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Compiled By Jack Nichols
But What is Tom?
I concentrated on who he was, not what he was. Tom Selleck—Explaining his approach on the set of In and Out to playing a gay character, CNN's Larry King Live, July 21 Jerry Falwell's 'Alarming Facts' There are now many more hard-core pornography outlets in America than there are McDonald's restaurants. Rev. Jerry Falwell—Email, July 20 A Refreshing Asian Gay Scene Here I am, on the morning after a night at a flourishing gay pub in the heart of downtown Bangalore. It was wonderfully refreshing to be part of a non-ageist, non- separatist scene catering to men and women alike. I didn't feel like some antediluvian leftover, e'en as the music shifted from retro 50's to Middle Eastern to house music. The sweaty, hormonal scent of young bodies in heat, the marvelous touchy feely yaari tradition, with its roots in Iranian tradition, the crotch to crotch intimacy affords a refreshing contrast to the lunacy of the warring fundamentalisms in India, Hindu, Islamic etc., as also the fractured, alienated, separatist, body-obsessed quality of gay life, or much of it in the States. Raj Ayyar—GayToday contributor-- in a July 23 email Bigger is Funny? Texas is bigger than life. People feel they can make fun of it. Have you ever heard anybody make fun of Nebraska? Phyllis K. Griggs— Mayor pro tem of McAllen, Texas, replying to Al Gore's depiction of Texas as a poverty-plagued, heavily-polluted state, New York Times, July 21 Landover Baptist Finds 'The Patriot' UnChristian
Further, it is a well-known fact in my social circle that men with long hair are invariably losers, freaks, rock-stars or liars. That is, of course, unless they are born of a virgin, bring people back from the dead and die for my few sins in excruciating pain. So, you can imagine I was not pleased to attend a film filled with men looking like Breck girls and sporting more wigs than a Motown scrapbook.
Betty Bowers—“This Country Was Founded By Nothing But 100% Praying, Born-Again Christians, But You'd Never Know it >From This Secular Rubbish”-- Landover Baptist Church, www.landoverbaptist.org'It's the Culture we've got to Change!' Don't expect the courts to lead society where it isn't ready to go. In other words, the real battleground is the culture at large. "Court decisions have never been the leading edge for gay rights," says John D'Emilio, a historian in the gender and women's-studies department at the University of Chicago at Illinois. Instead, he says, advocates must keep challenging the straight majority to reconsider its prejudices. D.W. Miller—“Legal Scholars of Gay Rights Offer Strategies to Combat The 'Apartheid of the Closet' ”—Chronicle of Higher Education, July 21
If you're looking to make a difference in the world, kick some multinational drug company butt today. Rex Wockner—The Wockner Wire, #102 www.planetout.com/wocknerwire/ The Dow will not Bow A group of economists found a cure for poverty today and were immediately jailed. Greenwich Village Gazette, July 21 www.nycny.com 
Love at First Sight—Where?
I fell in love with her the minute I saw her—in the alley, behind the church. Rev. Jim Bakker—speaking in front of Tammy Faye and her new husband about his new wife, Lori Bakker, CNN's Larry King Live, July 4 Facing 10 Years in Prison and a $ 250,000 Fine Florence, S.C.--The former executive director of a Pee Dee charity has pleaded guilty to taking more than $30,000 from an organization that helps people with AIDS. The Front Page—“Former Charity Director pleads guilty to embezzlement”—July 7 |
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