Rants & raves

"I asked President [Yoweri] Museveni to get us an island on Lake Victoria and we take these homosexuals and they die out there. If they die there, then we shall have no more homosexuals in the country."

--Uganda's leading Muslim cleric Sheikh Ramathan Shaban Mubajje, at a press conference, October 12

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"I did not solicit sex. I was trying to help somebody out."

--Ex-Washington State representative Richard Curtis--a Republican-responding to Spokane police reports saying he'd had sex with a gay prostitute who allegedly blackmailed him, in The Columbian newspaper of Vancouver, Wash., October 29. He resigned on October 31.

"I think it's awesome that Lance thought I was gay while we were in the band together. He's been going through a lot after coming out, and we respect that and give him his space."

--Former 'N Sync member Chris Kirkpatrick, responding to a magazine article in which Lance Bass said he had thought Kirkpatrick was gay, to People magazine's Web site, October 26

"I think what goes on at that fair is pretty disgusting. Just because you are gay doesn't mean you support the Folsom Street Fair or go there. I don't."

--Openly gay Vallejo, Calif., mayoral candidate Gary Cloutier, when asked at a Vallejo religious forum if he would support an event like San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair, October 20

"I got the script [for the film Smokin' Aces], I read 30 pages, and I threw it in the trash.... I was like, 'There's like every stereotype ever in there. And what's this gay shit too?'"

--Alicia Keys, discussing her ambiguously gay Smokin' Aces role, in Complex magazine's October issue

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