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Friday, November 04, 2005

This was one of the most misleading and dangerous shows I’ve ever seen on TV. Where is GLAAD when needed? Off luring big stars to their next self-congratulatory awards show and fawning over ‘Will & Grace’ and ‘Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.’ They should demand satisfaction from NBC!

Lesbian gossip columnist Liz Smith on a recent episode of NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU” about a “superstrain” of AIDS and the murders of gay men who have it (New York Post, Nov. 1)


The ‘Law & Order’ franchise has long made gays and lesbians the victims or villains. In this episode, they managed to do both with a story based on an untruth about a HIV ‘supervirus.’

Damon Romine, entertainment media director of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, calling on GLAAD supporters to protest the “Law & Order” episode (www.GLAAD.org)


If it’s a choice between serving in the ordained ministry with my credentials intact, and serving as an ‘out’ lesbian person acknowledging the most important relationship in my life and not having those credentials, I’ll take being out.

Irene “Beth” Stroud, after being defrocked by the United Methodist Church for announcing her lesbian relationship during a sermon (Washington Post, Nov. 1)


I’m the black sheep in the family. My folks are conservative Republicans. I grew up in New Hampshire, a big Irish-Catholic family. My folks are pretty conservative. They go to mass every day. So, I don’t know what was harder for them — finding out I was gay or I was a Democrat.

Sean Patrick Maloney, a former top aide to President Bill Clinton who is seeking the Democratic nomination for New York state attorney general (Associated Press, Oct. 30)


The talk about the WNBA being full of lesbians is not true. There are as many straight women in the league as there are gay. What really irritates me is when people talk about football, baseball and the NBA, you don’t hear all of this talk about the gay guys playing. But when you talk about the WNBA, then it becomes an issue.

WNBA most valuable player Sheryl Swoopes, in an interview acknowledging she’s a lesbian and involved with a former WNBA coach (ESPN The Magazine, Oct. 26)


Uh, Earth to Sheryl — it irritates the gay guys in football, baseball and the NBA a helluva lot more than you not to hear all of this talk about the gay guys playing. I and every other gay guy in sports live every day with the fact that it’s OK to be a lesbian in sports but not a gay guy.

An anonymous Division I college sports administrator, who said he’s gay but refused to be named because he fears for his job (ESPN.com, Oct. 30)


I have absolutely nothing to do with it. I didn’t ask them to come and do this, and they’re doing it on their own — not with my approval.

Texas Rep. Warren Chisum, who is leading the effort to amend the Texas constitution to ban gay marriage, on an Austin rally by the Ku Klux Klan supporting the amendment (Houston Chronicle, Oct. 30)


I am sure a Klan rally was one of the last things that Chisum wanted before Election Day. But when you play footsie with prejudice, you risk stepping into something disgusting.

Houston Chronicle columnist Clay Robison (Houston Chronicle, Oct. 30)


The [Roman Catholic Church’s] teaching against homosexuality is blasphemy. God created gay people, so who is anyone else to say you should not be gay?’’

Singer Sinead O’Connor (U.K. Independent, Oct. 2)

 

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