Gay Quotes by Camille Paglia

14 Gay quotes by Camille Paglia

Camile Paglia’s cultural criticism often challenges conventional narratives, and this set of 14 statements on gay topics reflects her distinctive analytical lens. It offers a compact look at her nuanced, sometimes contrarian, perspective.

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Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing. ?

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When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

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I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I…

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Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in…

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When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians…

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Gay men may seek sex without emotion; lesbians often end up in emotion without sex.

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No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given…

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Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the…

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In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as…

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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition…

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I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that…

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I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like…

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Homosexuality is not 'normal' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And…

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I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right…

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I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

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Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign.

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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It…

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I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's…

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My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.

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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

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Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

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In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by…

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I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s…

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The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and…

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Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of…

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Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that…

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition.…

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