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"It was about as sexual as being in a doctor's office and turning your head and coughing."

--Queer as Folk star Hal Sparks (with fellow cast member Gale Harold), on filming graphic gay sex scenes, as quoted in the January 3 edition of USA Today

"Lisptick--I'm an official lipstick lesbian."

--Bush supporter and pundit An expert or knowledgeable person. From "pandit" in Hindi. See guru.  Mary Matalin, kidding around with Rep. Barney Frank on CNN's Crossfire, December 28

"The new Queer as Folk Queer as Folk may refer to:
  • Queer as Folk (UK TV series) (1999-2000), a British television series about a group of gay men
  • Queer as Folk (US TV series) (2000-2005), a North American remake of the British series
, I think, is absolutely awful. I mean it's just beyond. It completely marginalizes gay men, and it's every cliche under the sun jammed into, like, on sexfest. It's pretty stinky."

--Sandra Bernhard, on her least favorite TV show of 2000, as quoted by TVGuide.com, December 27

"Today I've been contemplating the three saddest words in the English language, and they are Sandra Day O'Connor Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26 1930) is an American jurist who served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. She was considered a strict constructionist. ."

--Gore Vidal, on the U.S. Supreme Court's involvement in the presidential election, as quoted in the December 29 edition of Daily Variety

"If I play a character that is supposed to be in love with a woman, then, hopefully, you'll believe that, and if I'm supposed to be in love with a man, then, hopefully, you'll believe that."

--Will & Grace's Sean Hayes, explaining why he won't discuss his 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.
, as quoted in the December 24 edition of the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times

Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name).
 
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