There's some homophobia within black community, but there's some strong homophobia throughout the whole of American society as well, particularly throughout the… — Otis Moss III Copy Share Image
“Individual members of certain churches in black communities should protest when worship services become a platform for teaching anti-gay sentiments. Often individuals… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Homophobia and the closet are allies. Like an unhealthy co-dependent relationship they need each other to survive. One plays the victim living… — Anthony Venn-Brown Copy Share Image
No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Organized religion is the school of hate, and never more exultant in its righteous indignation than when it talks about gay and… — Paul Monette Copy Share Image
A lot of institutions and other sports are quite liberal and forward thinking but, for some strange reason, football has never adequately… — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
Actually I'm more culturally Muslim than religiously but being Muslim is an important part of my identity. As Muslim, I feel it's… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
“Strangely, the subsequent AIDS works that have become iconic in our culture rarely mention the movement, or the engaged community of lovers,… — Sarah Schulman 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
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
Women have been oppressed for so long in any industry, it just takes time for a shift to happen to create more… — Maya Jane Coles Copy Share Image
I feel that homophobia runs rampant in the music industry, and that artists are allowed to speak openly in a hateful way,… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I talked a lot early on in my career about intersectionality and how racism and classism and sexism and homophobia and capitalism… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable. — Eric Andre Copy Share Image
“Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“['non-white' gay men] are run over at the intersection of racism and homophobia” — Eric C. Wat Copy Share Image
“In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Acceptance does not mean accepting those who disregard humans on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia. — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
“If any religion turns against love of equal partners, there's something flawed with the religion, not the love.” — Akilnathan Logeswaran Copy Share Image
We don’t come out of the womb filled with prejudice, racism, and homophobia. Kids are taught to hate, so we have to… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
There's a false concept that being gay and out in Hollywood will hurt your career. It's intrinsic homophobia. It's as if being… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
No matter how quietly homophobia is whispered, it doesn't make it any less loud. You can't whisper hate, — Leisha Hailey Copy Share Image
I've been standing with and united with the gay community. I know so many gay men and women that homophobia is such… — Lynda Carter Copy Share Image
Because homophobia is still largely driven by the church, it's legitimised. It's also tied to sexism, because those two are never far… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Everyone that's ever seen 'Pose' who isn't trans or doesn't have any connection to the LGBTQ community has been given the opportunity… — Indya Moore Copy Share Image
Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and… — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image