Rants and raves."I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents. A child needs a mother and father"--Stefano Gabbana, on his decision to have a child with a female friend, quoted in The [London] Daily Mail, December 10 "People like that are weak; it's pathetic."--Transgender performer ALEXIS ARQUETTE Alexis Arquette (born July 28, 1969) is an American male-to-female transgender actress, musician, and cabaret drag performer. Biography Early life Arquette was born Robert Arquette , dissing just-out-of-the-closet actors Neil Patrick Harris Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an Emmy-nominated American actor. He is known for his television roles as the teenage doctor Doogie Howser, M.D. and the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother. and T.R. Knight for keeping mum about their sexual orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. at the Trevor Project's annual Cracked Christmas fund-raiser, December 3 "It's never easy to come out. I was terrified ter·ri·fy tr.v. ter·ri·fied, ter·ri·fy·ing, ter·ri·fies 1. To fill with terror; make deeply afraid. See Synonyms at frighten. 2. To menace or threaten; intimidate. for Alexis, with all the cruelty in the world, that he would be taunted, teased, or beaten."--Alexis's sister PATRICIA ARQUETTE, defending Harris and Knight at Cracked Christmas, December 3 "My two best friends in the world are--shock!--gay men. I even have a brand-new 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. friend." --Radio talk-show host LAURA SCHLESSINGER to Radar, December 11. Schlessinger has previously referred to homosexuality as a "biological error." "We apologize for misleading the audience and wish that we could have handled things better."--Heroes creator TIM KRING, revealing that his show's sexually ambiguous character Zach is not gay, in an e-mail to AfterElton.com, December 11 and post it on YouTube? |
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