rants and raves.

"I look pretty good in a dress, I have to say."

--Country singer Tim McGraw, recalling his visit to a Renaissance festival, as quoted by the Associated Press, August 16

"It was an experience similar to an epiphany because everyone, male or female, wonders what it's like to have sex with the same sex."

--Kim Cattrall, on her lesbian love scenes with Sonia Braga on HBO's Sex and the City, as quoted by Cindy Adams in the New York Post, August 16

"I hate to admit it, because I think being gay and lesbian is an abomination, but they have the same rights we do."

--Ron Edwards, Imperial Wizard of the Imperial [Ku Klux] Klans of America, supporting a South Dakota gay group's efforts to join the state's Adopt-a-Highway program, as quoted in the Los Angeles Times, August 15

"My first thought was, This is so unlike Johnny."

--Joan Mitchell (pictured with husband John), mother of John Cameron Mitchell, on her response to her son's transgender rock movie, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, as quoted in The [Colorado Springs, Colo.] Gazette, August 17

"I thought about calling it Oz: Not the Homoerotic Show."

--Joel Smith, producer of an upcoming TV series based on L. Frank Baum's Oz books, referring to HBO's prison series (pictured), as quoted in Variety, August 16