Queer Quotes

"My mother sent me to a psychiatrist when I was 15 because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There really wasn't anything latent about it." -Amanda Bearse, actress

"Just because something happens in nature doesn't make it natural." -Samantha Bee, The Daily Show

"We've got to show them we're worse than queer." -Bikini Kill

"Being lesbian or gay today is by definition political." -Mark Blasius, Sexuality and the Emergence of a New Ethic

"Wouldn't it be great if you could only contract AIDS from giving money to television preachers?" -Elayne Boosler

"I think Gay people are like blondes, there're fewer of them, but they have more fun." -Rita Mae Brown

"Jesus preached and talked against a whole gamut of sins. He never mentioned homosexuality at all." -Jimmy Carter

"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, lesbian comedian

"Sometimes I wish I were a lesbian... Did I say that out loud?" -Chandler, Friends

"The soul has no gender." -Queen Christina of Sweden

"I think it's interesting that when you play a lesbian, people ask you if you're a lesbian, but if you play a serial killer, nobody asks if you're a serial killer." -Nora Dunn, actress

"I'm sort of a gay success story, a very inspirational one. What happened to me is exactly the opposite of what closeted people fear: They think they'll lose everything if they come out. This did not happen to me at all. In fact, everything came back tenfold." -Melissa Etheridge

"Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of." -Sigmund Freud, in a letter to an American mother

"It is better to be hated for what one is than to be loved for what one isn't." -Andre Gide

"I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?" -Elton John

"Acting gay? How can one act gay? We are gay." -Cable King

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image, when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." -Anne Lamott

"Respecting each other's sexuality is about the coolest thing I can think of, except for maybe legalizing hemp and not wearing fur." -Courtney Love

"It's not closeted gays you have to change; it's society — society made closets necessary." -Kevin Lydalt

"Heterosexism — the assumption that everyone is heterosexual — is what lesbians face when we are ignored, when we can find little or no reflection of ourselves in popular culture, no mention of ourselves when hot national political issues like health are discussed, when we are seldom included in the daily life of our culture, our 'civilization'. It isn't only that my lover can't be covered by my health insurance policy from my place of employment, but that Hallmark doesn't publish a card that celebrates our anniversary or the anniversaries of our friends." -Judith McDaniel

"You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are." -Merle Miller

"It may be an academically interesting puzzle as to why we are gay...but it is much more interesting and important to find out why people are homophobic." -Prof. Peter Nardi, GLAAD/LA

"One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness." -Towards a Quaker View of Sex, 1964

"Since the most important element of any concept is that it's orginating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for homosexuality is a problematic one because it maintains our existance as a category of deviance. I mean, no one is running around trying to figure out why some people like sports, for instance." -Sarah Schulman, My American History

"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye: the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract." -Ken Siman, The Beauty Trip

"Many people cling to the idea that homosexuality is a choice, because otherwise the bible would seem illogical. Why would God decree as immoral something that was out of one's control? One couldn't imagine a biblical passage suggesting people are immoral because they are tall or blonde or brown-skinned." -Robert L. Steinbeck

"I think the only reason they don't want gays in the military is that they're afraid of a bunch of gay guys with M-16's going, 'Who'd you call a faggot?'" -Jon Stewart

"I don't mind straight people, as long as they act gay in public." -a t-shirt

"Only now, especially after the story of my marriage, have I finally begun to understand that there is nothing more fruitless than not wanting to be that which I am by nature." -Tchaikovsky, gay composer

"If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work. 'Hello, can't work today, still queer.'" -Robin Tyler

"It is not the homosexual who is perverse, but the society in which he lives." -Rosa Von Praunheim

"What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no. It's curved like a road through mountains." -Tennessee Williams

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." -Frank Zappa

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