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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 30-Nov-2006 in issue 988

“Doogie Howser wasn’t outed, he was ‘lanced.’ That’s a new term to describe celebrities who have been forced to reveal they’re gay, said Reichen Lehmkuhl, boyfriend of ‘N Sync star Lance Bass. ‘It’s to be outed by someone in the public media and to [be] a celebrity, and Neil Patrick Harris, I understand, has been “lanced,”’ Lehmkuhl told AP Radio News.”

The Associated Press wire service, Nov. 7.

“A lot of the chiefs of staff, the people who really run the underpinnings of the Republican Party, are gay. [RNC chair] Ken Mehlman. OK, there’s one I think people have talked about. I don’t think he’s denied it when he’s been – people have suggested – he doesn’t say ‘I’m not.’”

TV talk-show host Bill Maher appearing on CNN’s “Larry King Live,” Nov. 8. CNN removed the attempted outing from rebroadcasts of the show and forced YouTube to delete a clip of the remarks, claiming that blogger John Aravosis, who posted the clip, had violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. King responded to Maher that he’d “never heard” that Mehlman is gay. Maher replied, “Maybe you don’t go to the same bathhouse I do, Larry.” The following day, CNN reported that Mehlman will step down from his job by the end of the year. This publication has no independent knowledge of Mehlman’s sexual orientation.

“No matter how long he struggled, no matter how much faith he had, [Ted] Haggard’s sexual orientation remained unchanged. Nothing helped. Not prayer, not Jesus H. Christ on his cross. Nothing. … The ex-gay thing is over. It’s dead. It was bullshit from the start. And I will personally track down and bitch-slap the next fundie douche who sends me an e-mail explaining how Jesus can cure me. And I will personally track down and shit in the mouth of the next cable news anchor who entertains the notion of a miracle cure for homosexuality. Consider yourself warned, Paula Zahn.”

Syndicated columnist Dan Savage, Nov. 14.

“Praise Jesus, the Christian right’s stranglehold on culture and morality is over. As pointed out by Slate, the all-powerful evangelical church’s bizarre and insufferable run of influence has peaked, and its easy access to Washington is now falling away like Tom DeLay’s toupee during the Apocalypse. And Ted Haggard, bless his little meth-happy gay soul, provided the final nail in the coffin of religious right hypocrisy at just the right moment. It’s almost as if it were … ordained.”

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford, Nov. 10.

“We’ll have been together 36 years in March. … It’s a matter of commitment and something that binds you soulwise. I don’t know what it is. I can’t imagine Jane [Wagner] not being in my life. If you really know what there is to love about someone, it really can’t be violated. Our families are intertwined and I’m close to her sister too. It just is.”

Actress/comedian Lily Tomlin to the Carolinas gay newspaper Q-Notes, Nov. 4.

Assistance: Bill Kelley