Pictured San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Photo by Rex Wockner

‘I wish I was gay; I’m straight. I’d be having the time of my life.’ — San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to this column, April 11 at the University of California at San Diego.

‘I have to admit that as a Mormon, I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman… and a woman, and a woman.’ — Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who has ferociously opposed same-sex marriage, speaking at a St. Patrick’s Day breakfast March 20 in Boston, according to the Associated Press.

‘I did it [got a dyke haircut] as a ‘fuck you’ [to the company I was fighting with over my magazine]. ‘You think you can scare me with your corporate suit? C’mere. You don’t know what I’ve lived through. Watch this. I’ll shave my fuckin’ hair off. Want to call me a dyke? I’ll be a bigger dyke than you could ever see.” — Rosie O’Donnell to the Boston gay newspaper Bay Windows, March 10.

‘I was out to every single human I knew in my life. Including my entire staff in every movie I ever did. No one ever in my life did I tell that I was not gay. I never ever, ever, ever was in the closet and it pissed me off when people said that…. Yeah, I never said it, because it was an afternoon talk show in 1995. That’s why I never said it.’ — O’Donnell to Bay Windows.

‘I’ve been up-front with guys about my [HIV-positive] status. They’re still like, ‘It’s fine [not to use a rubber.] ‘ But I don’t advocate barebacking. It’s fine with a consenting partner, but not if you’re going out and screwing willy-nilly.’ — Singer Andy Bell of Erasure to POZ magazine, April issue.

‘I think back in grade school I had a crush on Bobby Sherman. I remember hanging out with my cousin and she had a Bobby Sherman album and I’d think, ‘God, man. He’s hot!” — Gay porn star Colton Ford to the Palm Springs gay magazine Pulp, March 11.

‘A huge chunk of BushCo’s voting bloc is evangelical or born-again Christian. Millions of otherwise decent and sincere Americans who actually believe the Bible as literal word-for-word truth, verbatim, no questions asked, not metaphor and not parable and not lovely set of nice, same-as-every-other-religion mythologies by which we set our moral compasses, but a set of actual facts told in cautionary dramedy, like a silly locust-ridden reality-TV show. Extreme Jesus: Apocalypse Edition.’ — SFGate.com columnist Mark Morford, March 24.

‘ [I] n this day of traditional family values and so on, this man that we follow [Jesus] was single as far as we know; who traveled with a bunch of men, although there were lots of women around; who had a disciple who was known as ‘the one whom Jesus loved’; who said my family is not my mother and father, my family are those who do the will of God…. Those who would posit the nuclear family as the be-all and end-all of God’s creation probably don’t find that much in the Gospels to support that.’ — Openly gay New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson as quoted in the New Hampshire Union Leader, April 5.

‘From the start, I’ve always admired Eminem’s thinking. That’s the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I was asked, despite all the nonsense talked about his being homophobic. Let the Boy Georges and the George Michaels of the world get up in a twist about it if they don’t have the intelligence to see his intelligence.’ — Elton John writing in Rolling Stone magazine, April 7.

‘The epitome of a good old boy—a good-for-nothing old boy.’ — Boy George on George W. Bush, to Britain’s The Guardian, March 19.

‘My ideal man, at the moment, would be Russian—emotionally cold, harboring a wicked sense of humor and liable to do anything if you give him enough vodka.’ — Singer Boy George to London’s Gay Times, April issue.

‘Gay culture is much too shiny for me. Today I want to return to shame, to the days of surreptitious gay action in dark alleys.’ — Singer Boy George to London’s Gay Times.

‘I basically was raised by two gay men, Ernie and Mort, who were best friends. When we didn’t have a place to stay, we stayed with them.’ — Singer Mariah Carey to the Miami gay newspaper The Weekly News, March 31.