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10. ‘Everybody Loves Raymond — Especially Steve’
9. ‘CSI: San Francisco’
8. ‘Inside the Actor’s Studio Apartment in the West Village’
7. ‘Law & Order: Special Antiquing Unit’
6. ‘King of Queens’
5. ‘Desperate Houseboys’
4. ‘Stone Phillips — Unleashed’
3. ‘Malcolm in the Middle’
2. ‘My Wife & Kids — Have No Idea’
1. ‘Press the Meat’”
David Letterman’s Top 10 suggestions for the Q Television Network, one of several gay cable channels launched in 2005 (CBS’ “Late Night,” Jan. 10)
“There’s a certain reality to dealing with the Congress. Yes, I’ll push for it. Yes, I’m still for it. I just want people to understand that there’s a mentality on the Hill that says the way things are fine now — in other words, states are protected from the decisions of one state to the next because of the Defense of Marriage Act.”
President Bush, reacting to conservative critics who wanted him to push harder for a constitutional ban on gay marriage during his second term (NBC, Jan. 17)
“Many parents would not want their young children exposed to the lifestyles portrayed in the episode. Congress’ and the [Education] Department’s purpose in funding this programming certainly was not to introduce this kind of subject matter to children, particularly through the powerful and intimate medium of television.”
U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, in a letter to PBS President and CEO Pat Mitchell, expressing her displeasure that the children’s show ‘Postcards from Buster’ planned to show two lesbian parents in an episode that was eventually pre-empted in most parts of the country (AP, Jan. 26)
“I feel sick about it. I can’t believe PBS would back down to this. I understand they get public funding, but they should be the one station we feel confident in, in knowing that what we see there represents our whole country.”
Karen Pike of Hinesburg, Vt., on PBS’s decision not to broadcast the ‘Postcards from Buster’ episode during which she and her lesbian partner, Gillian Pieper, were featured with their three children (AP, Jan. 27)
“I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.”
Musician-turned-mystery author-turned-2006 Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman, after a reporter asked his position on same-sex marriage (AP, Feb. 3)
“Now I know what President Bush meant when he said he had a mandate.”
Talk show host Bill Maher, on the revelations about conservative journalist (and occasional Blade columnist) Jeff Gannon (a.k.a. James Guckert) who was called on during a White House press briefing before bloggers revealed that he had posted ads on gay escort sites (HBO’s “Real Time,” Feb. 19)
“I absolutely love women and find them incredibly sexy. I have loved women in the past and slept with them. I think if you love and want to pleasure a woman, particularly if you are a woman yourself, then certainly you know how to do things a certain way.”
Actress Angelina Jolie, in an interview with a British magazine (OK! Magazine, March 15)
“Years from now we’ll look back, as gay men, and be pretty despondent that we popularized and glamorized this drug. I’m not anti-partying or anti-sex. But how can we fight for our rights as a sexual minority if we don’t establish what’s right and wrong in our community, and look out for each other?”
Dan Carlson, an ex-meth addict who co-founded the HIV Forum to combat growing crystal meth use among gay men (AP, March 28)
“Please do not accept ‘separate but equal’ as a payoff. Don’t let anyone brand you a second class citizen.”
Actor and activist Harvey Fierstein, who lives in Connecticut, in a letter before the state legislature passed a law creating civil unions in that state (AP, March 24)
“[Dennis Rader] still hasn’t done anything really terrible, like support gay marriage.”
Comedy writer Jake Novak, poking fun at news reports that Rader had not been kicked out of his Kansas church congregation, despite Rader’s confession that he was the BTK (Bind-Torture-Kill) serial killer (AP, April 1)
“I know a ton of gay men that would be more than willing to stay in the Army if they could just be open. But if we have to stay here and hide our lives all the time, it’s just not worth it.”
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