Aug. 7, 2002
All publications Front Page Nightspots Blacklines En La Vida Out! Resource Guide Current WCT Issue	Quotelines "I turned gay about five years ago. I always had women as a second dish, for when I was a bit fed up with men. But now I have a relationship with a woman, Dia, that I write quite a bit about in [my memoir], and we've been together five years." ... Xaviera Hollander, author of The Happy Hooker (1972), to The Advocate, Aug. 20. "Rosie O'Donnell, a daytime talk show host, goes public with her sexual preference, and she is lauded as brave. What exactly is brave about that? First of all, who cares? And what's brave about getting the chance to be interviewed by ABC, and landing on magazine covers? I characterize it as bravery-as-a-career-move. It's just another example of the self-importance that Show Business bestows on you...the idea that your sexual preference matters to anyone other than your immediate family and your partner or partners, seems silly to me." ... Pat Sajack, Host, Wheel Of Fortune, from a speech delivered at Hillsdale College, in Michigan, according to IMPRIMIS, July 2002. "When you're growing up as a homosexual in the Catholic Church, the mechanism of sin and guilt is actually something that drives one towards promiscuity. Because the Catholic Church has no middle way. It's either you're a sinner or you're a saint. ... I feel that celibacy is a thing...it hasn't worked in the priesthood, after all...I don't see how it's going to work for the man on the street. It's hard enough to convince the man on the street to use a condom, let alone be celibate. ... Most of us men spend a lot of our lives with our brains lodged in the heads of our penises, and that's just a reality." ... Gay movie star Rupert Everett speaking at the 14th International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, July 11. "There is the whole notion that AIDS is over in the United States, that it's not a problem any more. Prevention messages are not working. We do have gay men barebacking. We have risk groups sharing needles again. We've got heterosexuals that have no idea what's going on. We have a whole generation of people under the age of 30 that don't remember the AIDS epidemic, that think it's nothing more than, 'Hell, you take a couple of pills and you'll be fine.'" ... Scott Brawley, director of public policy for the U.S. national lobby group AIDS Action, in an interview with this column at the 14th International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, July 7. "More important than legislation, more important than fundraising, more important than any kind of organizing we do, self-esteem is fundamental to changing the way people think about gay people. It is not through asking for other people's permission that we're going to achieve anything. Nobody likes a whiner, seriously. We need to stop asking them for permission and start telling them that we don't need their permission." ... Actor Peter Paige, Emmett on Queer As Folk, to the Rehoboth Beach Gayzette, July 19. "I remember thinking how ironic it was that I was this gay guy playing this American icon." ... Actor Robert Gant who plays Ben Bruckner (Michael's lover) on the U.S. Queer As Folk, in reference to TV commercials he did as the Good Humor Man, to Advocate.com, July 24. "People in the industry who are openly gay ... were pretty split right down the middle with respect to those who thought that I should absolutely come out as opposed to those who thought, 'Absolutely not, this will hurt you.'" ... Robert Gant on Showtime's Queer As Folk, in a coming-out interview with Advocate.com, July 24. "Being on Larry King Live and not being able to say to him, 'Larry, sorry, you have some misinformation. I'm actually gay'...it was painful for me." ... Gant. "I do want to help change the world. I do want to help people get back to themselves because that's what I've worked so hard to do for myself...to give myself back to me through therapy and through all the books that I've read and working on myself and getting to a point where I can tell the truth about my sexuality, for God's sake." ... Gant. "Probably the hottest issue in the gay rights movement is freedom to marry. Most gays want family life, not the bar life that was once their lot." ... Author, psychotherapist and L.A. Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center co-founder Betty Berzon to the Los Angeles Times, July 18. "Communication lines between gay and straight have opened dramatically, except in the most retrograde patches of religious fundamentalism. Hence the small cells still stoking their fury in feminism and gay activism are mostly fanatics...those who are still nursing childhood wounds and who cling to 'the movement' as a consoling foster family. They are harmless, except when impressionable young people fall under their spell: their parochial jargon and unresolved resentments stunt the mind." ... Author Camille Paglia writing at the Web site FrontPageMagazine.com, July 19. "Queer is back. But not queer like rainbow-flag-marching-down-Fifth Avenue queer. 'It can mean amusing, it can also mean kind of gross, or it can mean really odd,' says Helen Schifter, a socialite who dates her usage of the word to her Exeter days. 'It's really a boarding-school thing.'" ... Amy LarRocca writing in New York Magazine, July 22. "I've really noticed a resurgence of [use of the word] gay by skateboardy kids. Not gay like homosexual. It mean[s] kind of farty, kind of odd." ... Writer Michelangelo Signorile to New York Magazine, July 22. "Last month, I received a surprising piece of fan mail from Lew Bishop, the husband of Dr. Laura Schlessinger. Bishop thanked me on his wife's behalf for my 'reasoned and fair column' criticizing members of the gay movement...most notably, GLAAD ...for trying to shut down opposing points of view, including those of Dr. Laura. ... It's an uncomfortable experience for a progressive lesbian writer to be praised by Dr. Laura." ... Q Syndicate columnist Paula Martinac at PlanetOut.com, July 22. "The typical 'metrosexual' is a young man with money to spend, living in or within easy reach of a metropolis...because that's where all the best shops, clubs, gyms and hairdressers are. He might be officially gay, straight or bisexual, but this is utterly immaterial because he has clearly taken himself as his own love object and pleasure as his sexual preference." ... Mark Simpson writing at Salon.com, July 22. "Hetero sodomy has become such a hot topic of late: These days my straight male friends talk of no other kind of intercourse (though maybe it's because they think I'm an expert on it)." ... Simpson. "Identifying what exactly constitutes being a bear has become a growing source of contention. For some, it's as simple as having a hypermasculine demeanor, a hefty physique, and facial hair. For others, it's far more complicated, as smaller-statured men and muscular men also strive for inclusion. There are now even bear subsections, like cubs ... (smaller, often younger men), grizzlies (extra-large, extra-hairy guys), daddy bears (bears who are either mature or dominant), and polar bears (silver-haired seniors), among others. There are even other animal tags for bear lovers, like wolves and otters, which usually describe thin, hairy men who enjoy the company of bears." ... Larry Flick profiling bears in The Advocate.
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