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| Quotes & Quips |
| Compiled By Jack Nichols
Porn Stars and their Self-Esteem
There are others who are consumed by the need to validate themselves in front of the camera…Inevitably they have convoluted views of their own sexuality that are tied to issues of self-esteem (or lack thereof). And more often than not they claim to be straight or gay-for-pay. Not surprisingly, they are a challenge to work with and tend to be disdainful and disparaging of those of us who are comfortable acknowledging our gay sexuality.
Jackson Phillips—"The Gay for Pay Studs"—The Best of the Superstars 1999 (StarBooks Press) Sweet Memories of the High School Prom "We won't look back and talk about who went with whom…It'll be, We went to the prom and Charles wore a dress." The Crotch Attack: TV Wrestling's Contribution to Civilization
Jeff MacGregor—"The New Pop Hero: A mirage of Muscle and Mean"—New York Times, March 28 His Eye is on the Heterosexual Sparrow The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 to heterosexuals. This doesn't mean God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. Singer/Comedian Lynn Larner in OUT in All Directions: The Almanac of Gay and Lesbian America 
The Queen's English Faux Pas
In her annual address to her subjects—presumably vetted endlessly by the Buckingham Palace staff—Queen Elizabeth II observed that the young can sometimes be wiser than us." Than us? I wondered: is this proper English? So I dug out The Oxford Guide to English Usage and found that Her Majesty was wrong. T.R. Reld—"Alas, the queen's subjects don't agree with her"— Washington Post Dancers Remember Matthew in Luminous Joy
Remembering Matthew Shepard: A Vigil in Dance, presented by the
MorganScott Ballet on Tuesday night at the Danspace Project at St. Mark's
Church, paid homage to Mr. Shepard, the Wyoming college student murdered in
October, with rousing music and luminous, joyous dance. The well-paced event,
produced by Daniel Scott, began with a solemn processional by members of the
Lesbian and Gay Big Apple Corps Marching Band,
Jennifer Dunning-- New York Times, April 3, 1999 Imagining Heaven Billy Graham has described heaven as a family reunion that never ends. What must hell possibly be like? Home videos of the same reunion? Paradox magazine, April Fashion Advice for Female Oscar Attendees If you have something on top, show it off at the Oscars…particularly if they're yours. Liz Smith—quoted in "Style Diary" by William Norwich, The New York Observer, March 22 The Fashionization of the Oscars
Queer Families are Becoming the Norm What's at stake is less the conversion of homo into hetero, and more the conversion of queer families into traditional ones. As critic Kath Weston has explained, the queer family is a 'family we choose.' A group of close-knit friends who support and nurture each other in ways that biological families often spectacularly fail to do. Driven from their own families by prejudice, homosexuals have historically formed queer families to regain a sense of home and community that they miss. But in the post-Reagan era of job mobility and 'rootlessness,' the queer family has become a kind of norm for straights and gays alike. Annalee Newitz—"Heterosexual Love: Queer Families"—Alternative Press Review, Winter, 1998-99 |
The crotches of the WWF have come under fire from USA Today which estimated that 1,658 times the groins of wrestlers were either grabbed or pointed at in 50 episodes 
Matt Damon and Ben Afleck at the Oscars 
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