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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 15-Feb-2007 in issue 999

“Being black, usually we’re on the receiving end of bigoted and discriminatory remarks, so for him to say it, I guess we have overcome. Maybe gay is the new black now.”

Comedian Wanda Sykes discussing the Isaiah Washington “faggot” brouhaha with Ellen DeGeneres on her Jan. 26 show.

“I have contributed to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign because she has a mind of her own and a very strong one at that. I like the way she thinks. She is very savvy and a smart leader with years of experience in government, diplomacy and politics.”

Elizabeth Taylor in a Jan. 25 statement.

“The Age of Aquarius meant free love for everyone except gay people. I felt isolated and remember asking girls who wanted me to sign their breasts if they had any paper. I always had this feeling if I outed myself too soon and we sold one less album that they would blame me. It’s better [now]. Sony has a gay label. In my time, the only gay label was faggot.”

’70s rock star Chuck Panozzo, the bass player in Styx, to POZ magazine, February issue. Panozzo also is openly HIV-positive.

“I have no desire to have children of my own. My civil partner is equally happy childless. As a result, for us, the question of gay adoption is academic. Indeed, we often wonder why some of our friends, intent on adopting, can’t settle for a Shih Tzu and a couple of Persian cats like any normal gay couple.”

David Self, author of the Lion Encyclopedia of Christianity, writing in Britain’s Telegraph, Jan. 28.

“Oral and anal sex are not pleasurable and have no benefit at all to those who take part in it. Most of them [gays], if they are to be honest, will admit that the parts with which they engage in the unnatural sexual acts are always painful.”

Kenya Anti-Rape Movement founder Fatma Anyanzwa to the Sunday Nation newspaper Jan. 28 after African gays and lesbians made a big, groundbreaking splash at the recent World Social Forum in Nairobi.

“Go ahead and vote for the same-sex marriages. You won’t be glad you did when you start noticing more natural disasters or epidemics! Why do you think homosexuals get AIDS? It’s judgement sent to them from God. God sends judgement to those who commit sin, and that’s everyone, including myself. I thank God for sending me judgement so I can be reminded from day to day that I am a sinner. For those who don’t know God sent Hurricane Katrina to New Orleans because that city is what I call ‘Sin City of the U.S.’ Did you know the name Katrina means purifier?”

Reader Michael Guyer of Neoga, Ill., in a letter to the Journal Gazette in Mattoon, Ill., Jan. 20.

“I’m the only one that goes [to Pride nowadays]. No one thinks it’s a cool place to be spotted at anymore.”

Village Voice columnist Michael Musto in an interview with syndicated Canadian gay columnist Richard Burnett, Jan. 18.

Assistance: Bill Kelley