“They’ve done nothing short of calling me gay and her a whore. None of those things are true. I’m pretty firm in my sexuality and my love for women.”
Country singer Kenny Chesney, on media coverage of his four-month marriage to actress Renee Zellweger, who is seeking to annul their May nuptials (People, Nov. 13)

“I want to try to dispose of this issue. It’s occupied the last three years of my life; a lot of time, a lot of energy and I’d like to apply that to health care. I’d like to apply that to some of the other issues that we have in front of us, that as far as I’m concerned, are much more important to our constituents at this point.”
Democratic Massachusetts state Rep. Eugene L. O’Flaherty, a leading gay marriage opponent, announcing he would no longer try to prevent gay couples from marrying (Bay Windows, Nov. 10)

“To sum up, you’re left-handed, you’re Jewish. But there is something else about you. And this is sort of the elephant in the room that I’m not naming, but as a journalist I feel like I have to name it. Um, you’re a little overweight.”
Stephen Colbert, host of the new Comedy Central show “The Colbert Report,” interviewing Barney Frank, who is gay, about whether being overweight bothered the congressman’s wife (“The Colbert Report,” Oct. 27)

“I can honestly say to you whether or not I lose weight is of no concern whatsoever to my wife.”
Barney Frank (“The Colbert Report,” Oct. 27)

“Yes, I am in the process of getting a divorce, but I am not dating, nor will I ever be dating a woman, because I am not gay. It is unfortunate that my divorce has started rumors in the media that are untrue.”
Boxer Laila Ali, daughter of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who took the unusual step of issuing a press release to announce she’s not a lesbian (United Press Internation, Nov. 110

“I always thought Jonathan was not the most masculine man that I had been with. All men aren’t masculine. He wasn’t effeminate.”
Best-selling author Terry McMillan on her gay ex-husband, Jonathan Plummer (“The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Nov. 9)

“The zit on the end of my nose here — the Lord has punished me for supporting gay marriage.”
Texas gubernatorial hopeful Kinky Friedman, reacting to voters in that state approving a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage by a 3-to-1 margin; Friedman opposed the ban (Associated Press, Nov. 10)

“You can get drunk and beat up your wife and that’s quite acceptable, but if someone were to say, ‘I’m gay,’ it’s considered awful. It’s ridiculous.”
Alan Smith, who managed two British soccer teams, saying the sport is not ready for its first openly gay player (BBC, Nov. 11)

“A whole year on, I still am surprised to think of myself as a married man. Surprised in a great and wonderful way.”
Gregory Maguire, author of “Wicked: The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” later developed into the Broadway musical “Wicked,” who married his husband Andy Newman last year in Massachusetts (Associated Press, Nov. 12)

“That’s why they have menus in restaurants. I like steak, some people like spaghetti. That’s OK.”
Donald Trump on learning one of the contestants on his reality show is a gay man (“The Apprentice,”Nov. 3)

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