In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.
Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find
that without changing their address they eventually live in
the metropolis.
Quentin Crisp
The Naked Civil Servant, 1978.
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality:
the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man;
either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or
obligation.
Simone de Beauvoir
Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Isn't it a violation of the Georgia sodomy law for the Supreme
Court to have its head up its ass?
Letter to Playboy magazine
February 1987.
It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality.
It's like disapproving of rain.
Francis Maude
It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you
don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.
Daphne Fielding
The Duchess of Jermyn Street.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is
not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes
you happy.
Lucille Ball
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope
in which to get themselves filed.
Clifton Fadiman
It's hard enough to be taken seriously in the struggle for
gay rights without having a bunch of straight girls running
around kissing each other to get the attention of boys and
videocameras.
M. Robin D'Antan
I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never
wondered whether it was acceptable or not. Anyway, who really
cares whether I'm gay or straight?
George Michael
To Britain's Big Issue magazine.
Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich were shaking hands congratulating
themselves on the introduction of an antigay bill in Congress.
If it passes, they won't be able to shake hands, because it
will then be illegal for a prick to touch an asshole.
Judy Carte
Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are
not for people.
Martina Navratilova
Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive
response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the
trouble.
Nora Ephron
Heartburn, 1983.
Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and
a mockery.
Hart Crane
Let's get one thing straight, I'm not.
Bumper sticker
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do
as of doing the things they do not want to do.
Eric Hoffer
Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong.
Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how
they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it
down - the legacy stops here.
Melissa Etheridge
'Silent Legacy,' Yes I Am, 1993.
Mr. Garrison: Hey, guess what everybody? I'm gay!
Principal Victoria: Mr. Garrison?
Mr. Mackey: What?
Mr. Garrison: I'm as gay as a gymnast on shore leave!
Principal Victoria: You admit it? You admit it!!!
Mr. Mackey: Oh, that's great, Mr. Garrison. You've finally
come to terms with yourself!
Mr. Garrison: Yeah, it feels really good!
Principal Victoria: Well, congratulations!
Mr. Mackey: Yeah, congratulations!
Mr. Garrison: You know, I feel like I can start anew. If it's
not alright with you, I'd like to go back to teaching the
third grade.
Principal Victoria: Oh. I'm sorry, we don't hire gay people.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
South Park.
My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind
of hard for him to come out of the closet.
Bill Kelly
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