Rants raves.

"That movie is great! Maybe Gene Shalit is just jealous he doesn't have a relationship like that."

--HULK HOGAN on Brokeback Mountain, as quoted in the January 30 issue of Us Weekly

"Three girls in a bed is a bedful of girls. Two girls in bed are lesbians."

--TOM FORD, explaining why he's on the cover of the March issue of Vanity Fair with two naked actresses

"I won't quit until antidiscrimination laws are on the books in Oregon."

--Democratic governor TED KULONGOSKI, declaring war on state legislators who killed a gay rights bill, February 9

"Do you think the secular system [of government] is serving any nation? [The] secular system al lows homosexuality [and] the loss of natural immunity, like AIDS."

--Hamas leader MAHMOUD AL-ZAHAR, expressing the Palestinian leadership's opposition to gay rights, in a CNN interview, January 29

"He was getting death threats from [Clay] Aiken's legions of loyal fans as well as offers of work from porn film directors."

--From a January 28 report in the Contra Costa [Calif.] Times on ex-Green Beret JOHN PAULUS, who told the National Enquirer he and Aiken had had unprotected sex in a North Carolina motel