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| "Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native-born, immigrant, straight or gay -- whatever -- the test [for acceptance by others] ought to be: I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independece. I believe in religious liberty, I believe in freedom of speech and I believe in working hard and playing by the rules." - Bill Clinton in his speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I believe strongly that what we're dealing with here is the defining civil rights issue of this decade. ...What are you tring to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't meant that John and Mary can't. Marriage licenses aren't distributed on a first come, first served basis here in Iowa. Heterosexual couples don't have to rush out and claim marriage licenses before they are all snatched up by gay and lesbian couples. Heterosexual unions are and will continue to be predominant, regardless of what gay and lesbian couples do. To suggest that homosexual couples in any way, shape or form threaten to undermine the stability of heterosexual unions is patently absurd. And I know you'll say: 'What about the gay agenda?' Well, just as there turned out to be no Bolsheviks in the bathroom back in the 1950s, there is no gay agenda in the 1990s. There is, however, a strong, well-funded anti-gay agenda, and we have an example of it's efforts here before us today." - From a speech delivered on the floor of the Iowa House by state Rep. Ed Fallon in opposition to legislation prohibiting recognition of gay marriages performed in other states | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Socialists, Beef Club, UFO Club, Hispanic Club, Key Club, Native American Club, Human Rights Club, CrazE Club, Young Democrats, Bowling Club, Highland Film Critics, Highlands Young Poet Society, Ethnic Alliance, Hat Club for Men and Women, RAOHH (Reggae Ambassadors), Sabotage, UFO (Ultimate Frisbee Organization), Advancement of Hispanic Students, Meat Club, Nordburg Club, Simpsons Club, LaCrosse Club, Ski and Board Shafters, Star Wars Club, Builders Club, Chinese Checkers Club, Environmental Club, Fencing Club, Funk Dance Club, Gamers Club, HIS Club (Bible study club), International Club, Latino Pride Club, Multi-Cultural Club, Outdoor Club, Paintballers Club, Pep Club, Polynesian Club, Students Against Drunk Driving, Students of the Orient, Vision Society, Young Republicans." - High-school clubs banned by the Salt Lake City Board of Education after they determined it was the only way to legally eradicate a new gay/lesbian student club. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother." - Cher's lesbian daughter, Chastity Bono, to Oregon's Just Out. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I would never sing Over The Rainbow. I go berzerk when I hear people sing that song. It belongs to Judy." - Liza Minnelli to London's Gay Times | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "It's these propaganda queens who are really hurting us. These people who put out the lie that we're just the same [as heterosexuals] and that we we're just straight people who fuck our own; that's just not true." - Kids In The Halls' Scott Thompson to San Francisco Bay Times | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "The Gay Men's Chorus in New York... Did this little parody called... The Life and Loves of Martina and they have various people playing Rita Mae Brown and Judy Nelson and I don't know who else. It was sort of a tongue-in-cheek tribute to me. A one-time thing. Now they're supposedly going to do a six-week run on the West Coast. And I'm like, OK, so you want me to be out, you want me to tell you everything about my life, and then you make fun of it! And this is my people! This is not Pat Buchanan or Pat Robertson doing that is doing it. This is my people doing it! I don't need this shit. So, from now on I'm not telling anything about my private life." - Martina Navratilova to Denver's Out Front | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Most times, the only gay or lesbian face people know of is who they see in the pride parade. To judge us on that would be like judging heterosexuals after watching Mardi Gras." - Candice Gingrich, House Speaker Newt Gingrich's lesbian sister, to the Boston Alternative | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "[In West Hollywood] status is established by the make of your car, the style of your hair, the cost of your clothing, the source of your mineral water, the shape of your nose... the breed of your dog... the influence of your agent and the tone of your body." - The new Fodor's Gay Guide to the USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "[W]ithout consulting the rest of us mere mortals, [NGLTF] suddenly rename[d] us 'the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgendered movement' or, as one of NGLTF's leaders recently said in a press release, 'the g/l/b/t community.' Sounds like a sandwich. ...NGLTF's often dated and unrealistic political dogma will be cast off by the gay masses in due time." - Out magazine columnist Michelangelo Signorile | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I like dogs [better than people]. They give you unconditional love. Either they lick your face or bite you, but you always know where they're coming from. With people, you never know which ones will bite. The difference between dogs and men is you know where dogs sleep at night." - Gay, HIV-positive Olympic gold-medal diver Greg Louganis to the Philadelphia Inquirer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States." - Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter in The Los Angeles Times | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I'm looking for a hunk myself. ... People that want to get married should do that [get married]. I don't see any reason why it has to be gender-specific. ... Whatever gender that decides to hitch up should be their business." - U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, D-Ill | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "You would think that those who are always talking about family values would want to create an environment of permanant relationships for people of the same sex. But they're not advocating family values. They're advocating their values. ...I get this shit full-time. ...They just are haters, period." - San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown to The Advocate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "It's our Pearl Harbor." - Traditional Values Coalition Chairman Lou Sheldon on the pending Hawaii Supreme Court case that is expected to legalize gay marriage there | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "If they don't want me to get 'married', if that's bugging 'them' -- fine. But I do believe that as an American citizen, a law-abiding, taxpaying -- major taxpaying -- citizen, that I should be allowed the same rights, the pursuit of happiness that every other citizen enjoys. ...Whatever they want to call it. As long as we have the same legal benefits and protections for me, and for my family. That's all." - Lesbian Rocker Melissa Etheridge to Newsweek | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "[The] principal House sponsor [of the federal anti-gay marriage law, 'The Defense of Marriage Act'], Bob Barr of Georgia, his district confirms, has been married three times -- which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision." - New York Times columnist Frank Rich | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "It's encouraging to see how far our fast-paced civil rights movement has traveled in four years. When candidate [Bill] Clinton was asked about gay marriage [in 1992], it was a throwaway question. His negative reply sounded no alarms. Gay marriage seemed a century away. What changed was our prospects, not Clinton's stance. He's just out of step with a future that's arriving more quickly than most of us had ever dreamed." - Syndicated lesbian columnist Deb Price | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "He went [to the Republican convention] as a Dole delagate and I went to see some of the tackiest women I'd ever seen, bejeweled in red-white-and-blue glitter, with high hair and elephant ear-bobs the size of tennis balls." - Rob Morris, speaking of his lover, U.S. Rep. Steve Gunderson, R-Wis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Gay people ... were the first to find me, and they got everything, they're so sharp. I'll look out in the audience and I see three or four gay guys right in the front row, or a couple of lesbians, I know it's gonna be a good show." - Joan Rivers to Denver's Out Front | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "They offered me either the Queen or the Lincoln [bedrooms]. Being from San Francisco, the Queen intrigued me. [But] I'm doing the Lincoln. He Cut me loose." - San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown on spending a night at the White House | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I clicked my heels and said 'there's no place like home, there's no place like home.' I just didn't have those ruby slippers." Anacortes, Wash., boat mechanic Steve Burton to the AP when he couldn't get home because flooding closed Interstate 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Even within the safer-sex parameters, you add up all the odds over an entire lifetime and many gay men feel it's inevitable they'll contract HIV. That's a very hard psychological barrier to break through for prevention, education and, indeed, just morale." - New Republic Senior Editor Andrew Sullivan to The New York Times. Sullivan is HIV-positive. [Editor: this is Sullivan's current title] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I wish President Clinton were more direct, more hands-on [about AIDS]. He's been given a chance to turn the world around and to be outspoken on an issue that's controversial to still so many people, but it would take enormous daring. I really thought he had the chutzpah and the cojones." - Elizabeth Taylor to The Advocate. (Cojones is Spanish for balls) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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