I am old school, I joined the gay liberation movement in…

My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the…

— Tom Brokaw

I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln…

— David Herbert Donald

I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school, I'm from…

— Cleve Jones

“Mass movements are always so unhip. That’s what was great about punk. It was an antimovement, because there was knowledge there from the very…

— Legs McNeil

The terrifying message of gay liberation is that men are capable of loving their brothers. It should be sweet news to every womanin the…

— Jane Rule

By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for…

— Michael Stipe

Gays are not liberated yet. Their struggle is just beginning in an American culture that is still essentially fearful about homosexuality. But some mothers…

— Liz Smith

We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is a real…

— Huey Newton

“Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books – it was the best reason for…

— Christopher Bram

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

— Bette Davis

Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible,…

— Gloria Steinem

The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness…

— Edmund White

Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models.…

— Edmund White

So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits,…

— Gerald Scarfe

My father was furious with me, absolutely furious. I'm sure he wouldn't have been so mad if I'd have volunteered to join the army.…

— Mick Jagger