Yes, we think so too. Brad Pitt looks pretty in pink.

Brad would be one of our Raves. As would the Advocate, which inspired this piece. Thing is the Advocate would be one of our Rants, as well:

We love the Advocate, surely the magazine of record for Gay America. But sometimes we find it a wee too earnest. A wee too parochial. And just telling us more than we could ever use about happily married lesbians and Gay-Straight Alliances in the Midwest.

But there’s one section of the magazine that always tickles us pink: the selection of gay-themed celebrity quotes each month called Rants & Raves. In case you missed them here are our favorite citings of 2005:

	“Like I’m going to come out to a Republican.”
	– Hunky muscleman rocker Henry Rollins (left), on the rumor that he was going to come out to MTV’s Kennedy
	"I tell everybody that I’m a quarter-sexual. I will do anything with anybody for a quarter."
	– Merv Griffin

Handsome, handsome fellow. Tender lover."
— Brad Pitt in a comic riff on his film co-star Vince Vaughn
"I’m scared of plastic surgery. You’re somewhere between a burn victim and a female impersonator."
— Susan Sarandon (right)

	"I asked for a couple of more takes."
	— Robert Downey (left) on filming a kiss with Val Kilmer
	Clinton is The Man. And you know what? I’d do him."
	— Brendan Fraser

"I thought, oh dear, I hope this doesn’t hurt sales."
— Educator Alice Stolz on the outing of James West, the homophobic gay mayor of Spokane, Washington. Stolz had written a glowing biography of the mayor for a high school textbook.
"You can’t be dancing in a gay club with your shirt off and then pretend you’re married. It wouldn’t work."
— Rupert Everett (right) on being publicly closeted and privately gay, and why he has always been an out actor

Special thanks to the Advocate.

Photo of Rupert Everett by Gary Gorman
from The Male Nude
Published by Taschen.