Rants & raves."I have far more in common with Tevye than with Edna. I'm not a heterosexual woman: --Harvey Fierstein, on taking over the lead in Fiddler on the Beef on Broadway after playing a drag role in Hairspray, as quoted in New York's Daily News, January 3 "It is unfortunate that the leaders of the social fundamentalist wing of the [Republican] party haven't followed President Bush's request to conduct the debate [over the anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment] without bitterness or anger.'" --Former Bush cabinet member Christine Todd Whitman, in her new book It's My Party Too (Penguin Press) "The homosexuality thing was a buzzword A term that refers to the latest technology or a term that sounds catchy. If not a flash in the pan, new technologies become mainstream. For example, Java was a hot buzzword in the 1990s, but should remain a major topic for decades. and got all around.... I think it got overblown o·ver·blown v. Past participle of overblow. adj. 1. a. Done to excess; overdone: overblown decorations. b. . 'Alexander the Gay'--I mean, it's ridiculous." --Oliver Stone, on how media coverage of the gay overtones in his film Alexander caused it to flop, as quoted by Reuters, January 5 "Is this our culture's latent homophobia at work? Or do others simply not find Gael Garcia Bernal soaking wet in his underwear as infinitely fascinating as I do?" --Fort Worth, Texas, Star-Telegram film critic Christopher Kelly Sir Christopher William Kelly KCB (born 18 August 1946 in Bromley, Kent, England), is the current Chairman of the NSPCC and a former senior Civil Servant. He is the son of Dr. Reginald Kelly (1917-90), a former President of the Association of British Neurologists. on the box office failure of Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education, as quoted on Slate.com, January 6 "It happened at Christmas, when fornicators and corrupt people from all over the world come to commit fornication Sexual intercourse between a man and a woman who are not married to each other. Under the Common Law, the crime of fornication consisted of unlawful sexual intercourse between an unmarried woman and a man, regardless of his marital status. and sexual perversion Noun 1. sexual perversion - an aberrant sexual practice; perversion paraphilia - abnormal sexual activity sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice - activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat" .... I say this is a great sign and punishment on which Muslims should reflect." --Sheik Fawzan Al-Fawzan, a professor at the Al-Imam University in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. , on the December 26 tsunami disaster, as quoted by WorldNetDaily.com, January "I'm glad that I believe very fervently that Jesus would not be on the side of gay bashers. To think that people say, as they used to say, that AIDS was God's punishment for homosexuality. Abominable. Abominable." --Archbishop Desmond Tutu, as quoted in a Newsweek online story, December 30 |
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