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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 22-Feb-2007 in issue 1000

“I decided when I was younger that I was never going to come out. I was planning to get married and have kids, be closeted about it and force myself to be something I knew I wasn’t. … I was always the jock. I always got the girls. I was always put in that real ‘masculine’ limelight. But don’t get me wrong – I do have my feminine moments. You can tell I’m gay. My friends say I’m getting gayer and gayer by the minute!”

J.P. Calderon, who was on last season’s “Survivor,” to Instinct magazine, February issue.

“Last year, Moscow came under unprecedented pressure to sanction the gay parade, which can be described in no other way than as satanic. We did not let the parade take place then, and we are not going to allow it in the future. … Some European nations bless single-sex marriages and introduce sexual guides in schools. Such things are a deadly moral poison for children.”

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Jan. 29. Because of last year’s ban, the city’s first gay-pride march was downsized to an attempt to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, then walk a few blocks for a rally across from City Hall. The participants were violently attacked by neofascists, skinheads, Christians and riot police.

“When Heather and I decided to have a baby, I knew it wasn’t going to be the most popular decision. This is a baby. This is a blessing from God. It is not a political statement. It is not a prop to be used in a debate, on either side of a political issue. It is my child. … Every piece of remotely responsible research that has been done in the last 20 years has shown there is no difference between children raised by same-sex parents and children raised by opposite-sex parents; what matters is being raised in a stable, loving environment.”

Mary Cheney, daughter of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, speaking Jan. 31 at Barnard College in Manhattan, according to The New York Times.

“For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are [of] terrorists, but they’re very brave with the terrorists. … If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they’d get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.”

U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Feb. 7.

“Marriage, to me, is a waste of time whether you’re gay or straight. [Y]ou can’t put down on paper something that’s not quantified on paper. The last thing I want to do as a gay man is clone straight society.”

Actor Rupert Everett to the Chicago gay newspaper Windy City Times, Jan. 24.

“I’ve been called a bitch – and a lot worse – for years. And you know what, so what? People who think that aren’t going to change their minds. And I wouldn’t dream of sending them to therapy to ‘rehabilitate’ their feelings. How absurd. Please, I call all my gay friends ‘big fags.’”

Actress Sharon Stone on the Isaiah Washington brouhaha, to the New York Post, Jan. 30.

Assistance: Bill Kelley