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.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title—whether it’s ‘black actor,’ a ‘gay actor’ or ‘anything actor,’ Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that’s not where...

The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as that people of all races and creeds have equal rights,...

Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying Little League-coaching nation-serving respectably married citizens. So why not welcome them in Why...

[P]eople only make decisions based on what they know. You can have everyone in the country vote freely and democratically and still come up with the wrong answer – if the information they base that...

I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms,...

I believe a Christian muffler shop owner should have the same right to refuse service to a gay couple, as a gay lifeguard has to refuse service to a drowning Christian.

I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I’m obsessed with horror...

[A] couple I had known – who were old friends – asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I wanted to write a near future book about AIDS concentration...

If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I...

You have to remember, rights don’t come in groups we shouldn’t have ‘gay rights’; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn’t have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not...

As a young gay African, I have been conditioned from an early age to consider my sexuality a dangerous deviation from my true heritage as a Somali by close kin and friends. As a young...

You can argue that it’s a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It’s the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac...

If Christians are all loving and full of God’s grace (like some of us really are), do they truly love their neighbor? Would they catch a grenade for one of us (like some of us...

At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won’t be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood...

Jerry Falwell said that the reason that September 11th happened, the reason that God allowed it to happen, was because of certain people in our country. People like, and I’m quoting, ‘the pagans,’ which is...

Just because I like to suck cock doesn’t make me any less American than Jesse Helms.

We, gays, can get married in Canada. We let heterosexuals too, but that was a huge thing, we had to have a referendum and a vote, it’s crazy! But then we were like, if they...

A conversation in which the two parties have different beliefs should never begin with the intention of converting the other party to your own beliefs. Every worthwhile conversation’s goal should be to understand the other...

If a couple of gay guys want to throw the gayest, most fabulous wedding of all time, the only way it should offend you is if you weren’t invited.

You know, the guys there were so beautiful—they’ve lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.

You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to be you so be you proudly.

… gay marriage rights coming and going, always being an issue for the voting public when it should be an individual‘s private choice.

All our hope rests upon the possibility of a change of the laws which concern it, so that only rape or the comission of public offence, when this can be proved at the same time,...

Let’s make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake–you know, to send the right message to kids.

Jesus didn’t fight against what was wrong. But he fought for what was right.

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn’t happen.

Remember, the change you want to see in the world, and in your school, begins with you.

The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming–to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you’re not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted...

If homosexuality is a disease, let’s all call in queer to work:’Hello. Can’t work today. Still queer.

[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

What society judged was not the severity of the disease but the social acceptability of the individuals affected with it…

When a man’s running, he seldom looks back.

Lesbians are women who like to have sex with other women,” which I didn’t think was all that weird.

It takes no compromise to give people their rights…it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

general population” that so concerned the Secretary.

Not all gays respond to the same stuff. Would Alexander the Great have loved Auntie Mame?

I’m a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many...

There is no indication that any church official suggested or supported the emperor’s action against gay people. On the contrary, the only persons known by name to have been punished for homosexual acts were prominent...

The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating...