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Rants & raves.


"I'll be open to trying anything--except cross-dressing."

--'N Sync member Justin Timberlake (shown left with Britney Spears), expressing his openness to fashion trends during "Britney and Justin's Shopping Adventure," a streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater.  feature posted on Youtopia.com

* "I was like, dude, I didn't ... kill anyone in [Queer as Folk Queer as Folk may refer to:
  • Queer as Folk (UK TV series) (1999-2000), a British television series about a group of gay men
  • Queer as Folk (US TV series) (2000-2005), a North American remake of the British series
], you know? I don't gang-shoot anyone. If you think it's irresponsible to play a gay character; then I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed)

"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party.
 what to say to that."

--British actor Charlie Hunnam, reporting what he said to a man who told him he should be ashamed of playing gay, in the spring 2801 issue of Detour

* "He's suing me for $5 million, and really all he could hope to get from me would be my dresses and the rest of my T cells T cells
A type of white blood cell produced in the thymus gland. T cells are an important part of the immune system. Infants born with an underdeveloped or absent thymus do not have a normal level of T cells in their blood.
."

--Trans performer Geoff "Karen Dior" Gann, on the lawsuit Eddie Murphy brought against him (and later dropped) over Gann's claims of a 1990 assignation ASSIGNATION, Scotch law. The ceding or yielding a thing to another of which intimation must be made.  with the star in his limo, as quoted in New Times Los Angeles. April 26

* "A person who is gay should have every opportunity."

--Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, on President Bush's appointment of a gay man to head the AIDS policy office, as quoted by The [London] Sunday Telegraph, April 22

"As soon as the penis goes, she is free to go to the women's sauna."

--The superintendent of an apartment complex in Helsinki, Finland, commenting on when a transsexual trans·sex·u·al
n.
A person who strongly identifies with the opposite gender and who chooses to live as a member of the opposite gender or to become one by surgery.

adj.
1. Of or relating to such a person.

2.
 may use the building's sauna during women-only hours, as quoted in a Reuters report, April 20

"I get lots of little postcards that say, `You go, girl!'"

--Actress Laura Innes, discussing fans' response to her ER character's lesbian affair this season, on GayHealth.com, May 1
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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jun 5, 2001
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