Rants & raves: our favorite quotes of 2007 from Advocate interviews
Advocate, The, Jan 15, 2008
"Even if change were simple, easy, quick, convenient, and possible, which it is not, why would we want to swap what is first-class, superior homosexuality for second-class, inferior heterosexuality?"--Activist Frank Kameny, June 3
"On the battlefield they put our fingers behind the trigger, but when we come home we don't have the same rights as the rest of America."--Eric Alva, the gay military service member who was the first casualty of the Iraq war, June 3
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"I've heard a couple of guys say [homophobic] things, and those guys are not around me anymore because when they say things like that, I'm looking at them like, What makes you so scared? You don't know who you are?"--Mary J. Blige, December 4
"I thought everyone wanted to be Wonder Woman."--Former Savage Garden lead singer Darren Hayes, April 24
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"My first blow job was from a man, but I didn't know it was a man.... It happens to a lot of people."--Film director Brett Ratner, August 3, on Advocate.com
"It's not true.... People will say what they want to say."--Hillary Clinton on how she reacts to the lesbian rumors, October 9
"When you live in a post--Six Feet Under world, it's kind of hard to go back to drawing gay characters like they're stereotypes again."--Brothers & Sisters executive producer Greg Berlanti, October 23
"Just don't look upstairs, OK? That's all I'm going to say."--Actress Kristanna Loken, when asked about rumors that she was dating Michelle Rodriguez, January 30
"Look, I have friends and family ... in the community. What the hell am I supposed to do, just stand by?"--Cyndi Lauper, April 24
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