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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 12-Oct-2006 in issue 981

“You have that itch, and it feels good to scratch it. There is still a place to go for it. You should see this place at 6 [p.m.] before all of the guys go home to their wives.”

Construction worker Peter, 57, speaking to the Reuters news service at the New York City gay bathhouse East Side Club, Sept. 11. He didn’t provide his last name.

“Gay guys are hot. I’ve really, really fallen for several! One thing like that just happened. Roberto Cavalli threw me a huge party for my record, and there were four of the hottest guys I’ve ever seen in my life. I was like, ‘Oh, my God, get them in here, now!’ They came in, and I was so excited, and then they were like, ‘Omigod, we LOVE you, girl!’ I was like, ‘Hmm…’”

Celebrity socialite Paris Hilton writing in the September issue of Instinct magazine.

“I loved gays before it was chic! … Gay men just adore their divas. There are a whole group of women of a certain age gay men just love. There’s Liz, there’s Liza and, of course, there’s me!”

Comedian Joan Rivers to San Francisco’s Bay Times, Sept. 7.

“My trainer married her girlfriend last weekend and we went. It was beautiful. I was so touched by their vows to each other, I totally cried. They have some disapproving family members who actually decided to be present for the wedding. Afterwards, I wondered, Did they get it? Did they see the love? I never get people that think [being gay] is some kind of choice. You might be able to suppress it, but why would you live life that way? It really saddens me.”

Singer Christina Aguilera to advocate.com, Sept. 11.

“My experience has been bisexual but my love life has been entirely lesbian – that is, I’ve never fallen in love with a man, but I am equally attracted to men and women, always have been. We need to promote a model where it’s free to move back and forth between borderlines.”

Author Camille Paglia to the British national lesbian magazine Diva, October issue.

“It’s the largest step I’ve taken to be more active in the organization, and to interact with other gay journalists. … No one advised me against doing it. I have no regrets.”

CNN anchor Thomas Roberts after he appeared on a panel called “Off Camera: The Challenges for LGBT TV Anchors” at the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association’s recent conference in Miami Beach, to afterelton.com, Sept. 15.

“There was a time before AIDS when the baths were more integrated into the gay male community. Now they’re looked upon as some last-resort thing that you do privately and don’t talk to your friends about.”

Bill Stackhouse, director of the Institute for Gay Men’s Health at New York City’s Gay Men’s Health Crisis, to the Reuters wire service, Sept. 11.

“[In New York City,] two thick, glossy, ad-heavy, full-coloured magazines tell NYC gay men where to go to party, while two thin tabloids cover politics in the driest way possible. The gay party boys, it is assumed, don’t care about social change, while the gay politicos, it is assumed, never get any tingling feeling in their nether regions.”

Paul Gallant, managing editor of the Toronto gay newspaper Xtra!, writing in the Sept. 14 issue.

Assistance: Bill Kelley