“That boy needs a dose of reparative therapy.”
         spokesman for the Purity Christian League

 “I was in love long ago.  I was never kissed.”
         sweet old Methodist lady from Harts Creek

“If Whitman had been a hillbilly, this is what he would have written.”
         a very old hippie in Asheville, North Carolina

  “With repression like that, they deserve one another.”
        member of ACT UP

 “Thank god the sexual revolution didn't make it to West Virginia.”
        sociologist at Immaculate Conception College, Morgantown

 “That carpenter needs to get in touch with his inner homo.”
        gay pageant queen, Charleston, West Virginia

 “Anyhow, he married her at the last.”
        beautician at the Hair Raising Shoppe, Man, West Virginia

 “There ain't them kind of men around here, not in these mountains.”
        tavern owner in Madison, West Virginia

 “Wonder if he would do real time?”
        John-VVVA, 31, blond/blue, 5'8", 150, r/t, on gay.com

 “It's the closest to a novel I've seen in poetry since Browning.”
        professor of English, University of Princeton

 “She should have kicked both their butts.”
        random comment from the National Organization of Women

 “Wouldn't want a blasphemer like that woman anywhere near my congregation.  She'd corrupt ever one of them.”
        preacher for the Glorious Original Church

 “I would have gone to Cleveland with him.”
       florist in Hazard, Kentucky

 “Was his parents back here in West Virginia, or what?”
      waitress at the Mountain Top Restaurant