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*I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral, and that we should not condone immoral acts.
**Gen. [[Peter Pace]], Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman [http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/13/gays.military/index.html?eref=rss_topstories]

*The promotion of homosexuality would lead to the eventual destruction of the human race.
**[[Lech Kaczynski]], Polish president [http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/view.php?id=3768]

* "Well, maybe I'm a latent homosexual." He considered that for a moment. "Or maybe I'm a latent heterosexual. Anyway I'm pretty latent."
** [[Margaret Atwood]], ''The Edible Woman'', ISBN 0385491069.

* At this mention of the one category of man who had never shown any interest in her, Ainsley's large blue eyes filled with tears.
** [[Margaret Atwood]], ''The Edible Woman'', ISBN 0385491069.

* "He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain."
** [[Alice Walker]], ''Possessing the Secret of Joy''

* Oh! I want to put my arms arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it and think she does love me or I wouldn't be wearing it!
** [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], in a letter to Lorena Hickok, March 7, 1933

* "Concerning the Pope's claim that homosexuality is 'unnatural'. Perhaps the Pope is suggesting that it lies beyond the scope of 'normal' human behavior. If so, this has uncomfortable implications for an association of old men who wear dresses, hear voices and practice ritual cannibalism. Self-enforced [[celibacy]] is all but unknown among other animal species. If any sexual behavior is out of tune with the natural world, it is surely that of the [[priesthood]]."
** George Monbiot, ''The Guardian'', July 13, 2000

* "There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals."
** [[Michel Foucault]], quoted in Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) (2001). ''Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day''. New York: Routledge. ISBN 041522974X.

* "I'm queer, I'm gay, I'm homosexual, I'm a poof, poofter, ponce, I'm a bumboy, baddy boy, backside artist, bugger, I'm Bent. I am that arse bandit, I lift those shirts. I'm a faggot arse, fudge-packing, shit-stabbing uphill gardener, I dine at the downstairs restaurant, I dance at the other end of the ballroom, I'm Moses in the parting of the red cheeks. I fuck and I'm fucked, I suck and I'm sucked, I rim them and wank them and every single man's had the fucking time of his life. And I'm NOT a pervert."
** Aidan Gillen as Stuart Allen Jones in [[Queer as Folk]] 2 (UK Series), written by Russell T. Davies

* "I don't mind straight people as long as they act gay in public."
** T-shirt worn by [[Dennis Rodman]] of the Chicago Bulls during a network-TV interview

* "The homosexual never thinks of himself when someone is branded in his presence with the name ''homosexual''. ...His sexual tastes will doubtless lead him to enter into relationships with this suspect category, but he would like to make use of them without being likened to them. Here, too, the ban that is cast on certain men by society has destroyed all possibility of reciprocity among them. Shame isolates."
** [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], quoted in Who's Who, from Sartre's ''Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr'' (New York, 1963)

* "I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating."
** [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], quoted in Who's Who, from Sartre's ''Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr'' (New York, 1963)

* "I said to my dad, who's a Methodist minister, 'you know...one day...a niece or a nephew, sooner or later we're going to get a gay or a lesbian,' so he might as well get used to it!"
** [[Tori Amos]], spoken on VH-1 Storytellers before performing her song "Raspberry Swirl" (New York, 1999)

* "I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality ... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment."
** Letter from [[Sigmund Freud]] to [[Wilhelm Fliess]] (25 March 1898)

* "And now, the main thing! As far as I can see, my next work will be called "Human Bisexuality." It will go to the root of the problem and say the last word it may be granted to say -- the last and the most profound."
** Letter from [[Sigmund Freud]] to [[Wilhelm Fliess]] (7 August 1901)

* "We come out of our mothers naked; everything else is just drag!"
** [[RuPaul]] in her book "Letting it All Hang Out"

* "If it wasn't for gay men, I wouldn't talk to men at all."
** [[Margaret Cho]] in her stage show "I'm the One That I Want". (Extensive exclusion of Ms. Cho's opinions on homosexuality at her wiki-link.)

* "Fag hags are the back-bone of the gay community. We were there when you came out to your mom. We went to your prom."
** [[Margaret Cho]] in her stage show "I'm the One That i Want".

* "A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa."
** [[Sigmund Freud]], ''Analysis Terminable and Interminable''

* "Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality."
** [[Kate Millett]], ''Flying''

* "It is my opinion that while the word bisexual may have its uses as an adjective, ... it is not only useless but mendacious when used as a noun."
** [[John Malone]], ''Straight Women/Gay Men''

* "The reason no one has yet been able to come up with a good word to describe the homosexualist (sometimes known as gay, fag, queer, etc.) is because he does not exist. The human race is divided into male and female. Many human beings enjoy the sexual relations with their own sex, many don't; many respond to both. The plurality is the fact of our nature and not worth fretting about."
** [[Gore Vidal]]

* "The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes."
** [[Margaret Mead]], ''Redbook'' (1975)

* "Insistence on having a sexual orientation in sex is about defending the status quo, maintaining sex differences and the sexual hierarchy; whereas resistance to sexual orientation, regimentation is more about where we need to be going."
** [[John Stoltenberg]] (1989)

* "None of the Gospel writers, nor the missionary Paul, nor the formulators of the Tradition, possess the psychological, sociological, and sexological knowledge which now inform our theological reflections about human sexuality. They knew nothing of sexual orientation or of the natural heterosexual-bisexual-homosexual continuum that exists in human life. They did not postulate that persons engaging in same-gender sex acts could have been expressing ''their natural sexuality''. They ''presumed'' that persons engaged in same-gender acts were heterosexual, ''presumed'' only one purpose for for sexuality (procreation) and ''presumed'' that anyone engaged in same-gender sex acts was consciously choosing perversion of what was assumed to be natural sexuality (i.e., heterosexuality). We now know that same-gender sex acts have been observed in a multitude of species from sea gulls to porcupines... We know that same-gender oriented persons can experience deep love with one another and can nurture meaningful, long-lasting relationships."
** William R. Johnson, ''Positively Gay: New Approaches to Gay and Lesbian Life'', ed. [[Betty Berzon]], 1992

* "Nobody knows what "causes" homosexuality any more than they know what "causes" heterosexuality. (Of course, there is far less interest in what causes the latter.) Overtly, the old psychoanalytic bugaboos are dead; there is no evidence, according to the Kinsey Institute, that male homosexuality is caused by dominant mothers and/or weak fathers, or that female homosexuality is caused by girls' having exclusively male role models. Furthermore, children who are raised by gay and lesbian couples are no more likely to be homosexual than children of heterosexual couples. Nor do people become adult homosexuals because they were seduced by older people or went to same-sex boarding schools...<br> Though the causes of sexual orientation are unknown and the definitions fluid, the likelihood of converting a homosexual to a heterosexual orientation, or vice versa, is very slight. Some homosexual men and women voluntarily come for therapy to change from same-sex to opposite-sex partners, but it is not clear whether the limited "success" rate refers to a change in their feelings and the pattern of their desire, or just in their ability to consciously restrict their sexual contact to members of the opposite sex."
** Patricia Hersch, The Family Therapy Networker, Jan/Feb 1991

* "Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness."
** [[Sigmund Freud]], ''letter to an American mother's plea to cure her son's homosexuality,'' 1935

* *The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species."
** [[Alfred Kinsey]], ''[[Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male]]'' (1948)

* "Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomgy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex."
** [[Alfred Kinsey]], ''[[Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male]]'' (1948)

* "The dilemma of traditional sex research lay in the unconscious, but unquestiongly assumed division into opposing ''drives'' and ''hereditary factors''... The division into heterosexuality and homosexuality, into hetersexuals and homosexuals, is also an artefact that rests on a grave error, namely, on the assumption that a fundamentally different model is necessary to explain heteorsexual and homosexual behavior. The entire investigation of etiology was ideologically loaded beforehand because it separated a segment of the sexual contiuum and attempted to make analyses with the help of fundamentally different concepts."
** [[Rolf Gindorf]], "Scientific ideologies in change: Fear of Homosexuality as an Intellectual Event", 1977

* "It would encourage clearer thinking on these matters if persons were not characterized as hetereosexual or homosexual, but as individuals who have had certain amounts of heterosexual experience and certain amounts of homosexual experience. Instead of using these terms as substantives which stand for persons, or even as adjectives to describe persons, they may better be used to describe the nature of the overt sexual relations, or of the stimuli to which an individual erotically responds."
** [[Alfred Kinsey]]

* "Appropriate patterns of reproductive, gender, and sexual conduct are all products of specific cultures and all can be viewed as examples of socially scripted conduct. Western societies now have a system of gender and sexual learning in which gender differential scripts are learned prior to sexual scripts, but take their origins in part from the previously learned gender scripts... There are two important point: The first is that both gender and sexuality are learned forms of social practice, and the second is that looking to "natural differences" between women and men for lessons about sexual conduct is an error."
** [[John Gagnon]], "The Eplicit and Implicit Use of the Scripting Perspective in Sex Research", 1990

* "From the perspective of scripting theory, same-gender erotic preferences are elicited and shaped by the systems of meaning offered for conduct in a culture. What is usually construed as culture against "man" or culture against nature is thus actually conflict among differently enculturated individuals or groups.<br> What is required is a constant recognition that acts of usage and explanation are acts of social control in the strong sense, that "homosexual" and "homosexuality" are names that have been imposed on some persons and their conduct by other persons -- and that this imposition has carried the right of the latter to tell the former the origins, meaning, and virtue of their conduct."
** [[John Gagnon]]

*Mom, I've been sitting around all day trying to decide whether to tell you it's just a phase, or to tell you the truth.
**Eric, ''Edge of Seventeen''

:'''Judy Fan''': I'm about to go out with some friends... you're welcome to come. They're all friends of Dorothy. You are a friend of Dorothy, aren't you?<br>
:'''Winston''': ...yeah, I guess I am. <br>
:'''Judy Fan''': We're going to have to teach you to smile when you say that.
::"A Friend of Dorothy", from ''Boys Life''

:As long as our culture makes coming out an act of civil disobedience, being gay will be a political statement. Accept, at least for now, that your sexuality has political ramifications.
::Kenneth Hanes, "The Gay Guy's Guide to Life"

:[describing a straight woman's infatuation with a gay man:] We had this electric moment when you said to me, "Why do you have to be gay?" and I said to you, "Me? Why do you have to be a woman?"
::Nick, in ''It's My Party''

:'''Seishiro''': So I suppose we can pick a date for our wedding now.
:'''Subaru''': Um, but I'm a boy...
:'''Seishiro''': So I noticed.
::Nanase Ohkawa, ''Tokyo Babylon''

:[Refusing heterosexual sex:] I've never tried communism, but I know I wouldn't like that. It's the same thing. Or grits.
::Matt Mateo, in [[The Opposite of Sex]]

:If I came out, it would kill Mother. ...I'll do it tonight.
::Oscar Wildcat, in ''Queer Duck''

:...but here am I;
:Once a caterpillar, now a butterfly.
::[[Pet Shop Boys]], "Metamorphosis"

:They hug in silence as the sun sets on their empty street.
:Her suspicions, well they’re rising high.
:And the man who sweeps him off she doesn’t meet.
::[[The Killers]], "Where the White Boys Dance"

:I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
::[[Oscar Wilde]], ''De Profundis''

:But the base philanderer
:Ogled with another;
:So, of course, to despite her,
:I decided to transfer
:Affections to her brother.
::[[John Barford]], "Serve Her Right"

:-Didja make your quota, Lois?
:-Yup, kissed a woman from every state in the Union. Rhode Island was a drag queen, though. Do you think that counts?
::Thea and Lois, in [[Alison Bechdel]]'s ''Dykes to Watch Out For''

:I love the word "faggot," because it describes my kind of guy! You see, I am a fag hag. Fag hags are the backbone of the gay community. Without us, ''you're nothing''! We have been there all through history guiding your sorry ass through the underground railroad! ...We went to the prom with you!
::[[Margaret Cho]], ''I'm The One That I Want''

:I love my gay male friends, but when I was a little girl I always used to wish that I would be constantly surrounded by gorgeous guys, and I am, and I should have been more specific.
::[[Margaret Cho]], ''I'm The One That I Want''

:Thank God for gay men. Thank God for gay men, because if it were not for gay men, I would not talk to men ''at all''.
::[[Margaret Cho]], ''I'm The One That I Want''

:Grace, who's five, has a friend over and I hear her say to her friend, "Let's pretend we're gay." The friend goes, "What's gay?" And Grace says, "Gay is when two girls get together, dance and have fun."
::[[Kate Clinton]], ''Free your Mind''

:Loosen up. Being masculine doesn't mean being a statue. Wrists were made to bend.
::[[Kenneth Hanes]], "The Gay Guy's Guide to Life"

:And I'll stay away from Verlaine, too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
::[[Dorothy Parker]], "The Little Hours"

:He's here, he's queer, I'm buying him a beer!
::Alexander, in ''[[Queer as Folk]]''

:I always get the feeling that when lesbians look at me, they're thinking, "That's why I'm not a heterosexual."
::George Costanza, in ''[[Seinfeld]]''

:This news [of the government's refusal to allow same-sex marriages] has sent shock waves through the gay community of the Northwest Territories. We go to him now.
::''This Hour Has 22 Minutes''

:''Puisqu'il faut choisir, à mots doux je peux le dire''
:''Sans contrefaçon, je suis un garçon''
:''Et pour un empire, je ne veux me dévêtir''
:''Puisque sans contrefaçon, je suis un garçon''
:(Since I have to choose, softly I can say it
:Without counterfeiting, I am a boy
:Even for all the world, I don't want to undress myself
:Since without counterfeiting, I am a boy)
::[[Mylène Farmer]], "Sans contrefaçon"

:Before you criticize queens, fairies or someone who acts "too queer", consider where we'd be without them.
::[[Kenneth Hanes]], "The Gay Guy's Guide to Life"

:When a gay man has way too much fashion sense for one gender, he is a drag queen.
::Miss Noxeema, in ''To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar''

:We've all got an image that we want to convey
:And drag is something each of us does every single day
::[[Romanovsky & Phillips]], "My Mother's Clothes"

:-Wait'll you see MY act. Bertha Venation, in the Dance ... of the Virgin.
:-Which she does completely from memory.
:-Bitch!
::Bertha Venation and Marsha Dimes, in ''Torch Song Trilogy''

:Now then, I hasten to repeat that these practices [S&M] are certainly not usual or universal among us, but rather are variants practiced by a minority that is not representative of all gay people, although they do make up an identifiable sector that I don't want to leave out (as do many politically correct gay people, who like to give the impression that gay men only sodomize each other on Versace cushions by candlelights to Yo-Yo Ma playing Bach's Suites for Cello.)
::[[Miss Shangay Lily]], ''Mari, ¿me pasas el poppers?''

:Haven't you noticed that John is just a little bit... festive?
::Marge, in "Homer Phobia" ([[The Simpsons]])

:Pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy
:Who were the one they could talk about around town as they put you down
:And as hard as they would try to hurt, they made you cry
:But you never cried to them, just to your soul...
:You leave in the morning with everything you own in a little black case
:Alone on a platform, the wind and the rain on a sad and lonely face...
:Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away...
::[[Bronski Beat]], "Small Town Boy"

:Amid this whole uproar [over gays in the military], the most apt comment I heard was on my local eleven o'clock TV news when they interviewed a woman on the street. She said, "I don't understand somethin'. These guys are supposed to travel all over the world, live in trenches, sleep in mud, and walk over minefields. But they can't take some guy lookin' at 'em?"
::[[Sara Cytron]] and Harriet Malinowitz, ''Take My Domestic Partner... Please!''

:Even though adult homosexuals have fought hard to win rights and liberties... too many people are still scandalized by the mere idea that youth discovering their gay orientation could be given the same liberties and possibilities as straight ones. Whereas the discovery of heterosexual desire is celebrated as the sign that "he's becoming a man" and therefore largely encouraged, without anyone seeing any sort of proselytizing in it, it's a completely different story when it's homosexual desire that's surfacing. Everything happens as if gays and bisexuals under 18 didn't exist, or at least shouldn't exist.
::Dr. Michel Dorais, ''Mort ou fif''

:Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.
::Miss Manners ([[Judith Martin]]), ''Miss Manners Rescues Civilization''

:Jackie Biskupski is running for a seat in the Utah Legislature, and she's attracting a lot of attention because she's a lesbian. Her Republican opponent, Dan Alderson, is a staunch Mormon, and is running a negative ad campaign calling her lifestyle abnormal and deviant. His six wives agree.
::Rick Mercer, ''[[This Hour Has 22 Minutes]]'', October 12, 1998

:She's made you some kind of laughing stock
:Because you dance to disco and you don't like rock
:She made fun of you and even in bed
:Said she was going to go and get herself a real man instead
::[[Pet Shop Boys]], "Can You Forgive Her?"

:The more that you hate, the more that it grates.
::[[Pet Shop Boys]], "Up Against It"

:He told me to pull my socks up; find a nice girl and get married. I told my doctor I wanted to see a psychiatrist. He said I was a namby-pamby. He told me to get a piece of paper and draw pictures of nude women. I think he was off his rocker.
::Michael Schofield, ''A Minority''

:-Mr Garrison, can I ask you a question?
:-Of course, Stanley. What is it?
:-What's a - homosexual?
:-Oh. Well, Stanley, I guess you came to the right person. Sit down. ...Stanley, gay people - well, gay people are evil. Evil right down to their cold black hearts, which pump not blood like yours and mine, but rather a thick vomitous oil that oozes through their rotten veins and clots in their pea-sized brains, which becomes the cause of their Naziesque patterns of violent behaviour. Do you understand?
:-I guess.
:-Good. I'm glad we could have this little talk, Stanley. Now you go outside and practice football like a good little heterosexual.
::Stan and Mr. Garrison, from ''[[South Park]]''

:Gays are not oppressed on a whim, but because of the specific need of capitalism for the nuclear family. The nuclear family, as the primary -- and inexpensive -- provider and carer for the workforce, fulfilled in the nineteenth century and still fulfills an important need for capitalism. Alternative sexualities represent a threat to the family model because they provide an alternative role model for people. Gays are going to be in the front line of attack whenever capitalism wants to reinforce family values.
::Louise Tierney, "Looking to the Future"

:<i>¿A quién le importa lo que yo haga?
:¿A quién le importa lo que yo diga?
:Yo soy así, así seguiré,
:¡y nunca cambiaré!</i>
:(Who cares what I say? Who cares what I do? I'm like this, I'll stay like this, and I will never change!)
::Alaska, "¿A quién le importa?"

:My voice rings down through thousands of years
:To coil around your body and give you strength,
:You who have wept in direct sunlight,
:Who have hungered in invisible chains,
:Tremble to the cadence of my legacy:
:An army of lovers cannot fail.
::[[Rita Mae Brown]], "Sappho's Reply"

:[quoting her friends from high school, Alan and Jeremy] "I do not need nobody tellin' me who I am! I know who I am!... I be walkin' down the hallway, they call me names. They call me faggot, they call me sissy, I say, 'Oh yeah? Well, you forgot, I'm also a model and a actress, so fuck you too!'"
::[[Margaret Cho]], ''The Notorious C.H.O.''

:[Among young gay men], it is the ''rebel'' who, in rejecting homophobia, develops a resistance that will protect him in a certain way from depression and suicide.
::Dr. Michel Dorais, ''Mort ou fif''

:When a straight couple's relationship fails, it's because of his/her drinking, inability to commit, infidelity, and so on. In other words, a straight couple's relationship fails because of personal flaws, not because its participants are heterosexual. But when a gay relationship fails, "they" say it's because gay relationships inherently can't work. Call this double standard what it is - a crock of homophobic crap.
::[[Kenneth Hanes]], The Gay Guy's Guide to Love

:What do you mean, since when did I become such a radical fairy? Since I started knowing twits like you, you twit!
::[[Larry Kramer]], ''Just Say No''

:This pioneer of sexology [Krafft-Ebing] even came to question whether homosexuality might be innate (and people began to forgive us for living, as if it would matter to anyone if being an Atlético de Madrid fan was innate or not.)
::[[Miss Shangay Lily]], ''Mari, ¿me pasas el poppers?''

:[To a gay-basher] You'd better be careful. The last time I was this close to another man, we were slow dancing.
::Antony, in ''The Other Side of the Closet''

:But for all of those who don't fit in,
:Who follow their instincts and are told they sin,
:This is a prayer for a different way.
::[[Pet Shop Boys]], "Red Letter Day"

:Coming toward them, on the path, were two glittering, loud-talking fairies....Ida said, "I always feel so sorry for people like that."
;Ellis grinned. "Why should you feel sorry for them? They've got each other."
::[[James Baldwin]], ''Another Country''

:If it be sin to love a lovely lad
:Oh there sin I.
::[[Richard Barnfield]], "The Affectionate Shepherd"

:And what is she (quoth he) whom thou do'st love?
:Look in this glasse (quoth I) there shalt thou see
:The perfect forme of my faelicitie.
:When, thinking that it would strange Magique prove,
:He open'd it: and taking of the cover,
:He straight perceav'd himselfe to be my Lover.
::[[Richard Barnfield]], "Sonnet 11"

:Iuventius, if I were always allowed
:to kiss your honey-sweet eyes,
:I might kiss you three hundred
:thousand times, and never be sated.
::[[Catullus]], ''Passion: To Iuventius''

:I believe the more you love a man,
:The more you give your trust, the more you're bound to lose,
:Although, when shadows fall,
:I think if only somebody splendid really needed me,
:Someone affectionate and dear,
:Cares would be ended if I knew that he
:Wanted to have me near...
::[[Noel Coward]], "If Love Were All"

:There's a man in the city, a wonderful, beautiful man, who loves me very much. And he's going to love you too. And we're going to be a family.
::Sweet William, from ''The Hanging Garden''

:He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg- a cosy, loving pair.
::[[Herman Melville]], ''Moby Dick''

::Melvin Udall: Never, never, interrupt me, okay? Not if there's a fire, not even if you hear the sound of a thud from my home and one week later there's a smell coming from there that can only be a decaying human body and you have to hold a hanky to your face because the stench is so thick that you think you're going to faint. Even then, don't come knocking. Or, if it's election night, and you're excited and you wanna celebrate because some fudgepacker that you date has been elected the first queer president of the United States and he's going to have you down to Camp David, and you want someone to share the moment with. Even then, don't knock. Not on this door. Not for ANY reason. Do you get me, sweetheart?
::''[[As Good As It Gets]]''

:Remember when you were more easily led
:Behind the cricket pavillion and the bicycle shed
:Trembling as your dreams came true
:You looked up into those blue eyes and knew
:It was love, and now you can't pretend
:You've forgotten all the promises of that first friend...
::[[Pet Shop Boys]], "Can You Forgive Her?"

:To free in me the trust I never dared
:I always thought the risk too great
:But suddenly, I don't hesitate
:So take my hand, don't think of complications
:Now, right now, your love is [[liberation]]
::[[Pet Shop Boys]], "Liberation"

:Once I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, tradition,
:Yet now of all that city I remember only a man I casually met there who detained me for love of me,
:Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me,
:I remember I saw only that man who passionately clung to me,
:Again we wander, we love, we separate again,
:Again he holds me by the hand, I must not go,
:I see him close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.
::[[Walt Whitman]], "Once I pass'd through a populous city"

:If all lesbians suddenly turned purple today, society would be surprised at the number of purple people in high places.
::[[Sidney Abbott]] & [[Barbara Love]], ''Sappho was a right-on woman'', 1972

:here are some homosexuals whom we would do well to take seriously.
::[[Robertson Davies]], ''The Manticore''

:'''Dear Miss Manners''': What should I say when I am introduced to a homosexual "couple"?
:'''Gentle Reader''': "How do you do?" "How do you do?"
::Miss Manners ([[Judith Martin]]), ''Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior''

:To being an "us" for once instead of a "them:"
:''La vie bohème!''
::''Rent'', "La Vie Bohème"

:The ongoing psychopathic hatred of same-sexuality has made the United States the laughingstock of the civilized world. In most of the First World, [[monotheism]] is weak. Where it is weak or nonexistent, private sexual behavior has nothing to do at all with those not involved, much less the law. At least when the [[Emperor Justinian]], a Christian monotheist, decided to outlaw [[sodomy]], he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our monotheists, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that loony text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area.
:: [[Gore Vidal]], ''(The Great Unmentionable) Monotheism and its Discontents'', essay

:King James' favorite male lovers were the Earl of Somerset and the Duke of Buckingham.
:: Ben Edward Akerly, ''The X-rated Bible''

:James's sexual orientation was so widely known that Sir Walter Raleigh joked about it in public saying "King Elizabeth" had been succeeded by "Queen James."
:: Catherine D. Bowen, ''The Lion and the Throne''

"See the nice boys dancing in pairs/Golden earring, golden tan, blow-wave in their hair/Sure they're all straight! Straight as a line/All the gays are macho; see their leather shine".
:: Joe Jackson, "Real Men"

:"Constantly harrassed and misunderstood. I'm the 'lost and found' of the the neighbourhood. And I am not a part of society. So don't get off the ground, just be with me."
** [[w:New Order|New Order]], "Chemical"

:"I dunno how you all feel about it, gays in the military. Here's how I feel about it. Anyone ''dumb enough'' to want to be in the military should be allowed in. End of fucking story."
** [[Bill Hicks]] (comedian), ''Rant in E-Minor''

:"You know, I'm so sick - I've watched all these fucking congressional hearings and all these military guys and the pundits seriously, "Oh, the esprit du corps will be affected", and "Oh we are such a moral..." Excuse me?! Aren't you all just fucking hired killers?! Shut up!"
** [[Bill Hicks]] (comedian), on gay people in the military, ''Rant in E-Minor''

=== Real people ===

* "“My sexuality is my own sexuality. It doesn’t belong to anybody. Not to my government, not to my brother, my sister, my family. No.”
** Ashraf Zanati, in the documentary ''[[Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World]]''; Zanati was one of [[The Cairo 52]], a group of men imprisoned for homosexuality in Egypt

* "If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door."
* "You gotta give them hope."
** Harvey Milk (Shilts, R. <i>The Mayor of Castro Street</i>, pp 184, 375)

* "I was walkin down the street and a guy called me a fag, I said call me straight and then I'll be insulted "!
** Big Baby

=== Literature ===

* "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]], ''A Streetcar Named Desire''

* "In an article published seventy years ago Erich Bethe observed that the intrusion of moral evaluation, 'the deadly enemy of science', had vitiated the study of Greek homosexuality; and it has continued to do so. A combination of a love of Athens with hatred of homosexuality underlies the judgments that homosexual relations were 'a Dorian sin, cultivated by a tiny minority at Athens' (J.A.K. Thomson, ignoring the evidence of the visual arts) or that they were 'regarded as disgraceful both by law and ... by general opinion' (A.E. Taylor, ignoring the implications of the text to which he refers in his footnote)...I know of no topic in classical studies on which a scholar's normal ability to perceive differences and draw inferences is so easily impaired; and none on which a writer is so likely to be thought to have said what he has not said or to be charged with omitting to say something which he has said several times."
** K.J. Dover, (1989). ''Greek Homosexuality'', preface, p.vii. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674362705.

* "Forty-six now and dying by inches, I finally see how our lives align at the core, if not in the sorry details. I still shiver with a kind of astonished delight when a gay brother or sister tells of that narrow escape from the coffin world of the closet. Yes yes yes, goes a voice in my head, it was just like that for me. When we laugh together then and dance in the giddy circle of freedom, we are children for real at last, because we have finally grown up."
** Paul Monnette, ''Becoming A Man''. Harper Collins, ISBN 0060595647

=== Films ===

=== Individuals ===

* "You are gay! You are a homosexual! I know it, your family knows it, dogs know it! The only one who doesn't know it is you!"
** The Doctor (Dave Foley), ''Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy''

* "You're not listening to me! I am ''fucking gay''!
** Alyssa Jones ([[Joey Lauren Adams]]), ''Chasing Amy''

* "Oh please, you are not bisexual. I went to a bar mitzvah once; that doesn't make me Jewish.
** Lucia ([[Lisa Kudrow]]), ''The Opposite of Sex''

=== Dialogue ===

:'''Inspector Roverini''': È possibile che ha tendenze… omosessuali? ''[translation: It is possible he has homosexual tendencies?]''
:'''Peter Smith-Kingsley''': He wants to know if you're a homosexual.
:'''Tom Ripley''': No!
:'''Peter Smith-Kingsley''': No.
:* ''The Talented Mr. Ripley''; played by [[Sergio Rubini]], [[Jack Davenport]], and [[Matt Damon]] in order of mention

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:'''Norma Cassady''': I think that the right woman could reform you.
:'''Carroll 'Toddy' Todd''': You know, I think the right woman could reform ''you''.
:* ''Victor/Victoria''; played by [[Lesley Ann Warren]] and [[Robert Preston]] in order of mention

=== Music ===

* "It was January 1963 when Johnny came home for a gift for me. He said 'I bought it for you because I love you and I bought it for you because it's your birthday, too.'. He was so very nice, he was so very kind to think of me, at this point in time....I just want you to be mine. I don't want this world to shine. I don't want this bridge to burn. Oh Johnny do you miss me? I just want to feel free."
** [[w:New Order|New Order]], "1963"

* "What I wanted to be was a family man, / but Nature had some alternative plans."
** [[Pet Shop Boys]], "Metamorphosis"

* "Straight-looking Marine seeks straight cop to please..." / How straight do they look when they're down on their knees?
** [[Romanovsky and Phillips]], [http://www.lyricspy.com/50702/Romanovsky_And_Phillips_lyrics/Give_Me_A_Homosexual_lyrics.html "Give Me A Homosexual"]

* "Better pray for your sins. Better pray for your sins, 'cause the Gay Messiah's coming. No it will not be me. Rufus the Baptist I be. No I won't be the one...."
** [[Rufus Wainwright]], "Gay Messiah"

* Why make it sad to be gay? <br/> Doing your thing is okay. <br/> Our body's our own, so leave us alone <br/>And play with yourself today.
** [[John Lennon]], quoted in ''The Gay Liberation Book''

* Shock the middle class, take it up your punk rock ass. <br/> You rub your puny thing, when you see studs with tight jeans pass you on the street. <br/> Who wears short shorts? You wear short shorts. <br/> You're so full of shit <br/> Why don't you admit that you don't have the balls to be a queer.
** [[Screeching Weasel]], "I Wanna Be a Homosexual"

=== Television ===

* She's, she's the— the [[w:yin and yang|yin to my yang]]. Um… I just can't actually put my yang ''in'' her.
** [[w:Eric McCormack|Eric McCormack]] as Will, about Grace; ''Inside the Actors Studio'', episode 10.03 ("The Cast of ''[[Will & Grace]]''"), [[November 16]], [[2003]]

== Unsourced ==

:I am comfortable with being gay. I'm just not comfortable with people knowing.
::Unknown

:I wrote [a National Coming Out Day card] for myself... Mine would go,
:::<i>Roses are red,
:::Violets are blue,
:::I'm a lesbian,
:::And so is Aunt Phyllis.</i>
::[[Sabrina Matthews]]

:And the day came when the risk it took to remain closed in a bud became more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
::[[Anaïs Nin]]

:I knew I was gay when I came out of my mothers womb. I looked back and thought 'I'm never going up one of those again'."
::[[Stephen Fry]]

: [Male Heckler] Are you a lesbian?! [Cameron] Are you my alternative?
::[[Rhona Cameron]]

:Cruise the Straits with BC Ferries
::BC Ferries advertising slogan, 1980s

:Love knows no gender.
::[[Hugh Goldring]]

:If you're going to be gay, you might as well be fabulous. It's a birthright.
::[[Frank deCaro]]

* "One wedding cake designer I called said, 'We specialize in elaborate beautiful white flowers all over the cake.' So I said, 'I should tell you, this is for two men.' There was a slight pause and she said, 'I can put little baseball players all over it?'"
* [[Mark Harris]]

:He did Carol Channing better than I did.
::[[Carol Channing]], on drag queen Charles Pierce

:44 MEN AND 1 WOMAN ARRESTED FOR FEMALE IMPERSONATION
::''New York Post'' headline, c. 1968

:I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?
::[[RuPaul]]

:I spent my whole childhood going, "Oh my God... All right, fine. I may be attracted to women, but I can't be a lesbian. I like Laura Ashley polished cottons! And I throw like a girl! And I cry for no apparent reason all the time! Oh my God, I'm a gay man!"
::[[Vickie Shaw]]

:A son was home from college and tells his dad, "I think my roommate's becoming a queer!"
:"What makes you think so?" asked the dad.
:"Because he closes his eyes when I kiss him!"
::[[Anonymous]]

:People...do not believe there can be tears between men. They think we are only playing at a game and that we do it to shock them.
::[[James Baldwin]]

:I don't think we're born self-hating. It's how we respond to bullies. And if any place in the world grows tough bullies, it's this country. They're our chief export. George Bush cut his bully teeth on people like me.
::[[Kate Bornstein]]

:As everyone knows, a fag is a homosexual gentleman who has just left the room.
::[[Truman Capote]]

:It's always Leviticus. "Thou shalt not lie with man as with woman." Well, I ''don't.''
::Maggie Cassella

:It's you straights who have all the special rights. You straights have the special right to marry. You straights have the special right to be in the military, go out on a date with the person you love, talk about it the next day, and not get kicked out for it. You straights have the special right not to be prevented from visiting your loved one in the hospital.... To say that gays and lesbians are asking for special rights is the height of lunacy.
::Elijah Elders

:If we're going to be killing people for their lifestyle, you or I may end up being dead tomorrow.
::Ron Gaither, uncle of fatal gay-bashing victim Billy Jack Gaither

:Anyone who thinks that love needs to be cured has not experienced enough of it in their own lives.
::Joan Garry

:Okay, yes, there is a homosexual agenda, okay? There's just two things on it:
:1) don't get killed;
:2) a decent brunch. That's it!
::[[Elvira Kurt]]

:Someday, I want to go to this town in Michigan called Dyke. Every year, all the women on their way to the Michigan Womyn's Festival make a pilgrimage to Dyke to have their picture taken at the Dyke city-limits sign... Apparently, the citizens of Dyke don't appreciate this yearly pilgrimage... If they don't want us to visit, just change the name of the town. Change it to "Uptight Straight White Guy" - we'll stay away.
::[[Sabrina Matthews]]

:The church says we should get down on our knees and repent! Well, excuse me, but didn't being on my knees ''cause'' most of my sins?
::[[Bob Smith]]

:[Pinky] said that I was a fairy, a weak person, and maybe didn't even deserve to live. OK, I'm not sure, but I think this means that me and Pinky, we're not best friends anymore.
::''Trevor''

:The pope runs all over the world condemning homosexuality, dressed in high drag. Now I ask you!
::[[Robin Tyler]]

:In high school, while your children were doing what kids that ages should be doing, mine labored over a suicide note, drafting and redrafting it to be sure his family knew how much he loved them. My sobbing 17-year-old tore the heart out of me as he choked out that he just couldn't bear to continue living any longer, that he didn't want to be gay and that he couldn't face a life without dignity. You have the audacity to talk about protecting families and children from the homosexual menace, while you yourselves tear apart families and drive children to despair. I don't know why my son is gay, but I do know that God didn't put him, and millions like him, on this Earth to give you someone to abuse.
::Sharon Underwood

:Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said that homosexuality "is a lifestyle I don't agree with." This is a trope you hear from the religious right a good deal... but it is a very odd thing to say. No one speaking rationally says, "I don't agree with the Pacific Ocean" or "I don't agree with the Grand Canyon."
::[[Paul Varnell]]

:Squeaky Fromme got life for ''missing'' Gerald Ford!
::A courtroom spectator, after Dan White got two years for assassinating Harvey Milk and George Moscone

:Thank God, now we can sodomize again!
:[[Anonymous]] Florentine official, during riots against the influence of the monk Savonarola

:He drew a circle that shut me out
:Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
:But love and I had the wit to win.
:We drew a circle that took him in.
::Edwin Markham

:Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?
::[[Elayne Boosler]]

:Why be nice to ignorant hicks? My advice to all of you gay boys that live in a horrible town is: be a BITCH and you'll never be afraid of walking down the hall. Be strong. Never let stupid people make you ashamed of who you are!
::Chad, quoted in ''XY'' Magazine

:Okay, conservatives have changed my mind. Allowing gay marriage, I have been persuaded, will destroy the family, weaken Western civilization, turn America into Sodom and Gomorrah, increase the trade deficit with Japan, endanger the family farm and promote tooth decay. The impeccable logic of conservative opponents is simply too powerful to deny.
::Stephen Chapman

:John Paulk, the poster boy for the ex-gays... was found in a gay bar in Washington. He said he was there to use the bathroom. But nobody thought to ask him for what.
::[[Kate Clinton]]

:The more [gay people] are portrayed on screen as understandable human beings, the more threatening they seem off-screen. ...No one - whether supportive about gay rights or not - should confuse the fantasy tolerance of television with a culture in which gays are treated as equal citizens.
::Richard Goldstein

:This redneck came up to me and said, "What do you want me to call you? Queer? Fag? Homo?"
:I said, "You can call me... Paul Jacek."
::[[Paul Jacek]]

:I was performing at a comedy club and when I said I'm a lesbian, a guy in the audience yelled out, "Can I watch?" I said, "Watch me what? Fix my car?"
::[[Sabrina Matthews]]

:[to Dr. Laura] Get off the gay man's back and leave some room for me!
::''Queer Duck''

:[On whether ex-gays are really straight] Just because you sleep in a garage doesn't make you a car.
::Gary Rimar

:If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work. "Hello. Can't work today, still queer."
::[[Robin Tyler]]

:''Dear Abby: [We're upset because a gay couple has just moved in across the street.] How can we improve the quality of the neighbourhood?''
:You could move.
::[[Abigail Van Buren]]

:If they don't want us in the military, then I say that straight men can't be florists and straight women can't be UPS drivers.
::[[Danny Williams]]

:Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
::[[James Baldwin]]

:For death, or life, or toil,
:To thee myself I join;
:I take thy hand in mine,
:With thee I would grow old.
::From an ancient Chinese male-male wedding ceremony

:Saturday night I at last was taken into the arms of love again! Seldom have I had such affection offered me. An athlete - very strong - 20 only - dark-haired - distantly Bohemian. I hope it will last a while - I deserve a little kindness and he was so kind!
::[[Hart Crane]]

:Years and years I have fear'd the shame
:And the cruel speech of the world.
:But over our heads in the darkness now
:Is the banner of love unfurl'd,
:(Lean closer, cling to me, kiss my lips,
:''Our'' love can despise the world.)
::[[Gabriel Gillet]]

:Every friend loves, but not all men
:Who love are friends. You'll find this true,
:Then, whomsoever you may love,
:Be his friend too.
::Marcus Valerius Martialis ([[Martial]])

:A double brightness burned me: rays
:There were which travelled in the gaze
:Of that boy's eyes, the beams of Love;
:And others from the Sun above.
::[[Meleager]]

:Sweet boy, gentle boy,
:Don't be ashamed, you are mine forever:
:The same rebellious fire is in both of us,
:We are living one life.
:I am not afraid of mockery:
:Between us, the two have become one,
:We are precisely like a double nut
:Under a single shell.
::[[Alexander Pushkin]]

:When she left, she wept
:a great deal; she said to me, "This parting must be
:endured, Sappho. I go unwillingly."
:I said, "Go, and be happy
:but remember (you know
:well) whom you leave shackled by love."
::[[Sappho]]

:If you remove all the homosexuals and homosexual influences from what is generally regarded as American culture, you are pretty much left with ''Let's Make a Deal.''
::[[Fran Lebowitz]]

:It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
::[[Francis Maude]]

:The Religious Right dislikes both [[abortion]]s and homosexuality. But who has fewer abortions than gays?
:: [[George Carlin]]

:According to the Gospels, [[Jesus did not]] devote any serious time or effort denouncing either "[[abortion]]" or "homosexuality" though he did devote serious time and effort denouncing the "rich" along with self-righteous religious hypocrites. Maybe today's Religious Right could learn a few things about "prioritizing" from Jesus?
:: E.T.B.

:Alexander the Great? Another gay in the [[military]].
:: E.T.B.

:I thank God for creating gay men. Because if it wasn't for them, us fat women would have no one to dance with.
:: [[Roseanne]]

:If AIDS is God's punishment for sex, why is a little piece of rubber so effective in avoiding it?
:: Rev. Jim Huber

:If AIDS is a divine punishment does that make lesbians God's chosen people?
:: Source unknown

:Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
:: Butch Hancock

:I'm not saying that the religious right is wrong for condemning homosexuals and terrorizing them for thousands of years. I'm just saying...FUUUUCK YOU.
:: [[Christina Applegate]] (in magazine interview)

:I said some things about homosexuals, particularly in the 60s when reporting about the popularity of discotheques, that I regret having said. Times are changing and we are learning that it is not a sickness, and frankly I never thought that it was. I said what was said to me as fact at that time. It's not a fact. It was damned stupid. We're all learning.
:: [[Barbara Walters]]

:Our country is founded on a sham: our forefathers were slave-owning rich white guys who wanted it their way. So when I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.' That you can have a gay parade on Christopher Street in New York, with naked men and women on a float cheering, 'We're here, we're queer!' -- that's what makes my heart swell. Not the flag, but a gay naked man or woman burning the flag. I get choked up with pride.
:: [[Janeane Garofalo]]

:I played at clubs in Washington, D.C. to these wonderful gay men. They taught me how to become a woman.
:: [[Tori Amos]]

:Of course we let lesbians and gays march in our St. Patrick's Day
:Parade. What would Ireland be without its fairies?"
::City council member of Dublin

:Teenage boy – I’m more man than you can handle.<br>Dyke – I’m more woman than you can handle, and more man than you’ll ever be.
::- Anonymous

:When the Mormons come to my door I make a deal with them. I’ll try their religion if they’ll try my sexuality.
::- Anonymous

* "History should dispel the impression that public tolerance of homosexuality is an index of a society's devotion to liberty."

* "The Gay and Lesbian community informs the entire society of . . . directions for exploring and living life to its fullest potential."

=== Homophobia ===

* "Homophobia in Lithuania is so strong that it can even be easily seen from the space"
** unknown

=== Real people ===

* Next time someone is shocked that I'm gay, I will probably say "oh, my slave hasn't washed by pink triangle."
**[[Ian Clark]]

* Being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.
** [[Clive Barker]]

* "The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom."
** [[Urvashi Vaid]] at the March on Washington, April 25, 1993

* "Yes, I am Dick Armey. And if there is a 'dick army,' Barney Frank would want to join up."
** [[Dick Armey]]

* "I discovered my own gayness, I realized it would make me an outsider in society. I began to identify with other groups of outsiders, people who had no control over their own lives. I identified with women in their struggles against oppression, with the working class in their struggles against exploitation and with the Third World in their struggles against imperialism and poverty."
** [[Bob Cant]]

* "Let's get one thing straight. I'm not."
** [[Kate Clinton]]

* "When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother ''anything''.'"
** [[Quentin Crisp]]

* "A lifetime of disco music is a high price to pay for one's sexuality."
** [[Quentin Crisp]]

* "Did you read Holly Near's book? Let me save you the trouble. This is the most exciting sentence in the book: 'I feel like a lesbian when I'm making love to a woman.' ''Good'', Holly! Well, the major difference between me and Holly Near is that I feel like a lesbian when I am BREATHING!"
** [[Lea DeLaria]]

* "He looked me right in the face and said, 'You fucking bulldyke!' And I thought to myself, 'Oooh, what a smart man! Why, I'll bet he took one look at me and knew I was white, too!'"
** [[Lea DeLaria]]

* "I'm at West Virginia University to do a show, right, and they've done all this fucking publicity about it... So when I get to my show, who's waiting for me but five hundred Christian protestors with great big signs. 'Lea DeLaria is going to hell.' Not generic 'gay is not good;' 'Lea DeLaria is going to hell.' Which is what I need five hundred strangers to tell me, like twelve years of Catholic fucking school wasn't enough, right?!"
** [[Lea DeLaria]]

* "My mother said to me, 'Why do you have to call yourself a dyke? Why can't you be a nice lesbian?' 'Because I'm not a nice lesbian, I'm a big dyke!'"
** [[Lea DeLaria]]

* "They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!"
** [[Lea DeLaria]]

* "What do you mean, you 'don't believe in homosexuality?' It's not like the Easter Bunny; your belief isn't necessary."
** [[Lea DeLaria]]

* "In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all."
** [[Ani Difranco]]

* "Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight; other days the line tends to deviate."
** [[Ani Difranco]]

* "We do not recruit. We can only impress."
** [[Marga Gomez]]

* "One wedding cake designer I called said, 'We specialize in elaborate beautiful white flowers all over the cake.' So I said, 'I should tell you, this is for two men.' There was a slight pause and she said, 'I can put little baseball players all over it?'"
** [[Mark Harris]]

* "Men and women, women and men. It will never work."
** [[Erica Jong]]

* "My mother tells people, 'My daughter... is a comedian... and a lesbian. Both... at the same time.'"
** [[Elvira Kurt]]

* "There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality."
** [[Norman Mailer]]

* "Doy gracias a Dios por ser gay."
** Translation: "I give thanks to God that I'm gay."
** [[Fr. José Mantero]]

* "I love Christians who tell me something sweet and Christian, like, 'You're going to hell!' It's not hard for me to picture gay hell. 'The scorching wind from the fiery pit messed up my hair, there's no mousse? No blow-dryer? This is hell! There's nothing on TV but Hee Haw. My furniture is from Levitz! I'm living in a trailer park! Aaaah!'"
* [[Danny McWilliams]]

* "Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed."
* [[Plato]]

* "I read that a big earthen dyke crumbled in Utah. Don't laugh. I knew her."
* [[Karen Ripley]]

* "Gays started with the Renaissance. It was probably two gay guys at a party saying, 'Wouldn't it be fun to make religious paintings of hot naked guys, and sell them to churches? Oh, that would be a hoot!'"
* [[Bob Smith]]

* "I came out to my family on Thanksgiving. I said, mom, please pass the gravy to a homosexual. She passed it to my father. A terrible scene ensued."
* [[Bob Smith]]

* "I came out to my sister, and she said, 'Oh my god, you're gay! Are you seeing a psychologist?' I answered, 'No, I'm seeing a schoolteacher.'"
* [[Bob Smith]]

* "I was raised Roman Catholic, and according to the Catholic Church it's okay to be homosexual, as long as you don't practice homosexuality. Which is interesting, because I think it's okay to be Catholic, so long as you don't practice Catholicism."
* [[Bob Smith]]

* "My mom blames California for me being a lesbian. 'Everything was fine until you moved out there...' That's right, Mom; we have mandatory lesbianism and the Gay Patrol busted me, and I was given seven days to add a significant amount of flannel to my wardrobe..."
* [[Coley Sohn]]

* "You know, they say that marriage is reserved for only a man and a woman... I of all people know that simply does not work."
* [[Elizabeth Taylor]]

* "How could I possible convince someone to be gay, what would I say? 'Oh we have no rights and everyone hates us, please come join us, live in my personal hell, with Madonna!'"
** Anonymous

* "Come on its the year 2004 straight people, if you let us marry each other we'll stop marrying you."
* Anonymous

* "If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work. 'Hello, can't work today. Still queer.'"
* [[Robin Tyler]]

* " 'How did you first know you were gay? What did you feel?' Apparently, another girl."
* [[Suzanne Westenhoefer]]

* I didn't choose to be gay; I was chosen! Are you serious? I get to be queer? Oh, thank you. I didn't even fill out the application, I am ''so'' thrilled. No, I did. I bought the ticket, I scratched it off... Look, I'm a lesbian! I won!"
* [[Suzanne Westenhoefer]]

* "It is for the teenagers who can be hours away from slitting their wrists that I am out."
* [[Courtney Wilson]]

* Oh, you're one of the sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it.
** [[Michael Savage]] (Savage Nation)

=== Negative ===

* If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [Gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything!
** [[Rick Santorum]] (Sen. R-PA)

* When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we'll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed.
** [[Randall Terry]] (Operation Rescue)

* I think that actually AIDS is a guardian. That is I think it was sent, if you would, about forty years ago, to destroy Western civilization unless we change our sexual ways. So it's really a Godsend.
** [[Paul Cameron]]

* Homosexuality is a crime against humanity.
** [[Paul Cameron]]

* Causes of homosexuality include: 'sex with animals'
** [[Paul Cameron]]

* Unless we get medically lucky, in three or four years, one of the options discussed will be the extermination of homosexuals.
** [[Paul Cameron]]

* [Homosexuals] want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers.
** [[Pat Robertson]] (Christian Coalition)

* I want to coin a phrase here, and I don't mind help. What would be the communication version of "ethnic cleansing?" Because that's what in particular the homosexual activists try to do.
** [[Laura Schlessinger]]

* Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.
** [[Jesse Helms]] (Sen. R-NC)

* The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian.
** [[Jesse Helms]] (Sen. R-NC)

* AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharoah's chariotters.
** [[Jerry Falwell]]

* AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
** [[Jerry Falwell]]

* AIDS is a racial disease of Jews and Niggers, and fortunately it is wiping out the queers. I guess God hates queers for several reasons. There is one big reason to be against queers and that is because every time some white boy is seduced by a queer into becoming a queer, means his white bloodline has run out.
** [[J. B. Stoner]]

* "If you got to castrate your miserable self with a piece of rusty barb wire, do it.
** [[Fred Phelps]] (Westboro Baptist Church)

* Hear the word of the LORD, America, fag-enablers are worse than the fags themselves, and will be punished in the everlasting lake of fire!
** [[Fred Phelps]] (Westboro Baptist Church)

* You telling these miserable, Hell-bound, bath house-wallowing, anal-copulating fags that God loves them!? You have bats in the belfry!
** [[Fred Phelps]] (Westboro Baptist Church)

* American Veterans are to blame for the fag takeover of this nation. They have the power in their political lobby to influence the zeitgeist, get the fags out of the military, and back in the closet where they belong!
** [[Fred Phelps]] (Westboro Baptist Church)

* Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports fags is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death.
** [[Fred Phelps]] (Westboro Baptist Church)

* Sodomy is a graver sin than murder. – Unless there is life there can be no murder.
** [[David Trosch]]

* Don't use the word 'gay' unless it's an acronym for 'Got Aids Yet'
** [[Bob Dornan]] (Rep. R-CA)

=== Television ===

I always tried to tell myself I wasn't a homosexual, but nature had alternate plans for me and my family, which went through alot once I "came out of the closet" - Matthew Parker

I agree, my family went through a lot once I realised the path I had been given. - Sonny Gibson

Couldn't have said it better myself sonny! - Sean Cusic

=== Individuals ===

*''[Advising his daughter on how to discourage a boy who likes her]'' "Six simple words: 'I'm not gay, but I'll learn'."
** [[Homer J. Simpson]]

* "I like my beers cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals flaming."
** [[Homer J. Simpson]]

* "Time to get Homer-erotic!"
** [[Homer J. Simpson]]

* "Of course! No one would marry the Earl of Doncaster! Except perhaps the Duke of Beauford."
** Prince Edmund Blackadder ([[Rowan Atkinson]]), trying to avoid his wedding, ''[[Blackadder]]''

* "I'm the only gay in the village."
** Daffyd ([[Matt Lucas]]), ''Little Britain''

* "Hetrosexuality doesn't really exist, folk are only straight by default!"
** Unknown

* "Any one that insults a homosexual or bisexual, is only hiding there own fear... that their so called "Friends" will hate them for it!"
** UnKnown

=== Dialogue ===

:'''Jack''': For your information, most people who meet me do not know that I am gay."
:'''Will''': Jack, blind and deaf people know you're gay. Dead people know you're gay."
:'''Jack''': Grace, when you first met me, did you know I was gay?"
:'''Grace''': My dog knew."
:— ''Will and Grace''; played by [[Sean Hayes]], [[Eric McCormack]], and [[Debra Messing]] in order of mention

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:'''Jovi''': You're fired, sacked, canned, you're getting the boot, your show is cancelled."
:'''Cyanne''': You can't fire me, you're not my boss dyke!"
:'''Jovi''': My friend is, and you can't use people like you use drugs. Now go get help and shake all those demons out of your head. When you're better, then I'm willing to meet you half way, but until then get out. And dykes are for the Dutch, I'm a Lessssssbian, get it straight. (''To Marisa'') Can I have a double Espresso?"
:— ''Metropia''; played by Zainab Musa, Kristin Fairlie, and Tracy Michailidis in order of mention

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:''[[Ross browses ex-wife Carol and her partner Susan's apartment.]''
:'''Ross''': Wow, you guys sure have a lot of books about bein' a lesbian.
:'''Susan''': Well, you know, you have to take a course. Otherwise, they don't let you do it.
:* ''[[Friends]]''

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:'''Judy Fan''': I'm about to go out with some friends...you're welcome to come. They're all friends of Dorothy. You are a friend of Dorothy, aren't you?
:'''Winston''': ...Yeah, I guess I am.
:'''Judy Fan''': We're going to have to teach you to smile when you say that.
:- ''A Friend of Dorothy'', from ''Boys Life''

== References ==

* Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) (2001). '' Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day''. New York: Routledge. ISBN 041522974X.

== See also ==

* [[Sexuality]]
* [[Heterosexuality]]
* [[Bisexuality]]

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