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Published Thursday, 01-Feb-2007 in issue 997
“I don’t even want Kevin Spacey to come out anymore. He’s not really a noteworthy celebrity anymore. So he really missed the boat. And as much as Jodie Foster has never come out and said, ‘Hey, I am straight,’ she has never come out and expressed her private issues. I would just love for her to take a stand. That would make a huge difference in the world.”
Village Voice columnist Michael Musto to Planetout.com, Jan. 6.
“It’s a decidedly American concept that in America, it’s still perceived that being gay is bad and that being gay and out in Hollywood will hurt your career. That’s a false concept that I don’t believe. I don’t buy into it. I’m not going to perpetuate it because it’s not true. I dare you to name one person who came out and their career went to the – after. If anything, it will help. All the comings-out have helped.”
Mario Lavandeira Perezhilton.com to the Los Angeles Daily News, Jan. 6.
“[F]or so long, everyone was so worried about it [coming out]. ‘Will it hurt my [Hollywood] career?’ ‘Is that all people are going to talk about?’ ‘Will the audience care?’ The fact of the matter is, we are now at a place where it now doesn’t matter. You can come out, acknowledge your sexuality and move on.”
Actor Chad Allen (“Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman,” “End of the Spear”) to the Los Angeles Daily News, Jan. 6.
“I have come to realize, having played the part, the inequality is striking. It is actually shocking to me. I had no idea about the rights that are not afforded to gays and lesbians. I think that because I am playing a gay woman, I started to take it really personally when I read stories about it to become aware of issues.”
“The L Word” actress Jennifer Beals to Los Angeles’ Lesbian News, January issue.
“It is urgent that pro-family citizens – Republicans, Democrats and independents alike – contact their U.S. Representative and Senators, as well as President Bush, to state their opposition to passage of all pro-homosexuality ‘sexual orientation’ bills in the new Congress. At the top of the ‘gay’ wish-list is ENDA, which we are calling the ‘ENDA-Our Freedom’ Bill because it would use federal power to force businesses to support and subsidize homosexuality and gender confusion (‘transgender’ lifestyles: think men in dresses, using female restrooms).”
From a Jan. 5 e-mail alert from “Americans for Truth.”
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