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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 19-Oct-2006 in issue 982

“I don’t understand why you want to know [if I’m gay]. I don’t understand why it’s any of your business. At some point, [the question] becomes just really rude, you know? … I’ve gotten to a point where I feel it’s invasive. Forget it. What I do in my private life is nobody’s business anymore, period. … I’m not spending my time with this anymore. This is a waste of my time.”

“American Idol” star Clay Aiken to Diane Sawyer on TV’s “Good Morning America,” Sept. 21.

“Fuck them. I have never bashed any gays before, and if I bashed gays, I bashed them 16 years ago. There’s no tolerance from [the gay community]. I’m not a gay-basher. I’m not a homophobe.”

Jamaican dancehall reggae singer Buju Banton to billboard.com, Sept. 29. The lyrics to Banton’s 1992 hit” Boom Bye Bye” include: “Boom bye bye / Inna batty bwoy head / Rude bwoy no promote no nasty man / Dem haffi dead / Send fi di matic an / Di Uzi instead / Shoot dem no come if we shot dem / Guy come near we / Then his skin must peel / Burn him up bad like an old tire wheel.” “Batty bwoy” is a pejorative Jamaican term for “gay man.”

“how my favorite young stud doing … did any girl give you a haand [sic] job this weekend … good so your [sic] getting horny … did you spank it this weekend yourself … I have aa [sic] totally stiff wood now … is your little guy limp … or growing … i am hard as a rock … so tell me when your [sic] reaches rock … get a ruler and measure it for me … strip down and get relaxed … do I make you a little horny”

From AOL instant messages sent by then U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., to teenage House pages, according to “ABC News.” Foley, who was outed in the gay press more than 10 years ago, resigned Sept. 29 after ABC read some of the IMs to his spokesperson.

“[Mark Foley] had an enormous need to be caught and punished. You don’t send e-mails to underage pages unless you want to be caught, and that’s directly related to impoverished self-esteem and the need to be punished.”

Richard Isay, a Weill Cornell Medical College psychiatry professor and author who has studied gay men, to “ABC News,” Oct. 5.

“Many entries featured scantily clad participants, mostly men, gyrating suggestively to loud, throbbing music. Float titles included ‘In Dmood for Decadence.’ Simulated sex acts were performed in several entries, and many advertised gay bars, pornography vendors, and male prostitution businesses. A rider in the Rentboy.com convertible flashed the devil sign with his hand. Handouts to parade spectators included condoms, sexual lubricant samples, and literature promoting a pornographic web site. Numerous trash receptacles bearing the slogan ‘Got lube?’ (advertising an anal sex lubricant) were placed along the parade route and in the festival venue inside Balboa Park.”

From a breathless report entitled “City Council Shames Itself Over Pride” in the September/October issue of the far-right Catholic magazine San Diego News Notes, which is published by Jim Holman, owner and editor of the city’s dominant alternative-weekly newspaper, The Reader. The Reader likely stands alone among large U.S. alternative-weekly newspapers in rejecting gay personal ads. Holman bans them because he chooses “not to be an agent for immoral behavior.”

Assistance: Bill Kelley