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QUOTE UNQUOTE "I think it (same-sex marriage) should be legalized. I think it's about finding your soul mate. It's finding that person you connect with. But most people don't get it right. Look at me! The thing is, I don't know if I ever will or won't get married again. I'm very happy where I am. I just think I jinx marriages, but that's not going to stop me from loving." —Singer Janet Jackson to E! Online, April 22
"I'd be upset (if my boyfriend came out as gay) because I want to be with him. It's so funny because I joke with him that it drives me crazy to be a girl sometimes, so in my next life I'm going to come back as a guy and (he's) going to be my bitch. But if he liked guys, I would be crushed." —Singer Janet Jackson to E! Online, April 22..
"You (gay celebrities) get a lot of baggage coming at you from the gay world -- to behave in a certain manner, to say a certain thing and be a certain person. And I've always been very lefty, very urban and very downtown in the way that I deliver my message, and that's very hard on a lot of middle-class, mainstream quote-unquote gay people. I've never been one of 'the gays' -- I've always been one of the queers." —Comic/singer/actress Lea DeLaria to the Kansas gay magazine Liberty Press, April issue. "They let me play straight people and they let me play gay people. They let me play men and women and anything I want to play. So I'm really lucky in that respect because a lot of times if gay people come out they're just stuck playing a certain kind of role for the rest of their life."
"I couldn't win any fight. Anyone could beat me up. So in high school, as a juvenile delinquent hag, basically, I learned that people who would beat you up, if you could make them laugh, they wouldn't beat you up, and maybe they'd sleep with you!"
—Comic/singer/actress Lea DeLaria to the Kansas gay magazine Liberty Press, April issue.
—Gay filmmaker John Waters on TV's The Daily Show, April 22.
—Actress Tori Spelling to Philadelphia Gay News, April 11.
—Queer Eye food guy Ted Allen to San Diego's Gay & Lesbian Times, April 17.
"Under an Obama administration, the United States will lead by setting a strong example, which includes making clear that asylum for persecuted people is a bedrock principle of American and international law. Moreover, Obama will exert diplomatic pressure and employ other foreign policy tools to encourage other nations to address human rights abuses and atrocities committed against LGBT men and women."
"This is the 4000th post on JMG. As I said in December for post 3000, what HAVE we been going on about? Oh, wait. I do know: blah, bears, blah, gay marriage, blah, wingnuts, blah, Clintobama, blah-dee-freekin-blah. Sheesh." —Popular gay blogger Joe Jervis (Joe.My.God.), April 18. PA G E 4 4 •
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poll supports this view. It found that three-quarters of Afghanistan and Iraq veterans were comfortable interacting with gay people." —Lawrence J. Korb, assistant secretary of defense under President Reagan, testifying before the House Committee on Armed Services, April 16.
—Statement from Barack Obama's campaign, April 21.
"This tribute to Harvey Milk is long overdue. It is indeed time for his legacy to be commemorated with a place of honor and distinction in San Francisco's City Hall." "I don't think that the LGBT community should take its cues from me or some political leader in terms of what they think is right for them. Real change comes from the bottom up, not the top down. As your president, I will fight to make LGBT equality a reality at the federal level. But it is the LGBT community that has to decide what is in their best interest, and to help make it happen by engaging actively with the political process." —Barack Obama to the Carolinas gay newspaper Q-Notes, April 30. "If you're reading these words I will have put down my camera, switched off the lights, drawn the curtains and taken my final bow. May all the efforts and work of a whole life, the quest for the moment of pure truth in the sublime communion of two beings under the spell of the undefinable desire for the other, inspire those who inherit my heart." —From the final post on the blog of famed French gay porn director Jean Daniel Cadinot, who died April 23 of a heart attack at age 64.
"I just did my book-signing tour and I went to San Francisco and it was such a great moment because there's a drag queen called Suppositori Spelling and I've totally been a fan and wanted to meet her for years. I took a photo and will put it on my MySpace."
"I have something of a weakness for potato chips. An enormous weakness, actually. I live and die for salty, crispy food. I'd rather have potato chips than ice cream or chocolate."
BY REX WOCKNER WITH BILL KELLEY
"Over the past 10 years more than 10,000 personnel have been discharged as a result of (Don't Ask, Don't Tell), including 800 with skills deemed 'mission critical,' such as pilots, combat engineers, and linguists. These are the very job functions for which the military has experienced personnel shortfalls. General John M. Shalikashvili, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1993 when the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy was enacted, no longer supports the policy because he now believes that allowing gay men and women to serve openly in the military would no longer create intolerable tension among personnel and undermine cohesion. A recent Zogby • G A Y L I F E • www.baltimoregaylife.com
—San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom in a press release about a sculpture that will be installed in City Hall's Ceremonial Rotunda on May 22. Milk, an openly gay city supervisor, was assassinated in 1978. "The episode contained several scenes of the gay couple with their baby as well as the presenter's congratulations and acknowledgement of them as a family unit in a way which normalises their gay lifestyle and unconventional family setup. This is in breach of the Free-to-Air TV Programme Code which disallows programmes that promote, justify or glamourise gay lifestyles." —Singapore's Media Development Authority in an April 24 decision fining Channel 5 $11,000 for an episode of "Find and Design." "I never struggled with it (being gay) or thought about it. It's something that tends to come up when you hit puberty, but my attendance at junior high and high school was brief and very sporadic. My parents didn't seem to have any issue with gayness. I had no religious upbringing whatsoever, so I had no concept of it being a sin." —Running With Scissors author Augusten Burroughs to The Advocate, May 6. "There are some inconvenient truths that I'm now a born-again, sanctified, saved-in-the-blood Christian. So much of what's said and done in the name of that Christianity is appalling. According to my Bible, which I didn't write, homosexuality is immoral. But homosexuality is no more or less a sin than fornication. And I'm a fornicator with a capital F." —Singer Michelle Shocked to the Dallas Voice, April 18.