A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to see the thing to know that it exists. Maybe there's a queer person in a town, but they… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
They were regular in being gay, they learned little things that are things in being gay, they learned many little things that… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still… — George Weinberg Copy Share Image
When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“The root of heterosexual fear of male homosexuality is in the fact that anyone might be gay. Straight men aren't threatened by… — Vito Russo Copy Share Image
“On June 20, 1951, less than four weeks after the Homer case broke, Hoover escalated the FBI’s Sex Deviates Program. The FBI… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
If youre going to be a romantic idol and try to get every teenage girl to love you, then youd be an… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
What causes homophobia? What is it that makes the heterosexual man worry about this? I think it's because deep down all men… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
This Is Me”: ”For the record, I am not gay and all my sexual experiences have been straight. I'm attracted to women,… — Ian Thorpe Copy Share Image
We've all been watching stories about heterosexuals forever... As a gay kid, you are always having to translate. You are always having… — Peter Paige Copy Share Image
In many cases, it's a choice. There are many, many human beings through history - millions and millions and millions - who… — Bill Kristol Copy Share Image
At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two… It is ignorance, our ignorance of one… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
I just want to normalize things. I really don't think too often going through life as a gay man. I just hope… — Carl Nassib Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the crunch, coming out is the greatest of all confessions. Nothing is more difficult to acknowledge. When we… — Witi Ihimaera Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate we live in a society where "gay" is an insult. To some of these boys, who are from really red… — David Farrier Copy Share Image
“Homosexual,' generally used in scientific works is of course a bastard word. 'Homogenic' has been suggested, as being from two roots, both… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“I went downstairs to Dad’s encyclopedia and looked up HOMOSEXUALITY, but that didn’t tell me much about any of the things I… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I’m not unsympathetic. But do you like me? Because this being gay business doesn’t mean you can just throw yourself at any… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“I'm as liberal as the next person', complained Alsana, once they were alone. 'But why do they always have to be laughing… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“It was like school spirit back in high school. He didn’t have it then, and he didn’t have it now. To him,… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“When I joined the military it was illegal to be homosexual, then it became optional, and now it's legal. I'm getting out… — USMC Sgt. Harry Berres Copy Share Image
In the early stages of being out, you meet all these people from all kinds of backgrounds, and the one thing you… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film... Heterosexuality to me is… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
Coming out with your sexuality is something that broadly affects a lot of different people. We just want people to realize it… — Terry Dubrow Copy Share Image
For a while I was a completely unknown artist with no fan base and no draw in the clubs. The only people… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I knew I was gay at 18, but to come out then would have meant I would not have achieved what I… — Gareth Thomas Copy Share Image
On the level of investigative results, John Boswell's methodology has led to the discovery that what has been called the repression of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Homosexuals have always been a part of our society and they should be getting the same treatment as anybody else. They have… — Zareen Khan Copy Share Image
“Do not let the focus on bakers and florists obscure this point: It is currently legal in most states to fire people… — John Corvino Copy Share Image
To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
When I was young, they thought I was from outer space. I was the only gay person they probably knew, and they… — Gilbert Baker Copy Share Image
I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to… — Rachel Shelley Copy Share Image
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