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Vol 1. No 6. March, 1998
Queer Quotes
Wockner News
"Any child can look at me and
draw whatever conclusion they want to inspire them in
their life. I do not mind being used that way. But I
don't have a desire to do that for adults. I don't want
to have some adjective preceding my name for the rest of
my life, whatever it may be, however people want to
pigeonhole me. Is that mildly vague enough?"
- Rosie O'Donnell to US magazine, February issue.
"The private sector is huge and
making a fat living off of AIDS. There is no recourse for
people with AIDS to do anything about it."
- Jeff Getty, who made headlines two years ago when
he was injected with bone marrow from a baboon in a
failed attempt to find a new AIDS therapy, to the San
Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 27.
"The word [barebacking] should
be banished from the vocabulary of any person who truly
cares about the direction of the AIDS epidemic. Gay men
and those who work in and run AIDS agencies have a
particular responsibility to stand up to the lethal
seduction of this idiotic euphemism. We all need to start
calling it what it is: unprotected, unsafe anal
intercourse. If you must substitute a phrase for it, use
a fair one that tells the facts. Call it 'death by
stupidity.' Call it 'I'm going to throw away my life
because I refuse to think of the consequences of my
actions.' Call it what it is: irresponsible."
- Philadelphia Daily News columnist Mubarak Dahir,
Jan. 13.
"Gay chat rooms can be either a
hunting ground for That One Special Someone, a means to
1970s-style fast-lane promiscuity (but with 1990s-style
efficiency), or a venue for that most distinctive '90s
phenomenon of all, cybersex. Gay chat rooms can bring out
the worldclass fabricator in a person who never thought
he was capable of deceit, yet also allow some people to
tell their own deepest truths for the very first time.
Indeed, with their wide-ranging coverage of sexual
fetishes, chat rooms have made it possible for many
people to discover deep truths about themselves.
Meanwhile, the plentitude and popularity of chat rooms
with names like 'str8 but curious' has bolstered
suspicions that the percentage of people whose essential
orientation is homosexual is not under but over
10%."
- Writer Bruce Bawer in a Feb. 3 Advocate column.
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