“The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every [writer] thinks, "I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk". I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!” ThinkingWantCommunityMinesPrayingGayJournalistWant MeHomosexualI Pray Author:Ricky Martin
“One time I was doing an interview for a gay magazine and halfway through the journalist found out I wasn't gay. He said, 'Sorry, I can't continue the interview.' Because they only had gay public figures in their magazine. I felt so crestfallen. I wanted to tell him: but I play fundraisers for gay marriage! I'd rather my kids were gay than straight!'” SaidI CanPlayKidsWantedFoundFeltFiguresGaySorryMagazinesJournalistInterviewsOne TimeHalfwayGay MarriagePublic FiguresFundraiser Author:Moby
“It's easy to get young gay men to tickle each other, right? Let's come up with a challenge: Let's get heterosexual men. How do we do that? We make it a competition, because then it's not gay. That explains the antipathy behind the gay-journalist comment.” MenYoungEasyChallengesBehindsGayCompetitionCome UpJournalistCommentGay MenEasy To GetAntipathy Author:David Farrier
“I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber - as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals - are Christians but we journalists don't identify them by their religion.” PeopleWellsChristianRightsMilitaryGayJournalistProtestFuneralGay RightsAtlantaBombers Author:Juan Williams
“Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.” KnowsPersonsDoeTwoRealizingMediaCoupleHigherGayJournalistFrightenedMainstreamBiasPercentagesDiscernmentMainstream MediaMedia Bias Book:Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them Source: Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
“...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If these people were honest, they would have to admit that the Bible is also pro - slavery and anti - women.” PeopleIfsReligionAcceptingHonestGayCatholicSlaveryDefinitionsConservativeJournalistSecularProtestantsEvangelicalRoman CatholicAnti GayPro Slavery Author:John Shelby Spong