Rants & raves."Three of [Mike Danton's] teammates .... suggested they'd be comfortable with a homosexual teammate. We're inclined to believe they're among the majority." --Hockey News editor Jason Kay, commenting on the "overtone overtone In acoustics, a faint higher tone contained within almost any musical tone. A body producing a musical pitch—such as a taut string or a column of air within the tubular body of a wind instrument—vibrates not only as a unit but simultaneously also in " of homosexuality in the murder-for-hire accusations against St. Louis Blues player Mike Danton, in the May 4 issue [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "He's a doctor--why is he so disgusted by naked bodies? ... It's indicative of the hostility that those of us living with AIDS face from this administration. We disgust them." --Poz magazine founder Sean Strub, responding to news that Tom Coburn (right), cochair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) was a commission formed by then-President Bill Clinton in 1995 to provide recommendations on the U.S. government's response to the AIDS epidemic. President George W. Bush and Secretary Tommy G. , was offended by the magazine's 10th anniversary cover, which featured a crowd of naked HIV-positive people, as quoted by the New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 . May 4 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Instead of spending the night in the White House curled up with First Lady Laura Bush and a bowl of pretzels, Bush was stuck in a building with a battalion of 2,500 bat-wielding homos in the mood for love and other games." --Gay journalist Byron Beck, commenting on a night in August 2002 when the president stayed in the same Portland, Ore., hotel as players in the Gay Softball World Series, as quoted by Washington Times correspondent and Bush apologist Apologist Any of the Christian writers, primarily in the 2nd century, who attempted to provide a defense of Christianity against Greco-Roman culture. Many of their writings were addressed to Roman emperors and were submitted to government secretaries in order to defend Bill Sammon in his just-published book, Misunderestimated: The President Battles Terrorism, John Kerry, and the Bush Haters [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "She looked at [the photos of me as a woman] and said, 'Oh, you're a beautiful woman." I think Condoleezza Rice is a person of incredible depth, intelligence, and humanity." --Transgendered biology professor Joan Roughgarden, on coming out to Rice (left), her then-boss at Stanford University, as quoted in The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Magazine, May 9 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Why are we shocked by these images from Abu Ghraib, but when the victims are women (or gay men) the images are called pornography or 'adult entertainment'?" --Women's studies professor Donna H. Hughes, in a column on National Review Online, May 6 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Why didn't Brad pose for an Advocate Cover?" --Film writer Jeffrey Wells, commenting on the homoeroticism homoeroticism /ho·mo·erot·i·cism/ (ho?mo-e-rot´i-sizm) sexual feeling directed toward a member of the same sex.homoerot´ic of Brad Pitt's performance in Troy, in his column on MoviePoopShoot.com, May 14 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I need my nipples squeezed before every show. It gets me pumped to go onstage. My assistant Jackie has it down to a fine art." --Pink, as quoted by MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company .com's "The Scoop," May 3 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Playgirl play·girl n. A woman devoted to the pursuit of pleasurable activities. TV--the first erotic TV channel designed for women, watched by gay men." --Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update," May 8 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I'll tell you that right now:. Don't think you're going to marry me and take my money, bitch.... I'll get prenup on you." --Sandra Bernhard's take on same-sex marriage, at the Wedrock benefit show in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , April 28 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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