American people Quote by Kevin Sessums

The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played…

— Larry Kramer

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents…

— Kevin Sessums

Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry [Kramer] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it's on the surface or not,…

— Kevin Sessums

I think about 'Will & Grace,' and I think about 'Modern Family,' and the way that being gay has become sort of middle America...…

— Jonathan Groff

“The most important reason I am concentrating on Winthrop and his shipmates in the 1630s is that the country I live in is haunted…

— Sarah Vowell

“The generations of lives, experiences, and voices of marginalized and silenced Americans offer an array of diverse interpretations of U.S. history that have largely…

— Clarence Lusane

The American people understand that what makes the nation great is not people's bloodlines or how long ago their ancestors arrived here, but their…

— Ted Lieu

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

— Nicholas Kristof

All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“some British settlers of colonial America carried across the sea Puritan, biblical, scientific, and Aristotelian rationalizations of slavery and human hierarchy.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best…

— Charles Dickens

History moves fast. It's hard to believe that gay Americans achieved full constitutional personhood just five years after corporations did!

— Stephen Colbert