“If you are straight, you have nothing to fear from AIDS.”

—Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, drawing laughter from African heads of state in Mozambique, 07.12.03.

“Maybe there needs to be some public education on the risks [of homosexuality].”

—Pete LaBarbera of Concerned Women for America, on rising gay HIV rates, Washington Times, 7.29.03.

“Oh, you’re one of the sodomites! You should only get AIDS and die, you pig!”

—(fired) MSNBC shock jock Michael Savage, 07.05.03