”Well, you know, if I was a girl and he was a girl, and I was a lesbian and he was a lesbian, I’d be all over him.”
— George Clooney in Esquire on his Ocean’s 11, 12 and 13 co-star Brad Pitt. Clooney also responded to gay actor Rupert Everett’s derision of the Ocean’s films as ”a cancer to world culture,” saying, ”Dude, weren’t you in Dunston Checks In?” (Esquire)
”[A]ll I want from you today is to take the books off the shelves, so children can have a safe place to learn like I did years ago.”
— Nampa, Idaho, resident Charla Tedeski in support of the local library’s decision to move The Joy of Sex and The Joy of Gay Sex from shelves — the books are now available only by request. According to the library, The Joy of Gay Sex has been checked out seven times in the past year. (KTVB News)
”Elton [John] has become a friend. I lost my son, and now I have these other friends. It seems wrong on some level. It’s very disconcerting.”
— Judy Shepard, speaking about the 10 years since her son Matthew’s murder, during which her anti-hate crimes activism has brought her into contact with the powerful and the famous. (USA Today)
”I’m not gay-bashing. But according to God’s word that is not the right kind of lifestyle.”
— Oklahoma state legislator Rep. Sally Kern (R), defending herself from charges of homophobia after the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund released an audio recording of her telling supporters that homosexuality is a greater threat to the nation than terrorism. (Dallas Morning News)
”If I return to Iran I will be arrested and executed.”
— Mehdi Kazemi, a 19-year-old Iranian who had applied for and was denied asylum in Britain, in a letter to the British government. Kazemi fled to the Netherlands, where a court ruled he must return to Britain under EU law. He now faces deportation to Iran, where Kazemi says his ex-boyfriend was executed by the government. (The Times, UK)
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