Andrew Solomon Quotes About Being Gay

Quotes about: Being Gay

• Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. The Mormon Church is especially focused on family, and I'd have hoped, therefore, that the Mormon Church would especially have celebrated how all of these people who might have been lonely and suicidal and childless are now able to lead this other life. I would have thought it would be a cause for immense celebration. Instead it has been, obviously, a cause of great concern to the Church and its leadership.

  Andrew Solomon

  Lonely, Suicidal, Gay

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• Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gay, People, These Days

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• Being gay is immutable.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gay, Being Gay

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• Being gay is immutable. Maybe someday we'll figure out more of the science and it will be changeable, but we have no leads so far.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gay, Someday, Figures

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• What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gay, Happy Life, Perception

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