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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 14-Jun-2007 in issue 1016

“Jerry Falwell found out that you could launder your hate through the cover of God’s will. He didn’t hate gays; God does. All Jerry Falwell’s power came from name-dropping God, and gay people should steal that trick. … Don’t say you want something because it’s your right as a human being, say you want it because it’s your religion. Gay men have been going at things backwards. Forget civil rights and just make gayness a religion. I mean, you’re kneeling anyway. … Gay men, don’t say you’re life partners, say you’re a nunnery of two. ‘We weren’t having sex, officer; I was performing a very private mass. Here in my car. I was letting my rod and my staff comfort him. Take this and eat of it, for this is my roommate Barry.’”

Bill Maher on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” May 18.

“Perhaps they knew not what they did, but the picture the White House released of Vice President Dick Cheney, coming as close as he does to a smile, and his beaming wife, Lynne, cradling their newborn grandson, Samuel David Cheney, was a milestone in the nation’s struggle for human rights for all. Never again will it be possible for conservative Republicans to shun homosexuals in any facet of American life without appearing outrageously hypocritical.”

Robert Scheer writing at truthdig.com, May 29. Samuel is the son of Mary Cheney and her partner Heather Poe.

“We [partner Jane Wagner and I] never wanted to be poster people for anything because the poster usually gets ripped off the side of the building, or something gets plastered over it. We just wanted to be who we were and go on. I am glad that people may be heartened by our relationship, but I am just a human and so is she. I don’t want to set myself up as some symbol, or ideal.”

Actress and comedienne Lily Tomlin when asked about being a “model for successful, long-term lesbian couples,” to the Vancouver gay newspaper Xtra! West, May 10.

“What, after all, did we say that wasn’t already in the public domain?

Anderson Cooper’s sexuality has been acknowledged without caveat in this publication, among others, for several years, and it’s no secret that Jodie Foster has been in a relationship with another woman for many years. Believe us, these are not people still choosing their moment to tell mother – which makes their guardedness on the subject all the more mystifying and the collusion of the press in guarding it for them even more so.”

Out magazine Editor in Chief Aaron Hicklin in a June editorial defending the magazine’s May cover-story outings of not-really-closeted CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and actress Jodie Foster.

“Who had a clue? We didn’t. We just went in and recorded it and laughed.”

Singer Martha Wash of Weather Girls fame discussing their 1982 hit “It’s Raining Men,” to Instinct magazine, June issue.

“The first half [of Angels in America] was very tightly structured. In the second half, things come undone. I could rewrite Perestroika for the rest of my life, and it would never achieve a taut, perfect form. It’s open-ended. I don’t see that as a fault, necessarily; it’s just inherently shaggy.”

Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner to Britain’s Gay Times, June issue.

Assistance: Bill Kelley