"To All Queers: As the demagogues of the religious right push ahead with their campaign of hatred against homosexuals, the moment of truth is upon us. Now is the time for all queers to come out and be counted.
To the Sympathetic Straights: Admit it: All of you have some discomfort with homosexuality. Your minds have been as polluted as ours by the homophobic society in which we live. You must now be part of changing that society, beginning in your own home. Your children must be brought up without the hatred, without the slurs, without the closet. They must be taught not only that they should have respect for lesbians and gay men but also that it's okay if they are gay themselves. ... Your queer children must not be forced into the closet. If your children are being closeted — by you, by their teachers, or by their churches — you are engaging in child abuse, brutal psychological terror, the kind that may lead them to consider or even commit suicide. Stop the terror. ... Start thinking about the future, about constructing legislation that will punish people who abuse their children in this way [NOTE: Notice that the writer has no qualms about using the force of law to coerce parents into allowing their kids to follow this destructive and deadly lifestyle].
To the Religious Right: You say we're coming for your children, and you're right. We're coming for your queer children. We are your queer children. God — your God, our God — made us that way. And there's nothing you can do about it. So now we have to be saved — from you — because you do nothing but warp innocent minds. ... We will not allow you to poison all of American life. We will not allow you to breed hatred in our schools.
Our work will not be finished until we can say that the whole world is gay."
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Michelangelo Signorile's "Queer Manifesto." Queer in America: Sex, the Media and the Closets of Power [New York City: Random House], 1993 and Anchor Books, 1994. The last sentence is quoted in David Horowitz. "The Queer Fellows." The American Spectator, January 1993, pages 42 to 48.
Quinn, Sally (Washington Post)
"We were talking about — speaking for all women, if I may, Toni Morrison wrote in The New Yorker that Clinton was our first 'black President,' and I think, in a way, Clinton may be our first 'woman President.' And I think that may be one of the reasons why women identify, because he does have a lot of feminine qualities about him: The softness, the sensitivity, the vulnerability, that kind of thing."
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The Washington Post's Sally Quinn on CNN's "Larry King Live," March 10, 1999.
Quinones, John
"The problem [of pedophiles] has been made only worse by the passage of Proposition 187. It specifically says that no public funds can be used to provide social services to anyone who's in this country illegally. That means that even if social workers for the city or the state wanted to help the boys of Balboa Park they couldn't. It would be against the law. Proposition 187 is now being challenged in court, but its message is clear."
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John Quinones in the March 19, 1997 "Prime TimeLive" story on pedophiles preying on Mexican boys in a San Diego park.
Quint, Bert (CBS)
"This is Marlboro country, southeastern Poland, a place where the transition from Communism to capitalism is making more people more miserable every day. ... No lines at the shops now, but plenty at some of the first unemployment centers in a part of the world where socialism used to guarantee everybody a job."
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CBS News reporter Bert Quint on the April 11, 1990 CBS "Evening News."
"Communism is being swept away, but so too is the social safety net it provided. ... Factories, previously kept alive only by edicts from Warsaw, are closing their doors, while institutions new to the East, soup kitchens and unemployment centers are opening theirs. ... Here are the ones who may profit from Poland's economic freedom. A few slick locals, but mostly Americans, Japanese, and other foreigners out to cash in on a new source of cheap labor."
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CBS News reporter Bert Quint on the May 9, 1990 CBS "This Morning" show.
"But most of his fellow countrymen do not share John Paul's concept of morality. ... Many here expect John Paul to use his authority to support Church efforts to ban abortion, perhaps the country's principal means of birth control. And this, they say, could deprive them of a freedom of choice the Communists never tried to take away from them."
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CBS News reporter Bert Quint on the June 1, 1991 "Evening News."
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