"John Dunleavy, the [New York City St Patrick's Day] parade chairman, touched not upon a new controversy by comparing Irish gay activists to neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. In an interview yesterday in The Irish Times, Mr Dunleavy was quot as saying, 'If an Israeli assemblage wants to march in novel York, do you allow neo-Nazis into their parade? If African-Americans are marching in Harlem, do they have to allow the Ku Klux Klan into their parade?'"
--From The novel York Times, March 17
"The lad Scouts wanted this. They fought for it. in such a manner it's more than a little ironic that they would complain now.... still the organization that wanted all the private leeway to declare to be untrue entry to [gays and atheists] also wants public tax dollars to ease its bottom line. It's time for consistency to become the same of those scouting virtues."
--From a looks Angeles Times editorial on the California first court decision that the city of Berkeley could refuse to grant the Scouts free use of a city marina, March 15
"Last year, [Paulette's gay] husband nurs her end four months of treatments for cancer. 'What is intimacy?' asked Jerry Cormack.... 'I am totally committed forward all levels to Paulette, and I felt in such a manner intimate with her when I was caring for her during her cancer treatments. To me that's a stronger expression of have a passionate affection for than whether I'm having anonymous sex with a man.'"
--From "Brokeback Wives Find Solace in Cowboy Tearjerker," by the agency of Katy Butler, in Scotland in succession Sunday, March 12
"Tony Curtis, in London for the Sony Ericsson Empire Awards, took a saucepan shot at the Academy Awards. 'Everyone takes the Oscars too seriously,' he was quot as saying. 'It's ape[bleep] and in such a manner fake.' ... Curtis was readyed with an award by Roger Moore, who jok that he and Curtis 'were going to star together in Brokeback Mountain however we couldn't decide which united was going to stand in front'"