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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 22-Mar-2007 in issue 1004

“I do want to point out one thing that has been driving me crazy with the media – how they keep describing Mitt Romney’s position as being pro-gays, and that’s going to upset the right-wingers. Well, you know, screw you! I’m not anti-gay. We’re against gay marriage. I don’t want gays to be discriminated against. I don’t know why all gays aren’t Republican. I think we have the pro-gay positions, which is anti-crime and for tax cuts. Gays make a lot of money and they’re victims of crime. No, they are! They should be with us.”

Pundit Ann Coulter addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference, March 2.

“I was kissing her because that’s what you do, you kiss your loved one when you win an Oscar, that’s what I grew up believing.”

Singer Melissa Etheridge backstage at the Oscars Feb. 25 after she kissed wife Tammy Lynn Michaels before accepting the best-original-song trophy for “I Need to Wake Up” from Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.

“I’ll try anything once and if I like it I’ll go back! Even at my age, I still consider myself sexual, but I don’t consider myself bisexual or homosexual or heterosexual. I think that those are trapping words. They paint sex as some sort of philosophical thing. We spend more time going to the john than having sex – I would hate to be identified by how I go to the john!”

Poet Rod McKuen to the Palm Springs gay magazine The Bottom Line, Feb. 16.

“We don’t know how many citizens … have this unusual sexual orientation, but the gay clubs are free to carry out their sexual activity. What we say is that we are against propagating, we are against promoting. Like any other society, we want to protect ourselves from the promotion of alcohol and tobacco. When we promote smoking, it’s bad, it’s wrong. [T]hrough the gay parade you promote some uncertain people and it becomes an invitation to acquire this quality of the sexual minorities. [It is saying that] this is OK, that’s normal, this is useful. Our view is that it is wrong and unusual. Let the gay people do what they do, but they shouldn’t involve other citizens of our country. … I am not going to allow the gay parade.”

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov during a press conference in London with the pro-gay mayor of London and the openly gay mayors of Berlin and Paris, Feb. 28. The four had just finished their annual summit, which also was attended this year by the mayor of Beijing.

“Yuri! You do not become homosexual, there is no risk of propaganda. This is not a disease you catch at some point. It is somehow part of our identity. Some of us have brown skin, some of us have fair skin, some of us have brown eyes, some of us have blue eyes. We are born heterosexual or homosexual. And that’s it.”

Openly gay Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë to Mayor Luzhkov at the same press conference.

“I came out when I was 27 and I couldn’t stop talking about it actually. My friends thought it was a career death wish. But I have always been really grateful that I wasn’t in the closet, and I didn’t have to spend so much energy concealing because it really does change the integrity of your work. And when you see somebody perform and then they come out, you just see a freedom, you know, like Rosie. There’s a certain freedom and power in regaining your authentic self.”

Comedian Kate Clinton to the Palm Springs gay magazine The Bottom Line, March 2.