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Rants & raves.


"For like six months, not a single thing happened [with men]. Not like they weren't drawn to me, but there wasn't a single real attraction.

I'm like, 'What's happening? I know I'm not a lesbian.'"

--Britney Spears, on her post--Justin Timberlake dating dry spell, as quoted in the November 3 issue of Newsweek

"I am really a square, as my kids will tell you. I don't even get to watch television. I've heard the term [metrosexual Metrosexual is a neologism generally applied to heterosexual men with a strong concern for their appearance, and who display many of the lifestyle tendencies of stereotypical gay men. ], but 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 it means."

--Democratic presidential hopeful and former Vermont governor Howard Dean Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont, and currently the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the central organ of the Democratic Party at the national level. , clarifying to a Boulder, Cole., audience an earlier declaration that he was a "metrosexual," October 28

"The fags don't hit each other. The dykes clobber (jargon) clobber - To overwrite, usually unintentionally: "I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack."

Compare mung, scribble, trash, smash the stack.
 each other like cavemen."

--Augusten Burroughs, openly gay columnist and author of the memoir Dry, reporting the results of his own "informal poll" about same-sex domestic violence, in the November issue of Details

"I used to have a big [crush] on Hugh Grant, but I got over him."

--Actor Ben Chaplin Ben Chaplin (born 31 July 1970) is an English actor who first came to public attention for his performance as Matthew Malone in the first series of the sitcom Game On.  (above), on his "same-sex crush," as quoted in the November 10 issue of Us Weekly

"All the girls were kissing girls, the boys the boys, and it was a whole free-for-all ... though I've never had a full relationship with a woman. Hey ... I'm not Angelina Jolie."

--Actor Chloe Sevigny (Boys Don't Cry), on being a club kid in the 1990s, as quoted in the November 13 issue of Rolling Stone
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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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Date:Dec 9, 2003
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