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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 28-Aug-2003 in issue 818

“The sharp heel of cross-dressers is trampling the rights of Californians.”

— Randy Thomasson, executive director of Campaign for California Families, after Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill banning discrimination against transgender people, as reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 6.

“Truly, what gay men have is both worlds, the women’s sensitivity and the man’s smarts. My life would be boring and not as beautiful without them.”

— Comedian Joan Rivers to USA Today, Aug. 5.

“I can’t help thinking that if the Pope got as steamed about his employees hitting on little boys while the bosses protected felons as he does about a couple lesbians or homosexuals setting up light housekeeping, maybe Catholic pastors in America wouldn’t be staring at so many half-filled churches on Sunday mornings.”

— Columnist Mike Barnicle, New York Daily News, Aug. 3.

“By claiming that ‘we’re all sinners’ in response to a question about homosexuality, Bush is really telegraphing to his religious-right base: ‘Homosexuality is a grave sin, but we all commit some sort of sin, even if it’s not as bad as that of homosexuals. Let’s let them live, even though we shouldn’t treat them equally.’ The proof of that lies in his contention that those who engage in the sin of homosexuality are to be banned from marriage, while the rest of the sinners are free to marry to their hearts’ content.”

— Columnist Michelangelo Signorile, New York Press, Aug. 4.

“Bush is not our spiritual leader but the president of the United States.... Why is he pontificating about sin in the White House Rose Garden, in the context of having his lawyers look into possible legislation [against-gay marriage]?”

— Columnist Michelangelo Signorile, New York Press, Aug. 4.

“I can tell he hears me and he gets it. It is just a matter of time before he supports gay marriage.”

— Open lesbian Chrissy Gephardt on her dad, Democratic presidential candidate Richard Gephardt, to the Seattle Gay News, July 25.

“The show insists on reinforcing the stereotype that gay guys are groomed and charming and slender and witty, and no more than 35 years old. Yet here I sit in my Megadeth T-shirt, dirt broke, middle-aged, downing a carton of vanilla ice cream and spilling it on my computer keyboard.”

— Gay columnist John Weir writing about “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” for The New York Times, Aug. 10.

“I know exactly who y’all are. I’m working so that people don’t have heartburn over your issues.”

— George W. Bush to former Log Cabin Republicans chairman Bob Kabel, about a year ago, according to U.S. News & World Report, Aug. 18, 2003.