Gay Culture Quotes

• Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

  Ernest Gaines

  Motivational, Respect, Integrity

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• Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or any gay person doing any gay thing, that was an insufficient display of pride. You were suffering from internalized homophobia. As opposed to external homophobia.

  Dan Savage

  Pride, Gay, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.

  Neil Tennant

  Sex, Moving, Gay

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gay, Thinking, Culture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In gay culture hookups are a way of escaping your class.

  Hank Azaria

  Gay, Escaping, Class

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings.

  Judy Grahn

  Gay, Culture, Sexuality

  Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”

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• I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Couple, Gay, Thinking

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• What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Pain, Gay, Desire

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• I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.

  Lady Gaga

  Inspirational, Gay, Want

  "Lady Gaga Is Nude, Wants To Turn The World Gay" By Katy Hall, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2010.

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• I feel that gay people not being able to get married for generations, forever, meant that we came up with alternative ways of recognizing relationships. And I worry that if everybody has access to the same institutions that we lose the creativity of subcultures having to make it on their own. And I like gay culture.

  Rachel Maddow

  Creativity, Gay, Worry

  "Rachel Maddow: How This Wonky-Tonk Woman Won TV". Interview with Marisa Guthrie, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

  Lance Loud

  Believe, Gay, Gauges

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• There's a whole gay culture in DC, and there are as many gay Republicans as there are gay Democrats.

  Kirby Dick

  Gay, Culture, Republican

  Source: therumpus.net

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