Homosexuality Quotes - Page 16

• I've never made a secret of my homosexuality.

  Jens Spahn

  Secret, Made

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• On the level of investigative results, John Boswell's methodology has led to the discovery that what has been called the repression of homosexuality does not date back to Christianity properly speaking, but developed within the Christian era at a much later date. In this type of analysis it is important to be aware of the way in which people conceived of their own sexuality.

  Michel Foucault

  Christian, Discovery, People

  Source: www.questia.com

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• Homosexuality has been around since humanity began and different societies at different times have reacted in a different manner.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Humanity, Different, Has Beens

  Source: www.flavourmag.co.uk

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• Nobody in the scientific or medical world thinks that homosexuality is something that people choose. It's something we are. Now, I didn't choose to be heterosexual. I just woke up when I was about twelve years old and girls didn't look obnoxious to me any longer, but I didn't make a choice about the matter. I just responded to my own hormones.

  John Shelby Spong

  Girl, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of teaching people being ashamed of their sexuality.

  Hozier

  Teaching, People, Church

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well.

  Julia Child

  Long, Sexuality, Wells

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• Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.

  Quentin Crisp

  Faces, Becoming, Acceptable

  "How to Become a Virgin". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 6, 1981.

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• Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Hands, Tolerance

  Fireflies (1928)

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• If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

  Antonin Scalia

  Feelings, Moral, Murder

  "Antonin Scalia's 10 most memorable lines" By Gregory Krieg, www.cnn.com. February 13, 2016.

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• Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Wedding, Bird

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 5, 1595.

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• I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes.

  Hollis Stacy

  Daughter, Mother, Attitude

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• The first question we usually ask new parents is : “Is it a boy or a girl ?”. There is a great answer to that one going around : “We don’t know ; it hasn’t told us yet.” Personally, I think no question containing “either/or” deserves a serious answer, and that includes the question of gender.

  Kate Bornstein

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.56, Routledge

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• I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Valentines Day, Rivers

  Another Time (1940) "As I Walked Out One Evening"

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• I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

  Jimmy Carter

  Anniversary, Patriotic, Swimming

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• Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

  Euripides

  Love, Men, Heaven

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• You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.

  Stephen Fry

  Fall, Writing, Wish

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• When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Mother, Children, Attitude

  "The World According to Vice". Interview with Bruce Labruce, November 4, 2010.

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• If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

  Jon Meacham

  Religious, Gay, Rights

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• Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Anniversary, Marriage, Husband

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• He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Death, Song

  "Funeral Blues" l. 9 (1936)

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• I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Ambition, Humor

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Marriage, Gay, Lgbt Pride

  "Obama and Gay Marriage: Runaway Bride?". www.newyorker.com. June 30, 2011.

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• [about Planned Parenthood] It is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism - everything that the Bible condemns.

  Pat Robertson

  Stupid, Teaching, Kids

  "The 700 Club". TV Series, www.imdb.com. April 9, 1991.

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• Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Heart, House, Mind

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