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Quote UnQuote

Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 19-Apr-2007 in issue 1008

“Yes, I do [think I’d be open to having a woman as a lover]. I don’t know how you describe me then. I think there are some things I could say that are not politically correct, but I have to say that it definitely would be a possibility, depending on the person.”

Actress Cybill Shepherd to the D.C. gay magazine Metro Weekly, March 22.

“I will not be rendering judgment about individual orientation. I do believe the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy is good policy.”

President George W. Bush when FOX News Channel correspondent Bret Baier asked at an April 3 press conference: “Since General Pace made his comments that got a lot of attention about homosexuality, we haven’t heard from you on that issue. Do you, sir, believe that homosexuality is immoral?

“I think there are four kinds of gays in Hollywood. There’s the openly gay; the gay and everybody knows it but nobody talks about it; the married, closeted gay who doesn’t talk about it; and the screaming ‘I’ll sue you if you say I’m gay’ person. In other words, the no closet, the glass closet, the cast iron closet, and the closet you get buried in.”

Howard Bragman, CEO of the PR firm Fifteen Minutes, to Out magazine, May issue.

“I don’t out anyone, people out themselves, it’s a choice. I report on the private lives of public figures who make a choice to live their lives in the public eye. I don’t believe in discrimination so I’m going to treat everyone the same, gay or straight, out or not.”

Blogger Perez Hilton to London’s Pink Paper, March 22.

“Anderson Cooper has finessed it where straight women who have a crush on him think he’s straight and gay men actually think he’s out.”

Writer and outing inventor Michelangelo Signorile to Out magazine, May issue.

“I was around when the very first wave of AIDS hit us; it was like a tsunami, and the government wasn’t even addressing it. Gay men and women came together to kick ass like I’d never seen. That was an exciting time.”

Village Voice columnist Michael Musto to Windy City Times, March 21.

“America is my second home. I slept with half of it and came out HIV negative. I’m a lucky, lucky person.”

From a list of Elton John’s 60 “most memorable quotes” published March 24 by the British newspaper The Sun to celebrate Elton’s 60th birthday.

“They [gay newspapers] are becoming more like mainstream media and, in that sense, they are less necessary. They have cheapened themselves out of a role to a large extent. What they ought to be doing is investing resources in producing quality writing, investigative reporting, long features—real writing that isn’t otherwise available.”

Larry Gross, director of the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication, commenting on the gay press’s use of mainstream wire copy from the Associated Press, to the San Diego Union-Tribune, April 5.