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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 07-Jun-2007 in issue 1015

“You are naked in front of 35 strangers, simulating sex with someone you may or may not be attracted to … naked in front of a bunch of weirdoes, and there is someone holding a microphone over your head and they are spritzing you with water and oil to make you look sweaty, and they are like, ‘Can you put your head back, put your hand back on his ass and we will start from there.’ That is ridiculous, that whole concept. … So if you are gay and you can’t handle the fact that I didn’t like the gay sex scenes, or you are straight and you automatically think I am gay, then you are both the same asshole, and I have no interest in talking to you. The truth is I did it because I think it deserved to be done. As hard as it was, that meant it was more of a mission. I had a reason to do it.”

“Queer As Folk” actor Hal Sparks (Michael Novotny) to the Florida gay magazine The Gazette, May issue

“He is purple – the gay pride color; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle – the gay pride symbol. The character, whose voice is that of a boy, has been found carrying a red purse in many episodes and has become a favorite character among gay groups worldwide. … Role-modeling the gay lifestyle is damaging to the moral lives of children. These subtle depictions are no doubt intentional and parents are warned to be alert to these elements of the series.”

The Rev. Jerry Falwell outing the Tinky Winky of the “Teletubbies” in 1999. Falwell died May 15 at age 73.

“I’m not going to pretend I’m sadder than I am. There were late nights during the dark times when I wished to hear news like this. I’d be lying if I denied that. I don’t feel that way anymore. I like to think I’ve grown over the years, gotten past all that pain. But at the end of the day, I’m not terribly sad, and I think a lot of people feel the same way. Jerry Falwell was a divisive person, a hateful person, and what I’ve tried to be all about, in the Teletubbies days and since then, has been love. I’ve got to keep it that way. I don’t want anybody feeling good about it when it’s my time for Tubby bye-bye.”

Tinky Winky, speaking to Salon.com from his home in London’s Islington neighborhood, May 16.

“I greeted with relief the news that Rosie O’Donnell will be leaving ABC’s ‘The View.’ … What a crass solipsist, clod and yahoo O’Donnell is – and what a bad advertisement for both liberalism and lesbianism. I thoroughly enjoyed Donald Trump putting the shiv to her with his eye-opening insults of withering accuracy. The list of O’Donnell’s faults overfloweth – beginning with her stentorian humorlessness and her infantile rudeness to her cohosts and ending with her crackpot conspiracy theories and her constant flaunting of her banal regimen of antidepressants.”

Author and academic Camille Paglia writing at Salon.com, May 9.

“The Supremes have always had a huge gay following, probably to do with the glamour. When we were coming up, to be so glamorous at that stage in American history was definitely different.”

Mary Wilson to the Palm Springs gay magazine The Bottom Line, April 27.

“Older people get laid a lot more than younger people think – we’re a lot more randy than younger people think we should be. If younger people think about us at all, they’ll at best begrudgingly admit that we can have lovers – long-term lovers, mind you, not five-times-a-week trade but only on condition that they should be other old people. Well, have I got news for them.”

Gay author Edmund White to Britain’s Gay Times magazine, May issue.