Quote of the Day: January 2008
Offending Margaret Cho
Filed by Ed Team | January 31, 2008 | 7:44 AM |"I too am insulted at the idea that just because I am a person of color and a woman that I should be expected to automatically vote for Obama or Hillary. Why are white men allowed to look at the...Read More
Clay Aiken: He's just too busy
Filed by Ed Team | January 30, 2008 | 7:38 AM |“I just don’t have an interest in … any of that at all. I have got too much on my plate. I’d rather focus on one thing and do that when I can devote time to it, and right now,...Read More
Caroline Kennedy: Just like my daddy
Filed by Ed Team | January 29, 2008 | 7:07 AM |"Over the years, I've been deeply moved by the people who've told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. This sense is even more profound today. That...Read More
Ray Jencar: The Turtle
Filed by Ed Team | January 28, 2008 | 7:32 AM |There once was a man who carried his house on his back. He carried it with him everywhere he went. He hated to leave anything behind and besides there were many things that wouldn't fit inside his pockets. So every...Read More
Barack Obama: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 27, 2008 | 8:09 AM |"We have fine candidates in the field - fierce competitors, worthy of respect and our admiration. And as contentious as this campaign may get, we have to remember that this is a contest for the Democratic nomination, and that all...Read More
Aaron Hicklin: Homotexual
Filed by Ed Team | January 26, 2008 | 7:28 AM |"Am I wrong to think that we get offended too easily? Not that we don’t have a lot to get angry about, but sometimes I get so weary of the acrimony and the bile, the high-pitched whine that seems to...Read More
New York Times endorses Clinton
Filed by Ed Team | January 25, 2008 | 7:53 AM |"The early primaries produced two powerful main contenders: Hillary Clinton, the brilliant if at times harsh-sounding senator from New York; and Barack Obama, the incandescent if still undefined senator from Illinois. The remaining long shot, John Edwards, has enlivened the...Read More
Barbara Ehrenreich: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 24, 2008 | 7:19 AM |"With all the talk about how to stimulate it, you'd think that the economy is a giant clitoris." --Barbara Ehrenreich...Read More
Mitt Romney: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 23, 2008 | 7:45 AM |“Who let the dogs out? Who! Who!" --Mitt Romney, at an MLK Day parade in Florida...Read More
Barack Obama: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 22, 2008 | 7:00 AM |"So let us say that on this day of all days, each of us carries with us the task of changing our hearts and minds. The division, the stereotypes, the scape-goating, the ease with which we blame our plight on...Read More
Martin Luther King Jr.: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 21, 2008 | 6:00 AM |"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to...Read More
Joe Solmonese - Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 20, 2008 | 7:29 AM |"The best way to keep issues of significance to the GLBT community on the front burner, discussed in a positive and constructive way, is to actively engage and motivate our community to participate. If you don’t define who you are...Read More
Paul Varnell: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 19, 2008 | 7:29 AM |"Clever studies that manage to change an insect’s or animal’s overall behavior from male typical to female typical are not about homosexuality at all. Male homosexual behavior has no particular connection to acting like a female. It is not thinking...Read More
Uri Horesh: homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 18, 2008 | 7:18 AM |"The fact that the university is conducting itself in this manner makes me feel like I'm a persona non grata here, a person whose rights are less important than others." --Uri Horesh, an Arabic lecturer at the University of Texas,...Read More
Hillary Clinton on her greatest weakness
Filed by Ed Team | January 17, 2008 | 7:06 AM |"I get impatient. I get, you know, really frustrated when people don’t seem to understand that we can do so much more to help each other. Sometimes I come across that way. I admit that. I get very concerned about,...Read More
Cody Castagna: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 16, 2008 | 7:47 AM |"I can't believe I'm facing six felonies and he's not facing anything." --Cody Castagna, accused of extorting former Washington state rep. Richard Curtis for $1000 after having sex with him...Read More
Shark-Fu on Steinem
Filed by Ed Team | January 15, 2008 | 7:09 AM |"After reading Steinem’s Op-Ed I felt invisible…as if black and woman can’t exist in the same body. I felt undocumented…as if the history of blacks and the history of women have nothing to do with the history of black women.[...]...Read More
Rosanne Barr: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 14, 2008 | 7:16 AM |"Class erases Race, and Class erases Gender. But within the race or gender itself, there will still be class divisions. Within the Class, seperation [sic] occurs first by gender, and race second. Each ranking will ultimately be about class. Like...Read More
Susan Stanton: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 13, 2008 | 7:29 AM |"I think we need to do a whole lot more educating before we’re going to be able to realistically have the support on the national level to get this passed. I personally don’t feel denying the rights of one group...Read More
Elizabeth Birch: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 12, 2008 | 7:31 AM |"At this moment of history for us it’s life and death. For other people it’s a wonderful privilege but for us it’s literally our lives." -- Elizabeth Birch, former president of the Human Rights Campaign, in Bay Windows on the...Read More
Rear Adm. Harry Harris: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 11, 2008 | 7:01 AM |"I believe truly that I am holding no innocent men in Guantanamo." -- Rear Adm. Harry Harris, the man in charge of the U.S. military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, in an interview with Nightline...Read More
Joe Solmonese: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 10, 2008 | 7:22 AM |"To me, it's not that we left anyone behind, but [there's] the feeling of being left behind. It's that feeling of left behind rather than the reality of left behind because no one is being protected now - gays and...Read More
Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 09, 2008 | 7:12 AM |"Based on national media reports, controversial stances such as those indicated in your application responses have resulted in property damage and the potential for increased litigation among churches that have chosen to publicly endorse these positions." -- Brotherhood Mutual Insurance...Read More
Lee Sherman Dreyfus: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 08, 2008 | 7:20 AM |"It is a fundamental tenet of the Republican Party that government ought not to intrude in the private lives of individuals where no state purpose is served, and there is nothing more private or intimate than who you live with...Read More
Ok Go: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 07, 2008 | 7:04 AM |"Ice age upon catastrophic ice age of selection and only one result has trickled in... The house wins. Oh the house always wins. If evil were a lesser breed then justice after all these years the righteous would have freed...Read More
Mike Huckabee: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 06, 2008 | 7:26 AM |"Unless Moses comes down with two stone tablets from Brokeback Mountain to tell us something different, we need to keep that understanding of marriage.” -- Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee speaking to a group of Christian conservatives...Read More
Eric Rofes: Homotexual
Filed by Ed Team | January 05, 2008 | 7:30 AM |"We must demand that the full resources of our nations be committed to the development of new prevention technologies such as rectal microbicides that will allow us another way to care for each other and keep each other healthy. We...Read More
Peterson Toscano: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 04, 2008 | 7:45 AM |You wanna be an Activist? Change the World? Be yourself -- without apology and without shame, walking hand in hand in public with the one you love knowing that is a loving act of Protest. You want people to change?...Read More
Barack Obama: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 03, 2008 | 7:25 AM |"Today, New Hampshire has started a New Year by taking an important step forward that will make a meaningful difference in the lives of so many gay and lesbian couples. As President, I’ll work for the day when all gay...Read More
John Edwards: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 02, 2008 | 7:41 AM |"In April of last year, Gov. Lynch and the state of New Hampshire passed a bill officially recognizing civil unions for gay and lesbian couples. This courageous act showed us that the idea of America – fairness, justice and equal...Read More
Benjamin Franklin: Homotextual
Filed by Ed Team | January 01, 2008 | 7:07 AM |"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." -- Benjamin Franklin...Read More
