[sGt HarDKorE]

I just thought these were pretty cool and thought I would share them, keep any dumb comments to yourself thanks!


1) Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
~Ernest Gaines

2) No matter how far in or out of the closet you are, you still have a next step. ~Judy Shepard

3) There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.
~Boy George

4) Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
~Martina Navratilova

5) The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.
~Rev. Troy Perry

6)Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
~Benjamin Disraeli

7) Not just hip-hop, but America just discriminates. And I want to just, to come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends,. Yo, stop it.'
~Kanye West

8) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
~Lynn Lavner

9) Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524

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

11) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
~Joan Crawford

12) Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~Dr. Seuss

13) I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated "all my homosexual patients are quite sick" - to which I finally replied "so are all my heterosexual patients.
~Ernest van den Haag, psychotherapist

14) I get sick of listening to straight people complain about, "Well, hey, we don't have a heterosexual-pride day, why do you need a gay-pride day?" I remember when I was a kid I'd always ask my mom: "Why don't we have a Kid's Day? We have a Mother's Day and a Father's Day, but why don't we have a Kid's Day?" My mom would always say, "Every day is Kid's Day." To all those heterosexuals that about gay pride, I say the same thing: Every day is heterosexual-pride day! Can't you people enjoy your banquet and not piss on those of us enjoying our crumbs over here in the corner?
~Rob Nash

15) If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered.
~Robin Tyler

16) 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 qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.
~Paul Newman

17) Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

18) It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
~Francis Maude

19) It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
~Lucille Ball

20) 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

21) 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 .
~Judy Carte

22) The world is not divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy 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 every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning sexual behavior the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.
~Alfred Kinsey in The Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, 1948

23) Anita Bryant like Anita hole in the head.
~Graffiti

24) Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
~Woody Allen

25) Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
~James Baldwin

26) God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
~William Shakespeare

27) Homophobia is a social disease.
~Lauren Bacall

28) Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
~Homer

29) Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.
~Sam Austin

30) If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
~Johann von Goethe

31) Love is a Beautiful thing and sex is a beautiful thing, so what is the problem?
~ Debora Harry

32) As long as society is anti-gay, then it will seem like being gay is anti-social.
~Joseph Francis

34) Closets are for clothes not people
~ Author Unknown

35) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
~Benjamin Disraeli

36) Homophobia is gay
~bumper sticker

37) Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
~Harvey Fierstein

38) One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness.
~Towards a Quaker View of Sex (1964)

39) Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons.~Letter to the editor, The Advocate

40) Straight Americans need... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.
~Bruce Bawer in The Advocate, 28 April 1998

41) The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick.
~Ronald Gold

42) The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.
~Rev. Troy Perry

43) The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.
~Dennis Miller

44) War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Famine. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the Southern Baptist Convention is protesting?
~The Value of Families

45) What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't.
~Ed Fallon

46) 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 from A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947

47) When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.~Leonard P. Matlovich

48) While many minority groups are the target for prejudice... and discrimination... in our society, few persons face this hostility without the support and acceptance of their family as do many gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth.~Virginia Uribe and Karen Harbeck

49) Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
~Ernest Gaines

50) You could move.
~Abigail Van Buren, "DEAR ABBY" In response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.



EXTRA QUOTE:

51) I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against gay people just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust.
~ Alexandro Molina in a anti-homophobia protest 2007.

[Fr_Chuck]

Yes, the world does fall for popular ideas, but of course popular ideas and having support does not make it right.

[margog85]

This was great- I've heard a lot of these before, some were new to me... thanks for posting it all in one place- I intend to share it!

[Wondergirl]

Here are some more from the pen of Jon-Henri Damski, Classics professor turned penniless gay columnist, chronicler of gay life in Chicago, died November 1, 1997, age 60:

Eros is what you do under the blanket.
Love is the blanket.

The mind opens doors the hand cannot reach.

How did I know I was gay? When I slept with her, I had me on my mind. When I slept with him, I had him on my mind.

Being civilized means wearing costumes but never uniforms.

Death is always sudden no matter how long you prepare.