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| Compiled By Jack Nichols
Homo Headgear?
Everyone should be gay and wear helmets.
Chris Kattan— Masculinity's Ludicrous, Operatic Solemnity If women think they may have lesbo tendencies, they get merry on Babycham and fall giggling into bed with their second-best friend; we're brought up with so much soft-core, girl-on-girl eroticism that it doesn't seem a big deal. Men, though, have still got this ludicrous, operatic solemnity about their "manhood", and not being made a "woman" of. So they bottle it up, and it makes them ugly. Eventually, they are violent one too many times and get sent to jail. Where - hey presto! - it's acceptable to bend, blow and bugger to kingdom come. It's very clever, what these geezers do, when you think about it; like a dog eating grass to make itself sick. They end up with exactly what they want. It's the rest of us who have to suffer. Julie Burchill—"Misdirected Male"—The Guardian, London, August 28 Survival of the Greediest We typically think of Charles Darwin in terms of his theory of the survival of the fittest. But early in his career, he wrote: "If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." It does appear that institutions are to blame for the world's health: Third World bureaucracies and First World pharmaceutical manufacturers most prominently. David Yount— www.nandotimes.com, August 24 Prissy Bourgeois Bigot Blither
People of color can't do anything about
their color. I do believe gay people have a choice to live within
the legal rules or not. That's why we have civil-rights laws to protect
African-Americans from discrimination.
Senator Orrin Hatch—R-Utah—Who apologized to the NAACP this month for the above remarks, claiming that he'd been "inarticulate" His Brain's Supply was Already Restricted Although he's seen just about everything in the category of serious crime, Justice Frank Vincent of the Victorian Supreme Court last week considered an unusual case of manslaughter involving erotic asphyxia. Justice Vincent heard of the unintentional death of Raymond Lee at the hands of his friend, Christopher Gerard McIntosh, during a session of Edge. According to a report by forensic psychologist Dr J. Barry-Walsh, Edge is where the ``dominant person may compress the neck on the submissive partner''. It ``is played by mutual consent and involves significant risk to the submissive player as the blood supply to the brain is restricted''. Steve Butcher— "Lover died as bondage went over the edge"—The Age newspaper, Melbourne, Australia, August 29 A Battalion of Penis Snip Soldiers
This is not the regular job of the Turkish Army. Normally we don't do it
in Turkey, but there was a need here requested of us.
Izzet Cetingoz-- Battalion commander-- "Turkish Army Circumcising Muslim Kosovar Boys"--Central Europe OnLine, August 27 Born to Bore Once you have children, it forever changes the way you bore other people. BEK—Cartoonist, The New Yorker 
A Presidential Runner?
I've always been a Democrat and I guess I'll always be a Democrat, until I get a better idea. Warren Beatty— "Will Bullworth Run?"—The Nation, September 6/13 Polymorphous Perversity Uber All Freud's concept of "polymorphous perversity", the notion that there's a human potential for enormous fluidity of sexual desires, which I found quite appealing, was anathema to a movement that was increasingly insisting upon a fixed dichotomy between "gay" and "straight." Dennis Altman— "From Gay Power to Gay Mardi Gras"—The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Vol. IV, Number 3 
The Party of Theocratic Fascists
I've always been a Republican…I believe in core Republican principles. I also happen to be gay. But the party has been hijacked by theocratic fascists. Arizona State Representative Steve May— "An Unlikely 'Don't Tell' Target: Lawmaker May Face Discharge"—The New York Times, August 26 |
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