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Rants & raves.


"It doesn't mean a guy is gay just because he wears a skirt. Men can look very masculine in skirts--sexy and cheeky."

--Sean Combs (a.k.a. Puff Daddy, P. Diddy) in the German magazine Bunte, as quoted on Salon.com, August 27

"Basically I'm dating Matthew Broderick right now. And he won't put out, We must never tell Sarah."

--Nathan Lane, on how his eight-shows-a-week performance schedule for The Producers, costarring Broderick, keeps him from dating, 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, September 2

"Don't say that Erica is 'pretending' to he a woman or 'posing' as a woman, or imply that Erica is not 'really' a woman."

--From media guidelines for referring to Erica (Helen Shaver, pictured), the transgendered character on the new CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast.  series The Education of Max Bickford, as issued by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation

"Parents ought to be there talking to their kids and saying, 'You know what kind of fool you look like with an earring earring, a personal adornment, sometimes an amulet, worn attached to the ear lobe. Since prehistoric times the ear has been pierced for the insertion of the earring; certain primitive tribes distort the lobe with plugs several inches in diameter or with heavy stones. ? If God had wanted you to wear earrings, he'd have made you a girl.'"

--Alabama governor Don Siegelman, defending a school district's rule against earrings on boys, at a news conference, August 21

"I'd be dead by now [if I hadn't gotten sober]. Or a fruitcake fruit·cake  
n.
1. A heavy spiced cake containing nuts and candied or dried fruits.

2. Slang A crazy or an eccentric person: "a fruitcake under the delusion that he was Saint Nicholas" 
 like Michael Jackson or Prince."

--Elton John, as quoted by Rush & Molloy in the New York Daily News New York Daily News

Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S.
, August 22
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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Date:Oct 9, 2001
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