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Advocate, The, August 30, 2005
"More than 100 people tried to cram into a small auditorium at the Keene [N.H.] Public Library last night to give their views on gay marriage.... Massachusetts now legally recognizes same-sex marriages ... and one of that state's representatives, Philip Travis, attended the meeting to urge New Hampshire not to do the same.... 'Homosexuality,' [said] Travis, 'is a choice that's made over time. We read hundreds of studies on this in Massachusetts. You never heard of an interracial marriage involving two black men.'"
--From the New Hampshire Union Leader, July 26
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"I grew up in Mechanicsville, Va., and once a week I'd hear 'faggot' in the cafeteria. It could have been drama class, could have been the patent-leather shoes. It confused me, because I thought I was hanging out with the hottest girls."
--Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz, as quoted in the August issue of Blender
"Barry Levy, a Christian counselor and licensed clinical social worker, is explaining to me what causes homosexuality. 'Take the young boy who is more sensitive, more delicate, who doesn't like rough-and-tumble, who is artistic,' he says. 'He can't hit the ball, fire the gun, or shoot the arrow. There is a high correlation between poor hand-eye coordination and same-sex attraction.'"
--Mark Benjamin, in Salon.com's four-part series on "ex-gay" ministries and "conversion therapy," July 19
"You learn to control your anxiety about riding that bronc [in the gay rodeo] the same way you learn to control your anxiety about being something that a lot of people are against, I learn to be calm about something that I'm very, very scared about."
--FTM rodeo competitor Bailey Kier, as quoted in the August issue of Details
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