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Compiled By Jack Nichols 
What's in that Closet? I have a neighbor and he's been in the closet for so long that he's got a pet bat.
Joan Rivers—on Politically Incorrect, March 27
They Never Knew Until… …an anaesthetist, had admitted that he had behaved in January last year in an inappropriate and/or unnecessary manner in a surgical procedure by touching or placing his hands on a patient's genitals in a fondling manner. He admitted that between October and December 1998, he had taken hold of a patient's genitals and shaken and squeezed them. He also admitted that between October 1998 and January last year he had placed his hands inside a patient's underwear and moved his hand for about three or four seconds. Steve Butcher—“Doctor banned over touching”—The Age, Australia, March 30 Banging Bush
Bush, far from being a uniter who is compassionate, has
actually played upon divisions to win the nomination, and now shows
little desire to heal them. A candidate who cannot unite the Republican
Party won't win this election.
Rich Tafel—Executive Director of the gay and lesbian GOP group, the Log Cabin Republicans—quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer, March 29 The Gay Marriage Issue: Reform Judaism Makes History The breakthrough is that it's a major religious group that says unequivocally it will support its rabbis if they participate in these ceremonies. Rabbi Paul Menitoff—Executive Vice President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis—“Reform Rabbis Back Blessings of Gay Unions”, New York Times, March 30 
U.S. Supreme Court Decides Nude Dancing Leads to Crime
To believe that the mandatory addition of pasties and a G-string will have any kind of noticeable impact on secondary effects requires nothing short of a titanic surrender to the implausible. U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens—Dissenting opinion, March 29 Save Michigan We do not believe that Michigan taxpayers, many of whom oppose homosexuality, should pay for a course whose express purpose is to recruit and initiate teenage men into a high-risk homosexual lifestyle. We are asking for the class to be canceled. Gary Glenn--president of the American Family Association of Michigan—commenting on a University of Michigan course titled “How To Be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation.”--Detroit Free Press, March 30 Advice to Gay Parents with Kids who are Coming Out
Abigail Garner—"Families like mine"—Ms. Garner has two gay Dads and a straight Mom. Alternative Family www.altfammag.com March/April Non-Mutual Activity is like Unwelcome Goosing When we think about harassment , sometimes we're distracted by the word 'sexual,' and we think that this is a matter of very aggressive courting or dating or flirting. It has nothing to do with the interactions between men and women that are of mutual interest. This has everything to do with non-mutual activity. Lt. General Claudia J. Kennedy—“Female General in Army Alleges Sex Harassment”— New York Times, March 31 Big Time Gay Media Mergers
But a writer who has contributed to the Advocate and Out, and who asked
not to be identified, worries that the merger will tend to "homogenize gay
culture," adding, "There are increasingly few voices in gay and lesbian
publications.
Dan Kennedy—“Gay and Wired”--Boston Phoenix, March 30 Out or In Friends may come and friends may go And friends may peter out, you know. But we'll be friends through thick and thin, Peter out, or peter in! Fairy Tales: A Treasury of Gay Jokes—collected by Glenn Turner, Pinnacle Books, 1985, San Francisco |
If you are a parent whose child has also come out, or if you are beginning to see hints of
Queerness in your children, please relax. Give them the space you wish you had had to figure
things out in your own way and in your own time. Don't worry about how homophobic people
are going to judge you with respect to recruiting or making kids "turn" gay. Homophobic
people are going to judge you anyway, so let it go. The opinions that really matter are
those of your kids, who will hopefully thank you someday for having supported them as
they discovered their own path.
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