Homosexuality Quotes - Page 14

• Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Plato, Believe, Book

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• Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the questioning of friends and co-workers, the searches of barracks for magazines and letters, the witch hunts.

  Anna Quindlen

  Honesty, Doe, Magazines

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• . . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last. In my experience, they want no real representations of homosexuality, they want no complexity, they are terrified of ambiguity and unanswered questions - they don't know what they want, except that they want to make lots of money. The only freedom I've ever had as an artist has been in the theatre.

  Craig Lucas

  Couple, Real, Artist

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• Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.

  Dorothy Parker

  People, Use, These Days

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Oscars, Suing

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• A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

  E. O. Wilson

  Harm

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• I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.

  Zadie Smith

  Fun, Believe, Heterosexuality

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.238, Vintage

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• The marketing of homosexuality has an agenda, and that is to repopulate their population by recruiting the children of homosexuals.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  Children, Marketing, Insane

  "Gordon Klingenschmitt, Former Navy Chaplain, Slams Obama’s Gay Marriage Stance", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.

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• These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength. … It's the wicked Jews, the false Jews, that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality. It's the wicked Jews, false Jews, that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!

  Louis Farrakhan

  People, Wicked, Hollywood

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

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• In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. What a homosexual loves, as if it were his lover, his country, his art, his land, is homosexuality.

  Marguerite Duras

  Country, Art, Passion

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.35, Grove Press

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• We think that we live in a heterosexual society because most men are fixated on women as sexual objects; but, in fact, we live ina homosexual society because all credible transactions of power, authority, and authenticity take place among men; all transactions based on equity and individuality take place among men. Men are real; therefore, all real relationship is between men; all real communication is between men; all real reciprocity is between men; all real mutuality is between men.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Real, Communication, Men

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• I used to be gay, but I was forced to give it up, because it made my eyes water.

  Michael Gambon

  Eye, Gay, Giving

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• If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their fellows to think and behave according to the pattern that may fit the law-maker, or the imaginary ideals for which the legislation was fashioned, but which are ill-shaped for all real individuals who try to live under them.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• I will not agree to have this bill [to repeal DADT ] go forward, because our economy is in the tank.

  John McCain

  Tanks, Bills, Economy

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• Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

  Samuel Butler

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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• My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.

  Andrew Marvell

  Vegetables, Empires, Sexuality

  "To His Coy Mistress" l. 7 (1681)

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• The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

  Denis Diderot

  People, Lovers, Sexuality

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• Methodologically speaking, the rejection by [John] Boswell of the categorical opposition between homosexual and heterosexual, which plays such a significant role in the way our culture conceives of homosexuality, represents an advance not only in scholarship but in cultural criticism as well.

  Michel Foucault

  Play, Rejection, Criticism

  Source: www.questia.com

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• Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.

  Rachel Maddow

  Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Stds

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• On the level of investigative results, John Boswell's methodology has led to the discovery that what has been called the repression of homosexuality does not date back to Christianity properly speaking, but developed within the Christian era at a much later date. In this type of analysis it is important to be aware of the way in which people conceived of their own sexuality.

  Michel Foucault

  Christian, Discovery, People

  Source: www.questia.com

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• Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Long Ago

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• Being gay is harder than being black. I didn't have to come out black. I didn't have to tell my parents about what its like to be black.

  Wanda Sykes

  Gay, Parent, Black

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• The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the origin of homosexuality, no serious scientist today suggests that a simple cause-effect relationship applies.

  William H. Masters

  Gay, Simple, Today

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• Homosexuality has been around since humanity began and different societies at different times have reacted in a different manner.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Humanity, Different, Has Beens

  Source: www.flavourmag.co.uk

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• Nobody in the scientific or medical world thinks that homosexuality is something that people choose. It's something we are. Now, I didn't choose to be heterosexual. I just woke up when I was about twelve years old and girls didn't look obnoxious to me any longer, but I didn't make a choice about the matter. I just responded to my own hormones.

  John Shelby Spong

  Girl, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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