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"I'm a pilot, and one time I actually flew naked.... I've also been naked in an airplane when I wasn't flying it."

--Reichen Lehmkuhl, who won CBS's The Amazing Race in 2003 with his now-ex-partner Chip Arndt, as quoted in the June 14 issue of Us Weekly

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"I've never been all straight. Everyone has their curveballs."

--Broadway legend Chita Rivera (Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman Kiss of the Spider Woman (El beso de la mujer araña) may refer to:
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman (novel), the 1976 novel by the Argentine writer Manuel Puig
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman (film) (Portuguese: O Beijo da Mulher Aranha
), as quoted by Michael Musto in his La Dolce dol·ce   Music
adv. & adj.
In a gentle and sweet manner. Used chiefly as a direction.



[From Italian, sweet, from Latin dulcis.]

Adv. 1.
 Musto column in The Village Voice, June 8

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"All of us, including me, believe . that marriage is between one man and one woman. I offer no apologies."

--Jeffrey Bingham Mead, on why he's disbanding the Hawaii chapter of the gay political group Log Cabin Republicans The Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) is a federated gay and lesbian political organization in the United States with state chapters and a national office in Washington, D.C. The group consists of gays and lesbians who are supporters of the Republican Party.  to protest LCR's pro-marriage campaign, as reported in the Hawaii Reporter, June 4 (LCR's national office says the Hawaii chapter was already inactive)

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"We are really the shining city on a hill, if I may be so bold."

--San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, referring to his city's progressive policies on education, health care, and same-sex marriage, at a Los Angeles fund-raiser, June 14

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"It is clear that he is a she-male.... DreamWorks is helping in [the 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.
 agenda] by promoting cross-dressing and transgenderism Transgenderism is a social movement seeking transgender rights and affirming transgender pride. More recently, the term has also been used as a synonym for postgenderism, a social philosophy which seeks the voluntary elimination of gender in the human species through the  in this animated film."

--A May 28 warning from the Traditional Values Coalition The Traditional Values Coalition is a Christian Right organization that claims to represent over 43,000 conservative Christian churches throughout the United States of America. Headquartered in Washington, D.C.  about the movie Shrek 2, which features an apparently transgendered Ugly Stepsister voiced by CNN's Larry King

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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Date:Jul 20, 2004
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