Rants raves."Gays saved America.... With gentrification gentrification, the rehabilitation and settlement of decaying urban areas by middle- and high-income people. Beginning in the 1970s and 80s, higher-income professionals, drawn by low-cost housing and easier access to downtown business areas, renovated deteriorating it was the gay community that had the vision, means, taste, fortitude and determination to ... save what was left of these cities." --CHRISSIE HYNDE, in an interview with Michael Paoletta in the April 3 issue of Billboard "[Homosexuality] is fine and dandy unless it comes to your family." --Actor PAOLO SEGANTI, on the machismo machismo Exaggerated pride in masculinity, perceived as power, often coupled with a minimal sense of responsibility and disregard of consequences. In machismo there is supreme valuation of characteristics culturally associated with the masculine and a denigration of in traditional Mediterranean culture, as quoted in the April 10-16 issue of TV Guide. Seganti's on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. teen son is gay on As the World Turns. "Without [Jeremy Piven] the show [Entourage] is nothing more than the story of four young gay guys in a polyamorous relationship." --Gossip Web site DEFAMER, discounting a rumor that Piven may leave the popular HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy series, April 14 "They should tell me, because I don't remember." --ROBIN WILLIAMS, on internet rumors that he s had gay affairs, 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 Daffy News Daily Dish column, April 17 "I'm not doing it again." --Actor STEVEN PASQUALE's reported reaction to an April Fool's script that had his Rescue Me character coming out, as quoted by the New York Post's Page Six, April 7. He played a gay role on Six Feet Under. |
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