Homosexuality Quotes - Page 15

• According to DC's HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS... The DC City Council, perhaps on the theory that serving up another glass of wine is the way to help a drunk, is scheduled to vote on December 1 to legalize same sex marriage in America's capital city.

  Star Parker

  Sex, Wine, Cities

  Star Parker (2010). “Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It”, p.210, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Since the point of erotica is to offer the consumer sexual experiences without having to compromise with the demands of the other sex, it is a window into each sex's unalloyed desires. Pornography for men is visual, anatomical, impulsive, floridly promiscuous and devoid of context and character. Erotica for women is far more likely to be verbal, psychological, reflective, serially monogamous and rich in context and character. Men fantasise about copulating with bodies; women fantasise about making love to people.

  Steven Pinker

  Sex, Character, Men

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• The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sex, Endure, Relation

  "Sixteen self sketches". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1949.

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• If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Men, Rely Upon

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• We are left with the feeling that the church has overdone it, no matter how you cut it, and that homosexuals have certainly suffered more wrong than they have committed, and that there must be flaws in whatever theology of nature or hierarchy of sins has made homosexuality be viewed as the nadir of depravity... This feeling increases when one becomes acquainted with responsible, Christian, homosexual people.

  Paul King Jewett

  Christian, Cutting, Gay

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• You are not responsible for what your friends do, but you will be judged by the company you keep.

  Leonard A Cole

  Company You Keep, Sexuality, Responsible

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• Methodologically speaking, the rejection by [John] Boswell of the categorical opposition between homosexual and heterosexual, which plays such a significant role in the way our culture conceives of homosexuality, represents an advance not only in scholarship but in cultural criticism as well.

  Michel Foucault

  Play, Rejection, Criticism

  Source: www.questia.com

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• Roughly 7 to 8 percent of men in Germany are homosexual. If that is how things remain, our nation will fall to pieces because of that plague. Those who practice homosexuality deprive Germany of the children they owe her.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Children, Fall, Men

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• The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.

  Quentin Crisp

  Children, Greek, Monsters

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 3, 1968.

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• If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God.

  Mark Neumann

  Ifs

  "Baldwin announces bid for U.S. Senate" by Chris Johnson, www.washingtonblade.com. September 6, 2011.

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• For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.

  Florence King

  Men, America, Want

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• I don't consider my homosexuality a political thing. I consider it a sexual and spiritual thing. I only started going to political rallies to meet women.

  K. D. Lang

  Spiritual, Political, Sexuality

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• Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Artistic, Masculinity, Rate

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.23, Northwestern University Press

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• The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.

  Derek Jarman

  Queens, Cities, Good Man

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal marriage rights.

  Barack Obama

  Rights, Moral, States

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In terms of homosexuality, not everyone is prepared for a daily struggle against nature. In some ways, people who challenge and subvert their biologically-determined body are struggling against nature. It's a mysterious combination of nature and nurture that determines a person's gender, and for whatever reason some people are driven to challenge their biological "destiny". It's a difficult struggle, and I believe it takes a lot of courage.

  Bruce LaBruce

  Believe, Struggle, Destiny

  Interview with Jane Harris, logger.believermag.com. May 29, 2014.

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• I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils of homosexuality in order to attract bigger flocks to their churches and more votes and power to their corrupt councils. LGBT people seem to be being scapegoated more and more just as at the same time in more enlightened countries more and more freedom to express themselves, marry, be given official intersex status and so on is offered.

  Stephen Fry

  Country, Lying, Order

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• The love that previously dared not speak its name has now grown hoarse from screaming it.

  Robert Brustein

  Names, Speak

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• The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.

  Colm Toibin

  Book, Gay, Men

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• I suspected my homosexuality, but I'd never acted out on it because I was afraid of sex. It's awful to be afraid of sex.

  Elton John

  Sex, Awful

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2014.

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• There are more scriptural reasons to oppose homophobia than to oppose homosexuality.

  John B. Cobb

  Reason, Homophobia

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• A person's sexuality is so much more than one word "gay." No one refers to anyone as just "hetero" because that doesn't say anything. Sexual identity is broader than a label.

  Gus Van Sant

  Gay, Say Anything, Identity

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• All right. If you insist. I do not sleep with girls. No, no, no, let me be absolutely accurate. I've gone through the motions of sleeping with girls exactly three times, all of them disastrous. The word for my sex life now is nil. Or as you Americans would say, "plenty of nuttin'.

  Jay Presson Allen

  Girl, Sex, Sleep

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• In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling.

  William S. Burroughs

  Sex, Ideas, Feelings

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• I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive--it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be mutual.

  W. H. Auden

  Party, Practice, Passive

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