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“I think Kylie [Minogue] would have my head on a plate if I worked with Madonna. Really, I’m not interested in collaborating with her; I love Kylie too much. We had a real ball, and I have a massive crush on her. She is just a really amazing, funny person and really cool.”
Gay Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears, who collaborated with gay icon Kylie Minogue on a track on her CD “Ultimate Kylie” (Ireland Online, Sept. 6)
“I love seeing [Madonna] perform. It’s such a spectacle. To be 48 and look and move like that, it’s fabulous.”
Gay fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, who designed the costumes for Madonna’s “Confessions Tour,” on attending his fourth performance of the show (Women’s Wear Daily, Sept. 5)
“There is a male quality to the female superstar. There has to be. … Flocks of executive seagulls will try to take her and drop her onto the rocks. She must learn to fuck them before they fuck her if she is to survive, so she becomes a kind of she-man, a beautiful woman with invisible balls.”
Gay actor Rupert Everett about his friends and costars Madonna and Julia Roberts in an excerpt from his upcoming memoir reprinted in U.K.’s Daily Mail (Sept. 4)
“You know what I say when I’m fucking a guy? I say, ‘Stop, look at me. Now talk to me.’”
Actress Sharon Stone, to gay actor Rupert Everett as he lay naked on top of her, filming a scene for “A Different Loyalty,” as recounted in Everett’s upcoming autobiography (Out.com)
“About 10 seconds in some cases.”
Sharon Stone, when asked by Rupert Everett how long it takes her to turn a gay man straight (Out.com)
“You all thought I was going to have problems with Elisabeth!”
Rosie O’Donnell’s response to some good-natured ribbing from “The View” co-host Joy Behar about co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck’s conservative positions, during O’Donnell’s debut on the ABC show (ABC, Sept. 5)
“I never dreamed I’d kiss James Bond. Now that I’ve done it, I say I hope I’m just the first of many.”
Toby Jones, the British actor who plays gay author Truman Capote in the upcoming film “Infamous,” on his on-screen kiss with Daniel Craig, the actor who is set to debut as the new James Bond in “Casino Royale” (Associated Press, Sept. 1)
“Feeling that one is trapped in the body of someone of the opposite sex does not make the person ‘gay.’ It means he or she is a transsexual. Your friend needs understanding, not isolation.”
Advice from syndicated columnist Dear Abbey to a man in his 60s asking about his a friend’s acknowledgment that he likes to wear women’s clothing (syndicated column, Sept. 1)
“We consider the Washington Blade the New York Post of the gay and lesbian press corps. They’re not credible and they have somebody there who has an agenda which is clearly not favorable to the Democratic Party so we simply don’t give them any credence.”
Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean, on the Blade’s coverage of his decision to fire Donald Hitchcock, the party’s gay outreach chair, a week after Hitchcock’s domestic partner, Paul Yandura, publicly criticized Dean for not helping the battle against statewide anti-marriage initiatives (IN Los Angeles Magazine, Sept. issue)
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