“DON'T YOU DARE ASSUME I'M STRAIGHT!”
“The goal is not to tell for
the sake of telling, but not to hide.
The more people you can find
and be honest with, the better you'll feel.”
- Barney Frank, U.S. congressman
“If homosexuality is a disease,
lets all call in queer to work
'Hello. Can't work today, still
queer'.”
- Robin Tyler
“Anyone can be gay - it's no
accomplishment - but only I can be me.”
- Ned Rorem
“I'm gay, and as an elected city
councilman I'm cost-effective.
If I ever run for president,
I can be my own first lady.”
- Tom Ammiano (San Francisco
City Councilman)
“The police always underestimate
how many gays are marching.
If a cop had a menage a trois,
he would say that there
were only two people there.”
- Judy Carter
“I don't know if one ever fully
gets used to or accepts their sexuality.
Hets smugly think they do, but
only because they haven't
ever thought to question it
- but for queers,
there always is a time where
one deals with what they are.”
- Brad Shapcott
“Why aren't there any gay-nerd-bear-bars,
anyway?
Ones where gay programmers network
their computers through
gloryholes and exchange filthy
E-mail?
Now there's a market!”
- Anthony Berno
“If you removed all of the homosexuals
and homosexual influences
from what's generally regarded
as American culture,
you would be pretty much left
with Let's Make a Deal.”
- Fran Lebowitz
“I was impatient with people.
'Accept me now, or see you later!'.
I realize now that if it took
me years to understand that I was gay,
maybe I should give others time
to adapt. Not everyone will be
instantly overjoyed with the
news and that's OK.”
- Ellen DeGeneres
“Coming out for gays and lesbians isn't an event ~ It's a process.”
“Queer by Nature, Proud by Choice”
“It is not the homosexual who
is perverse,
but the society in which he
lives.”
- Rosa Von Praunheim
“Let's get one thing straight - I'm not!”
“The Bible contains six admonishments
to homosexuals and
three hundred sixty-two admonishments
to heterosexuals.
That doesn't mean that God doesn't
love heterosexuals.
It's just that they need more
supervision.”
- Lynne Lavner
“I don't mind straight people, as long as they act gay in public.”
“The next time someone asks you,
'Hey, howdja get to be a homosexual
anyway?' tell them,
'Homosexuals are chosen first
on talent, then interview,
then the swimsuit and evening
gown competition
pretty much gets rid of the
rest of them.'”
- KarenWilliams
“You're neither unnatural, nor
abominable, nor mad;
you're as much a part of what
people call nature as anyone else;
only you're unexplained as yet
--
you've not got your niche in
creation.”
- Radclyffe Hall in The Well
of Loneliness, 1928
“Why can't they have gay people
in the army?
Personally, I think they are
just afraid of a thousand guys
with M16s going, 'Whod' you
call a faggot?”
- John Stewart
“Jesus preached and talked against
a whole gamut of sins.
He never mentioned homosexuality
at all.”
- Jimmy Carter
“Do you think homosexuals are
revolting?
You bet your sweet ass we are!”
-Gay Liberation Front in New
York
“Just where is the 'homosexual
agenda'?
And why have people like Pat
Robertson and Bob Dole
seen it before any of us?”
- Natasha
“Jesus was never married, ran
around with twelve guys,
and was betrayed by a kiss from
another guy.”
- Rev. Troy Perry
“The radical right is so homophobic
that they're blaming
global warming on the AIDS quilt!.”
- Dennis Miller
“Now that it is increasingly
clear that HIV can
be transmitted to heterosexuals...the
self-righteous
must find another reason for
gay bashing.”
- Bishop Desmond Tutu
“Most of our parents are straight.
Heteros who hate us should stop
having us!”
- Lynda Montgomery
“"It's a lot easier being black
than gay.
At least if you're black you
don't have to tell your parents.”
- Judy Carter
“Pronouns make it hard to keep
our sexual orientation
a secret when our co-workers
ask us about our weekend.
'I had a great time with ....THEM.'
Great!
Now they don't think you're
queer - just a big slut!”
- Judy Carter
“As long as society is anti-gay,
then it will seem like being
gay is anti-social.”
- Joseph Francis
“My mother took me to a psychiatrist
when I was 15
because she thought I was a
latent homosexual.
There was nothing latent about
it.”
- Amanda Bearse
“Homosexuals go through torturous
soul-searching,
deciding whether they should
come out.
Heterosexuals get announcements
printed...”
- Beverly Smith
