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QUIPS AND QUOTES
Compiled by David Prybylo
Q-Notes Staff
“What can we say to people as a selling
point? ‘We have no rights and everyone hates
us, please come join us!
—Comedian Jason Stuart, in an interview
in the October issue o/Between The Line^
pointing out the ridiculousness of the idea
that gay people recruit straights.
“As you act on One Life To Live as a gay
teenager, I also act. I act as a straight, normd
twenty one year old. It has become routine to
act like the perfect son or brother. You are the
first person I have ever told and may be the
last, that I am gay. I don’t think I will ever be
able to tell anyone the truth.”
—From a letter to Ryan Phillippe, an actor
who played the role of a gay teenager on One
Life To Live in 1992.
“...What incentives exist for the average,
bright, non-quirky boy child to resist the on
slaught of masculinarchy? (Like that word?
It comes from my bisexual transsexual
neighbor’s bumper sticker.)”
—Lee Johnson, in an article titled “Con
fronting Old Myths: The Courage To Raise
Good Men” in Vol. 2/No. 2 of The Family
Next Door.
“In fact, Nazism was largely an outgrowth
of Germany’s gay-rights movement.”
-^rom a statement in a voter’s guide
urging support for Oregon’s anti-gay Mea
sure 13. The statement, written by two mem
bers of a group called Jews and Friends of
Holocaust Victims, was an attempt to portray
the Holocaust as perpetrated by gays.
“He decides he wants to live like the Bradys.
You know, meet a nice man and have coffee
at the kitchen table every morning like Carol
Brady.”
—Screenwriter Stan Zimmerman on the
up-coming Brady Bunch movie he is co-writ
ing with Jim Berg. The reference is to a gay
burglar who has an epiphany while robbing
the Brady house.
“We are a very machismo culture, but we
are very accepting of our people, no matter
what their religions, sexual preference, or
whatever. The fact is that we ail have to stick
together because we are second-class citizens
in this country. At the most basic level, which
is what the Bronx is, we’re just trying to
survive — that’s what it’s all about.”
—Actor Jesse Borrego discussing the role
of Alexis, a pre-op transsexual, in his new
movie I Like It Like That in the November
issue of OvA.
“When the audience sees these two guys
sharing these sweet MGM kisses, well, they’ll
be dreamy. I know I was. In the rehearsals,
the first time they did it, I thought to myself,
‘This is what we’ve all been waiting for!”’
—Playwright and producer Paul Rudnick
on the on-screen romance between two men
in his up-coming film adaptation of his play
Jeffi’ey, to be released sometime next year.
“You have a young person, a gay person,
confused about his or her sexuality, not only
confused but despondent, depressed, ashamed,
thinking of himself or herself as maybe less
than fully human—sometimes I think we talk
about gay and lesbian people on the floor of
the Senate as if they were less than fully
human — often thrown out in the streets by
their families and all too often driven to drugs
and alcohol to numb the pain. You mean to
tell me that we would pass an amendment in
this Chamber that would say that if that young
man or that young woman was to go to a
counselor in our school system, there could be
no counseling to save that young person’s
life?”
—Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) in a speech
during the floor debate on the amendments
sponsored by Sen. Jesse Helms attached to
the Elementary & Secondary Education Act.
The amendments were eventually defeated.
“Earth to National Gay and Lesbian Lead
ers, come in please. I’m transmitting this
heartfelt missive to Planet Beltway, hoping
desperately that you will receive it. I’m not
the first to try, but in spite of technological
advances, it seems no one has yet succeeded
in getting through. We out here in the far
reaches of the Queer Universe haven’t a clue
as to what you’re doing.”
—Michelangelo Signorile, in his column
Signorile In America in the December-Janu-
ary issue of Out
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