Two people apply lipstick in front of mirrors. The person on the left has blonde hair and is using a lipstick tube, while the person on the right has long brown hair and applies lip gloss.

People Will Talk: The all-over-the-map edition

By Nancy Ford


Charlize Theron

“Yes, I thought she was a boy, too. Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said, ‘I am not a boy!’ So there you go! I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to protect and I want to see thrive. They were born who they are and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide. My job as a parent is to celebrate them and to love them and to make sure that they have everything they need in order to be what they want to be.â€

—Actor Charlize Theron, announcing that her seven year-old child, assigned male at birth, is transgender. Via DailyMail.co.uk

“I was way out there by myself on gay and lesbian rights, starting my first month in office, in January 1991. And for 10 years, no one followed suit. I appointed the woman who wrote the decision holding equality of marriage as constitutionally compelled, which led to the Supreme Court case holding that.â€

—Former governor of Massachusetts William Weld, who is challenging Donald Trump for the 2020 Republican nomination for U.S. president. Via LGBTQNation.com

“Vana and the amazing queens at the Blazing Saddle in Des Moines invited me for a visit tonight before their show. I felt underdressed, so I brought a dress I picked up yesterday. Turns out it fit me, but it fit Vana even better! Thank you for having me, ladies!â€

—New York senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand. Via Twitter.com

“I posted the shirt for new swag and it just went out of hand and it got blowed up.â€

—Belle’s Smokin BBQ food truck owner Jamie Smith, promoting their new T-shirts on social media. Smith later apologized, posting, “We respect all beliefs and lifestyles and want no ill will towards anyone. We know each person has their own thoughts and beliefs but we are hurt that the people who are saying, ‘stop the hate’ are the ones coming at us with the harassing messages and threatening phone calls. Again we apologize for any hurt feelings and thank our supporters who truly know us.†Via NYPost.com

“There are literally children who are going to be seduced into the homosexual lifestyle because this man is heralded as a hero. He’s a champion, and that makes him more sinister than the average person… he’s an evildoer. He’s the beautiful face of evil.â€

—Randall Terry of the extreme anti-choice group Operation Rescue, protesting openly gay Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg at a campaign stop in Iowa. TheHawkEye.com
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg

“Coffee after church gets a little rowdy sometimes.â€

—Openly gay Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg, responding to Terry. Via TheHawkEye.com

“What? Oh, I just can’t say that word. Well, I can when I’m in the house, but I can’t say it outside the house. Okay, because I am queer as two motherfuckers. I’m queer, I’m alien, I don’t belong here with all these people. They makes no sense. They are very queer. That makes me queer, I guess. But I did put the Q in it. Bye!

—Actor/comedian turned right-wing activist, Roseanne Barr, explaining why when she uses the word “fag†it isn’t a slur. Via YouTube.com

“As governments around the world come under increasing pressure to protect LGBTQ rights, Russian authorities stubbornly retain laws that imperil the community’s safety. We can only hope that this ruling forces Russian officials to see LGBTQ people for what they really are: equal to anyone else.â€

—Daniel Balson, Europe and Central Asia advocacy director for Amnesty International, reacting to a first-of-its-kind Russian court ruling favoring of a transgender woman who claimed she was fired because of her gender identity. The Frunze District Court of St. Petersburg awarded “Anastasia Vasilyeva†nearly $28,000 in damages and lost wages after she was terminated from the Yanoshka printing press in 2017. Via LGBTQNation.com

“As a historian, I’m hoping to inform as many people as I can about our history. So in some way the coin is opening up that opportunity.â€

—York University historian Tom Hooper, commenting on the Royal Canadian Mint releasing a new commemorative coin marking the decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada. The coin is called a “loonie.â€

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