“Why do I have this relationship with France? I’m always drawn to working with French people — and frenching French people. Vive la France!”
Madonna, speaking to the audience at a May 7 private concert in Paris, as she kissed a female backup dancer onstage. (ChinaDaily.com, May 8)
“Where gays go to buy clothes.”
Barack Obama (Photo by AP)
Clue given by Obama campaign staffer Reggie Love as campaign workers and the candidate played the board game “Taboo” with reporters during a May 8 flight. (Associated Press, May 9)
“Abercrombie and Fitch.”
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, responding to the clue. The store that Obama’s teammate was trying to describe was The Gap, but his team still won. (Associated Press, May 9)
“They’ve taken her to the graveyard five or six times, but she’s only driven the hearse back.”
N.C. Gov. Mike Easley explaining that he only meant to say Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is resilient when he remarked that “This lady right here makes Rocky Balboa look like a pansy” in an earlier endorsement. The “pansy” comment drew fire from some gay groups. (Boston Globe, May 6)
“It is absolutely wrong to force any student to share the same bathrooms and showers with homosexual teachers or students.”
From the campaign literature of Walt Bayes, a Republican making a long shot bid for a seat in the Idaho House of Representatives. All of the other Republicans in the race denounced Bayes’ stand. (Idaho Press-Tribune, May 10)
“Oh, it’s two men. Fantastic. There were jokes made that they wouldn’t be able to find two men, so they’d have to doctor the woman by adding a moustache.”
‘Brothers and Sisters’ (Photo courtesy ABC)
Actor Matthew Rhys, speaking to a prop technician holding the cake topper for the wedding of his character, Kevin, to his boyfriend on the May 11 season finale of ABC’s “Brothers and Sisters.” The wedding, described by Rhys as “very progressive, evolved and about time,” was the first same-sex nuptials for a series regular on U.S. television. (USA Today, May 9)
“Gay audiences do love their ageing divas, but I think Sheena Easton is pushing things too far. In Scotland straight and gay audiences both tend not to like people who go away, change their accent and lose complete touch with their roots. I’m very sorry, Sheena, but your invitation to come back to Glasgow is not likely to be sent out any time soon.”
Steven Taylor, producer of Scotland’s largest gay event, Glasgay!, reacting to news that Scottish native Easton is becoming a gay icon in the United States, playing Pride festivals and a gay cruise this summer. (Scotland on Sunday, May 11)
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