprah, couldn’t you have said, ‘Tommy, come here! Don’t jump’. … For me, to love someone is not to get rid of them when they do something you don’t think is appropriate. I love him, and love is eternal. [But] it never went to sexual. My Angelina Jolie crush was much more sexual than my Tom Cruise crush ever was.”

Rosie O’Donnell to Newsweek, Sept. 11. O’Donnell added that if Cruise had lost it on her show, she’d have sat him down and retaped the segment.

“A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don’t know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them. It’s so stupid, everything that they say. And the media take on it is just as stupid as theirs, sometimes worse. They at least have motives. They are making money out of the republic or what’s left of it. It’s the stupidity that will really drive me away from this country.”

Gay writer Gore Vidal to The Progressive, August issue.

Assistance: Bill Kelley