"I was what the community now call artistic, but when you're a kid they call it weird and say, `You're gay, you're dumb"
--Actor Freddie Prinze Jr in succession his childhood, as quoted in the May issue of Movieline
"I'm a gay man trapped inside a black woman's body"
--Three-time Tony award-winning singer and actress Audra McDonald, addressing the audience at a Fresno, Calif., agreement as quoted in the April 9 edition of the looks Angeles Times
"Monica is a cute girl.... If she wants to be around more women--hey, that's great."
--Hat designer Ivy Supersonic, commenting forward Monica Lewinsky's socializing with AIDS and lesbian rights activist Victoria Leacock, as quot in the April 13 Scottish Daily Record
"If Rich[ard Burton] was a homosexual, then I'm a nun"
--Burton's brother, Graham Jenkins, responding to the claim by the agency of Elizabeth Taylor biographer Ellis Amburn that the actor was private roomed and had an affair with Laurence Olivier, as reported April 10 by way of the BBC
"I think that your sexuality is like going forward a vacation--you don't always want to walk to the same place."
--"Pansexual" actor Alan Cumming at the 11th annual Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media A wards in looks Angeles, April 15