Homophobia Quotes

• I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.

  Morgan Freeman

  Hate, Scared, Phobia

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• Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

  Coretta Scott King

  Racism, People, Humanity

  Chicago Defender newspaper, April 01, 1998.

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• No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships the same as the coupling between a man and a woman.

  Orson Scott Card

  Sex, Couple, Men

  "Lionsgate Responds to Outcry over ENDER’S GAME Author Orson Scott Card’s Anti-Gay Comments" by Dave Trumbore, collider.com. July 12, 2013.

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• Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.

  Orson Scott Card

  Government, Law, Enemy

  "Orson Scott Card: State job is not to redefine marriage" by Orson Scott Card, www.deseretnews.com. July 24, 2008.

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• There is no such thing as homophobia. It is not a fear. It is you being an asshole.

  Morgan Freeman

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• Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now?

  Amber Rose

  Homosexuality, Found, Species

  Twitter post from May 6, 2012

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• No matter how quietly homophobia is whispered, it doesn't make it any less loud. You can't whisper hate.

  Leisha Hailey

  Hate, Matter, Loud

  "Leisha Hailey: It Was Just One Kiss on Southwest Flight" by Tim Nudd, people.com. September 28, 2011.

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• Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender role transformation (which is very common in a wide range of fauna). There is only one species on earth, however, which has exhibited homophobia or transphobia. And that is the species homo sapiens sapiens. Us. So let's not allow the foolish, ignorant or bigoted ever to use words like "natural."

  Stephen Fry

  Sex, Animal, Ignorant

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• Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Marriage, Gay, Lgbt Pride

  "Obama and Gay Marriage: Runaway Bride?". www.newyorker.com. June 30, 2011.

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• Humans who see something different than them want to hate it and tear it down. Britain had a government policy that allowed prejudice to destroy someone's life, and today there is still homophobia at home and elsewhere, like Russia or Greece. It's still a relevant discussion. While women have it better than the 1940s or '50s, sexism is still prevalent.

  Keira Knightley

  Hate, Home, Russia

  "TIFF 2014: Keira Knightley on sexism and spy games". Interview with Barry Hertz, www.macleans.ca. September 11, 2014.

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• I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it was a referendum on boys kissing... When homophobia trumps terrorism in America, wow. This country needs to get laid.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Kissing, Boys

  "Bill Maher: I'm Swiss". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it invented a pariah state, a leper colony for the incorrigible whose very existence, when tolerated openly, was admonition to all. We queers keep everyone straight as whores keep matrons virtuous.

  Kate Millett

  World, Homosexuality, States

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.97, University of Illinois Press

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• Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Men, Like You, Homosexuality

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• Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

  Hal Duncan

  Skins, Identity, Prejudice

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• A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

  Dan Savage

  Inspirational, Gay, People

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• There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.

  Orson Scott Card

  Couple, Gay, Needs

  "Lionsgate Responds to Outcry over ENDER’S GAME Author Orson Scott Card’s Anti-Gay Comments" by Dave Trumbore, collider.com. July 12, 2013.

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• Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fall, Kids, Gay

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.90, Random House

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• I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism or racism or homophobia or transphobia. That violence takes a life to transform or overcome. I don't think people should be spending their lives dealing with that. I think people should be thriving, playing, creating, evolving.

  Eve Ensler

  Children, Thinking, Creating

  Source: bknation.org

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• Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Hatred

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.

  Audre Lorde

  Real, Games, Differences

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• We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is the same with homosexuality. The orientation is a given, not a matter of choice. It would be crazy for someone to choose to be gay, given the homophobia that is present.

  Desmond Tutu

  Crazy, Gay, Choices

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• The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Realizing, Justified, Sad Truth

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• Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

  Sandra Bullock

  Racism, Nazi, Sexism

  "Bullock filing for divorce, reveals she has baby" by Courtney Hazlett, www.today.com. April 28, 2010.

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• There are more scriptural reasons to oppose homophobia than to oppose homosexuality.

  John B. Cobb

  Reason, Homosexuality

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• You just can't say lesbianism hurts women's golf. It's more correct to say homophobia does.

  Donna Lopiano

  Hurt, Gay, Golf

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