Out Quotes

I don’t have a problem being a gay icon, it’s not a big deal to me. But I think the gay speculation, along with when I was accused of taking drugs in 2000, was an attempt to pull me down from the top. Some people think it’s an insult to say, -˜Oh, I think he’s gay,’ but I don’t take it that way. I’m not gay.

-” Swimmer Ian Thorpe tells it straight in the Good Weekend.

We’re an institution so people assume we’re there forever. But if people don’t use us, we won’t be.

-” Jim McSweeney, manager of Gay’s The Word, the only gay bookshop in the UK, on the shop’s financial troubles. The shop, which opened in 1979, was seriously affected by the 2005 London bombings because of its proximity to the site of a bus explosion. McSweeney has enlisted literary giants Edmund White and Sarah Waters to help its survival. In The Independent.

We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.

-” Pop sensation Mika tells Perth’s Sunday Times why he keeps his sexuality to himself.

I’ve had a lot of women confess that I’m their crush, or their husbands will tell me that their wives have had an -˜unnaturally intimate’ response to me.

-” Actress Rachel Griffiths tells The Advocate about her not-so-secret admirers.

The prime minister’s always said the Liberal Party is a broad church. I think, if it’s broad, the pews must be quite small and the aisles very narrow. I think it’s more a conservative church now, and not broad enough, because there’s a whole bunch of people out there that bring a different aspect. Maybe they’re for gay marriage, maybe they’re for bringing home Hicks early, but they can still be Liberals and those people don’t really have a home now.

-” Former Liberal Party strategist Ian Kortlang laments the lack of diversity in the party, on the ABC’s 7:30 Report.