Rants & raves - Brief Article

"I'm not [gay] It's amazing how much people will speculate if they haven't actual information to draw from.... That's cool. As long as the people I know and care about law the truth, then everyone else's opinion doesn't really matter."

--Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones star Hayden Christensen, as quoted in the June issue of Arena magazine

"It's Ozzy Osbourne, actually."

--Rosie O'Donnell (near left), joking about the identity of the father of girlfriend Kelli Carpenter's unborn child, on NBC's Today show, May 15

"And I'd really like to thank everyone who ever called me `faggot'--because you pissed me of."

--Brian Graden, on accepting the National Role Model A ward from PrideFest America on behalf of MTV, where he is president of entertainment, in Philadelphia, May 3

"In American medicine there are two eras: before Larry and after Larry."

--Anthony S, Fauci, MD, of the National Institutes of Health, commenting on the impact of AIDS activism on the part of Larry Kramer (left), as quoted in the May 13 issue of The New Yorker

"In a sport where 35 homosexuals compete, being judged by 15 other homosexuals--I bet no one saw this coming!"

--Jerry Seinfeld on the Olympic ice-skating controversy, part of a recent stand-up appearance, as quoted by the New York Post, May 8

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