"I absolutely admit I had him in the handcuffs, so he wouldn't go anywhere while I checked the computer. I certainly wasn't going to kill him—that's hardly going to do my career any good, is it?"
—"Boy George" O'Dowd, who was found guilty on December 5 of unlawfully imprisoning a prostitute and sentenced to 15 months in prison, on a police recording played during his recent trial
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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."
—Rush Hour director Brett Ratner, to Advocate.com
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"If it's a distraction of that sort, it's not worth the candle. [Besides,] every night, when I'd take my clothes off, you know what I used to do? Pull in my stomach. That's pathetic."
—Sir Ian McKellen, on PBS omitting his nude scene from their upcoming broadcast of "King Lear"
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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, to The Advocate
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"He's about an inch taller and about four shades tanner than I am. He's a very fit young man. Believe me, he does quite well for himself."
—Fantastic Four hunk Chris Evans, talking about his even hotter gay brother
Read the full interview in The Advocate
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"[Prop. 8] is discrimination and I don't understand how people can be so closed-minded and so judgmental. Why you would put so much money behind something [aimed at] stopping people from loving each other? Mormons aren't gonna buy my album but—you know—what are you gonna do?"
—Christina Aguilera
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"Look, you're either an asshole or you're not an asshole. If you happen to be gay and an asshole, you're still just an asshole."
—Bobby Cannavale, to The Advocate
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"I am the luckiest girl in the world but am sad because African-Americans are equal finally, but gay marriage is not."
—Britney Spears does her best to stay informed
Quoted by boston.com
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"The gay label doesn't really bother me, as long as it's just not something that is restrictive. I just don't think one should live one's life as a gay man. I don't think that sexuality necessarily implies a life style package that comes with it."
—The Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant to the Washington Blade
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"There are people who have said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption—basically of gay rights—but with all due respect I humbly dissent. I'm not being brave. I'm being a decent human being."
—Anne Hathaway, receiving the Ally Award at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual gala in Los Angeles
From the January 13, 2009 issue of The Advocate
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