Gay Quotes - Page 28

• If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the proper hormone balance, or the conducive endocrine environment, for gay generation, I would be less chilled by the breezes of all this technological confidence.

  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

  Balance, Would Be, Generations

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• There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Years, Substance, Information

  "“A Historic Moment”: California Couple on Decades-Long Legal Struggle for Marriage Equality". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 27, 2013.

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• This is a word that is not a scientific term. This is a rhetorical tool of psychological manipulation... Because everyone knows if you dare to say homosexuality is wrong...you are a homophobe, which means you have a mental illness. That's what's built into this terminology.

  Scott Lively

  Mean, Tools, Manipulation

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• What does the gay movement mean when it says tolerance?...It means absolutely unconditionally accepting it as perfectly normal, healthy, natural and something that should be integrated into every part of society.

  Scott Lively

  Mean, Perfectly Normal, Healthy

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• Most of the people...they say gays are born that way and it has been...proven...That is a lie. That's what's called a lie. It is not true. There is no definitive scientific study that has ever proved that homosexuality is innate

  Scott Lively

  Lying, People, Way

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• If homosexuality is not caused by genetic factors...then that means it can be acquired... And if it can be acquired, shouldn't we be doing everything in our power to protect people from acquiring it? Shouldn't we lean to the side of protecting the children instead of affirming a scientific hypothesis that has no actual truthful foundation?

  Scott Lively

  Children, Mean, People

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• If someone is identifying themselves based on their orientation toward a person of the same gender, then that seems to me to be a self-evident disorder.

  Scott Lively

  Self, Gender, Disorder

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• If you catch them at 12 years old, which they are working very aggressively to do and you tell those children that if you have an attraction towards someone of the same gender, that means you're gay and because you're gay you need to come with us.

  Scott Lively

  Children, Mean, Years

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• There's a whole network of people ready to simply inculcate you and enfold you into their world and they want more and more people in their world because they are in a campaign to change everything

  Scott Lively

  People, Campaigns, World

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• My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Marriage, Sex, Example

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• Some of this is unavailable to the male-female union: there is more likely to be greater understanding of the need for extramarital outlets between two men than between a man and a woman; and again, the lack of children gives gay couples greater freedom. Their failures entail fewer consequences for others. But something of the gay's relationship's necessary honesty, its flexibility, and its equality could undoubtedly help strengthen and inform many heterosexual bonds.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Honesty, Couple, Children

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• The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe her at our pleasure.

  Heinrich Hertz

  Pleasure, Figures, Rigour

  "Nature", Vol. 51, Nature Publishing Group, letter by Ludwig Boltzmann, 1895.

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• Part of me didn't know if Australia wanted its champion to be gay.

  Ian Thorpe

  Australia, Champion, Wanted

  "Ian Thorpe: I'm finally comfortable saying I'm a gay man" by Amanda Meade, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2014.

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• I think that we ought to be a tolerant nation. I think we ought to be tolerant people. But we shouldn't set up special categories for anybody. And I'm for the rights of everybody, including gays, but not any special rights.

  Fred Thompson

  Thinking, Rights, People

  "Former Sen. Fred Thompson on 'FOX News Sunday'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 11, 2007.

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• My objection is not that it's pro-gay but that it appears to be anti-marriage.

  Michael Medved

  Pro Gay, Objections

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• Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of that time, and never having even talked about it in all those years, I just thought, why the hell shouldn't they serve? They're American citizens. As long as they're not doing things that are harmful to anyone else... So I came out for it.

  Barry Goldwater

  Military, Years, Long

  "Barry Goldwater's Left Turn". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.washingtonpost.com. July 28, 1994.

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• The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of people’s private lives. Government governs best when it governs least – and stays out of the impossible task of legislating morality. But legislating someone’s version of morality is exactly what we do by perpetuating discrimination against gays.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, People, Tasks

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• Barack and I see a future... where no one, no one is forced to live in the shadows of intolerance.

  Joe Biden

  Gay Rights, Shadow, Intolerance

  Joe Biden's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 6, 2012.

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• Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans.

  Ken Mehlman

  Rights, Support, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• I’m searching for some exit poll data from California. I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.

  Dan Savage

  Data, California, Black

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• By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.

  Scott Fujita

  Country, Past, Rights

  "“Why I Support the National Equality March”: NFL’s Scott Fujita Speaks Out for Gay Rights". Interview with Dave Zirin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The Bible is to gays what Mein Kampf is to Jews.

  Peter Tatchell

  Mein Kampf, Jew

  Peter Tatchell's lecture at St. Botolph's Aldgate in London, March 21, 2000.

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• Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.

  Georges Seurat

  Art, Keys, Light

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• I’m not saying this is an absolute but in a way, if you’re not having kids – who gives a damn? Love who you want. Isn’t that what we say? Gay marriage – love who you want? If it’s your brother or sister it’s super-weird, but if you look at it, you’re not hurting anybody except every single person who freaks out because you’re in love with one another.

  Nick Cassavetes

  Hurt, Brother, Kids

  "At Toronto Film Fest, Nick Cassavetes on Incest: ‘Who Gives a Damn? Love Who You Want’" by Sharon Waxman, www.thewrap.com. September 10, 2012.

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• Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bird, Grew, Seems

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.327

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