Homosexuality

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."

— Homosexuality sex

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."

— Homosexuality girls

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?"

— Homosexuality men

...here are some homosexuals whom we would do well to take seriously.

— Homosexuality sex

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.

— Homosexuality people

[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.

— Homosexuality men

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.

— Homosexuality sex

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

— Homosexuality sex

I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality ... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.

— Homosexuality sex

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.

— Homosexuality sex

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

— Homosexuality sex

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.

— Homosexuality women

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. 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.

— Homosexuality nature

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 continuum and attempted to make analyses with the help of fundamentally different concepts.

— Homosexuality art

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.

— Homosexuality sex

Loosen up. Being masculine doesn't mean being a statue. Wrists were made to bend.

— Homosexuality being

Before you criticize queens, fairies or someone who acts "too queer", consider where we'd be without them.

— Homosexuality you

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.

— Homosexuality relationships

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.

— Homosexuality sex

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.

— Homosexuality nature

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 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 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.

— Homosexuality nature

What do you mean, since when did I become such a radical fairy? Since I started knowing twits like you, you twit!

— Homosexuality art

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 Atl

— Homosexuality people

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.)

— Homosexuality people

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.

— Homosexuality sex

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.

— Homosexuality love

Dear Miss Manners: What should I say when I am introduced to a homosexual "couple"?

— Homosexuality sex

Gentle Reader: "How do you do?" "How do you do?"

— Homosexuality you

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.

— Homosexuality love

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.

— Homosexuality life

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

— Homosexuality rain

"You gotta give them hope."

— Homosexuality hope

Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.

— Homosexuality sex

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.

— Homosexuality sex

Bisexuality should be the norm...It's the cure for many problems. I don't believe in gay versus straight. The message of the gay liberation movement should have been freedom of sexuality, not antagonism toward sexuality other than gay sex. Most people are going to want to be straight, this is true, be cause most people breed, and nature wants us to breed. However, I believe in the liberation of all avenues of pleasure, and I want all straight people to have their options open without it implicating them. The impulses are there if they aren't repressed, so people should choose to live without those labels.

— Homosexuality war

I don't mind straight people as long as they act gay in public.

— Homosexuality people

If I was gay, there would be no closet, you would never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling by the time I was 12. Because I know with all certainty in my mind, there is nothing wrong with being gay, and you know it.

— Homosexuality time

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!

— Homosexuality love

We come out of our mothers naked; everything else is just drag!

— Homosexuality mother

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.

— Homosexuality women

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.

— Homosexuality sex

Butch (definition): Macho with a purse.

— Homosexuality wit

Closet (definition): Basement suite of a heterosexual outhouse.

— Homosexuality sex

Deviant (definition): A person who wanders from the One True Path and is caught urinating somewhere in the midst of the unthinkable. A person taking any exit ramp off the freeway of self-righteousness."

— Homosexuality self

Unnatural act (definition): Any everyday act not equally typical of cattle, sheep, and horses. Singing, smoking, and various heterosexual and homosexual acts are included.

— Homosexuality sex

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.

— Homosexuality people

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.

— Homosexuality time

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.

— Homosexuality art

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.

— Homosexuality women

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.

— Homosexuality sex

As long as they're homophobic behind closed doors, and don't hurt anyone, I'm fine with it.

— Homosexuality hurt

“As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.”

— Homosexuality sex

“If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters.”

— Homosexuality people

“If homosexuality was the normal way, God would have made Adam and Bruce"

— Homosexuality sex

Homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider not only immoral, but filthy.

— Homosexuality sex

It probably would be a lot cheaper to just exterminate male homosexuals.

— Homosexuality sex

Homosexuality is a crime against humanity.

— Homosexuality sex

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.

— Homosexuality change

The promotion of homosexuality would lead to the eventual destruction of the human race.

— Homosexuality sex

We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honor, and purity, to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling and trading with interest.

— Homosexuality people

I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral, and that we should not condone immoral acts.

— Homosexuality sex

The crime of sodomy is a crime against God and man and its practice is a terrible step to the total demoralization of any country and must inevitably lead to the breakdown of all decency within the province.

— Homosexuality man

2009 (p. 132).

— Homosexuality

If the widespread practice of homosexuality will bring about the destruction of your nation, if it will bring about terrorist bombs, if it'll bring about earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor, it isn't necessarily something we ought to open our arms to.

— Homosexuality art

Not arrested development or immaturity but deliberate and mature warfare against God marks the homosexual. God's penalty is death, and a godly order will enforce it.

— Homosexuality god

Encyclopedia of Right-Wing Extremism In Modern American History, ABC-CLIO, 2011 (p. 164).

— Homosexuality story

We are making legislation to make sure that sodomy and homosexuality never sees the light of legality in this land of the part of Africa.

— Homosexuality art

Love, golden-haired boy, tosses

— Homosexuality love

His purple ball to me one more time, Invites me to play With the girl in colourful sandals.

— Homosexuality time

But she's from towering Lesbos, And my hair, being white, She despises. She's gasping For another girl...

— Homosexuality girl

Coming toward them, on the path, were two glittering, loud-talking fairies....Ida said, "I always feel so sorry for people like that."

— Homosexuality war

Ellis grinned. "Why should you feel sorry for them? They've got each other."

— Homosexuality you

But the base philanderer

— Homosexuality

Ogled with another; So, of course, to despite her, I decided to transfer Affections to her brother.

— Homosexuality wit

If it be sin to love a lovely lad

— Homosexuality love

Oh there sin I.

— Homosexuality sin

And what is she (quoth he) whom thou do'st love?

— Homosexuality 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.

— Homosexuality self

My voice rings down through thousands of years

— Homosexuality voice

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.

— Homosexuality love

Iuventius, if I were always allowed

— Homosexuality

to kiss your honey-sweet eyes, I might kiss you three hundred thousand times, and never be sated.

— Homosexuality time

I believe the more you love a man,

— Homosexuality love

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...

— Homosexuality trust

A purple robe he wore, o'erwrought with gold

— Homosexuality wit

With the device of a great snake, whose breath Was a fiery flame: which when I did behold I fell a-weeping and I cried, "Sweet youth, Tell me why, sad and sighing, thou dost rove These pleasant realms? I pray thee speak me sooth What is thy name?" He said, "My name is Love." Then straight the first did turn himself to me And cried, "He lieth, for his name is Shame, But I am Love, and I was wont to be Alone in this fair garden, till he came Unasked by night; I am true Love, I fill The hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame." Then sighing said the other, "Have thy will, I am the Love that dare not speak its name."

— Homosexuality art

Puisqu'il faut choisir,

— Homosexuality

Sans contrefa

— Homosexuality

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.

— Homosexuality art

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.

— Homosexuality freedom

Kissing Agathon, I held my life on my lips.

— Homosexuality life

It wanted to pass over, poor thing, into him.

— Homosexuality poor

We two boys together clinging,

— Homosexuality boys

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