Tag Archives: HomoQuotable

HomoQuotable – Beth Ditto

“If there’s anyone to blame for size zero, it’s not women. Blame gay men who work in the fashion industry and want these women as dolls.” – Lesbian rocker Beth Ditto, lead singer of The Gossip, saying that gay men are responsible putting anorexic models on runways.

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HomoQuotable – Peter Tatchell

“I’m not deterred one iota from coming back to protest in Moscow.” – British gay rights activist Peter Tatchell, who was beaten by suspected neo-nazi protesters at this weekend’s Moscow gay pride event. Unbelievably, after he was beaten, Tatchell and other marchers, including Moscow Pride organizer Nikolai Aleksee were arrested by Moscow police. Tatchell delivered the keynote address to Moscow …

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HomoQuotable – Stephen Benjamin

“I was always discreet, I never considered it would be an issue. I thought if I don’t say anything, they’re not going to ask me. But it was more aggressive than I thought.” – Arabic languages specialist Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Stephen Benjamin, who was dismissed from the Navy in another round of DADT-related firings. Benjamin admitted sending his …

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HomoQuotable – Matt Foreman

“The death of a family member or friend is always a sad occasion and we express our condolences to all those who were close to the Rev. Jerry Falwell. Unfortunately, we will always remember him as a founder and leader of America’s anti-gay industry, someone who exacerbated the nation’s appalling response to the onslaught of the AIDS epidemic, someone who …

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HomoQuotable – Karen Magee

“This is deeply disappointing and concerning to me and the rest of the management team.” – PlanetOut CEO Karen Magee, announcing that the company, owner of Out, Advocate, and Gay.com, will be out of money by the end of the year without an infusion of cash. PlanetOut reported a first quarter loss of nearly $7M on Friday, sending its stock …

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HomoQuotable – Jeff Chevalier

“John and I would usually get 1A and 1B seats in Club Class or First Class on British Airways. We would then be given the option to arrive either first or last on to the plane and be personally escorted by Special Services. Despite this, John still felt it a burden to fly commercial. When we did not have 1A …

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HomoQuotable – John Amaechi

“Probably 30 of my former (NBA) teammates have my e-mail and my telephone contacts and probably 16 or so of those I was in regular touch with and there are probably 10 people who I have (on instant messenger). And zero – nobody – who’s active in the NBA has been in touch with me since the day I came …

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HomoQuotable – John Browne

“I have always regarded my sexuality as a personal matter, to be kept private. It is a matter of deep disappointment that a newspaper group has now decided that allegations about my personal life should be made public.” – British Petroleum Chairman John Browne, who resigned today after a British judge lifted the injunction stopping the press from publishing details …

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HomoQuotable – Jackie Beat

“Ann Coulter is a horrible witch — you know that some queen is bleaching and straightening that hair. And who designs her little black dresses and shoes? Trust me, it’s gay men! I would love to see Ann Coulter in a gay-free zone — she would have coarse mousy brown hair, poorly applied drugstore makeup and walk around in a …

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HomoQuotable – Jim McGreevey

“Although it is clear that the Defendant (Dina Matos McGreevey) knew of my sexual orientation before our marriage, she chose to either ignore it or block it out of her mind, even when questioned by her friends.” – Former NJ governor Jim McGreevey, claiming his wife always knew he was a gay American, in divorce papers filed yesterday. McGreevey’s “amicable” …

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HomoQuotable – Curtis Dahn

“Thirty-three people were killed. Some were queer, and others were straight allies. The GLBT community at Tech grieves in the same way as others — deeply and as part of a greater whole.” – Virginia Tech GLBT Student Alliance president Curtis Dahn, reporting that gay students are among those killed in Monday’s massacre. Dahn declined to name or number the …

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HomoQuotable – Matt Foreman

“Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars have been utterly wasted on ‘abstinence-only until marriage’ programs. Why? To appease a rabidly vocal minority that cares more about getting our government to promote their religious ideology than they do about the health of young people. ‘Abstinence-only until marriage’ propaganda has been particularly insulting to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people because the …

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HomoQuotable – Harvey Fierstein

“America is watching Don Imus’s self-immolation in a state of shock and awe. And I’m watching America with wry amusement. Since I’m a second-class citizen — a gay man — my seats for the ballgame of American discourse are way back in the bleachers. I don’t have to wait long for a shock jock or stand-up comedian to slip up …

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HomoQuotable – Howard Bragman

“I think there are four kinds of gays in Hollywood. There’s the openly gay; the gay and everybody knows it but nobody talks about it; the married, closeted gay who doesn’t talk about it; and the screaming ‘I’ll sue you if you say I’m gay’ person. In other words, the no closet, the glass closet, the cast iron closet, and …

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HomoQuotable – Jennifer Crisler

“We were proud to join the many diverse families attending the White House Egg Roll this year. For the second year in a row, gay and lesbian-headed families participated in a great American tradition. Despite the cold weather and freezing temperatures, gay and lesbian families came and made their presence known, making our existence real to millions of Americans.” – …

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HomoQuotable – John Waters

“[Divine] was (going to be) the first gay male character, a gay uncle, which could have been hugely successful at the time.” – John Waters, revealing that at time of his death in 1988, Divine was about to begin appearing on Married With Children. Interesting news, but despite what the linked article says, wasn’t Billy Crystal’s character on Soap tv’s …

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HomoQuotable – Doug Woog

“For the first 10 years, the typical member was 17 to 22 years old. They’d come in saying: ‘I’m gay. My life is over.’ One literally hyperventilated walking through the door. But in recent years, the kids are 14 to 17 and more confident. They say: ‘Hi, I’m gay. How do I meet people?’”- Connecticut-based gay youth counselor Doug Woog, …

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HomoQuotable – Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum

“I absolutely believe that anybody in this generation who is at the forefront of social justice and making an impact on Judaism would care deeply about the role and the place of gays and lesbians.” – Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, just named by Newsweek as one of top 50 most influential rabbis in America, who placed Kleinbaum 19th overall and one …

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HomoQuotable – Buck Angel

“I would never fail to tell anyone before we got home that I am a man with a pussy. That is not cool at all.” – Buck Angel, in an interview with Outrate (NSFW). Having seen Buck in action several times now, he certainly doesn’t lack for amorous attention from gay men, but the disclosure issue is certainly Topic #1 …

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HomoQuotable – Kenny Goss

“It ain’t gonna happen.” – Kenny Goss, partner of George Michael, saying he absolutely would not participate in the British version of TV show Wife Swap. Producers are said to be considering approaching Elton John and David Furnish instead. Maybe Goss is just upset at being the “wife”? I was looking forward to seeing how George Michael’s replacement wife dealt …

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