“The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide conceals the fact that homosexuals are a group of medically stigmatized and socially persecuted individuals. ... Their anguished cries of protest are drowned out by the rhetoric of therapy just as the rhetoric of salvation drowned out the [cries] of heretics.” FactsIndividualGroupsCryDrugDiseaseConceptsSuicideSalvationAddictionIllnessMental IllnessTherapyProtestRhetoricHomosexualityHomosexualAlcoholismDrug AddictionHereticDrug AddictPersecuted Book:The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement
“The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.” WellsChurchAttitudeKnownDiseaseCatholicTreatedHomosexualityWell KnownCatholic ChurchUnnatural Author:Malgorzata Szumowska
“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.” IfsDoeFactsFallIndividualBoysJourneyGayDiseaseFalling In LoveLgbtHomosexualityHomosexualOrientationGay RightsBeing GayGay PrideLgbt Pride Author:James A. Baldwin
“Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.” PoliticianDiseaseSexualityPregnancyHomosexualitySexuallyDeliveryAbstinenceStdsSexually Transmitted Diseases Author:Rachel Maddow
“Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.” GuyTermDiseaseSexualityHomosexualityTabooAdministrators Author:Richard Serra
“If your definition of homosexuality is being able to do whatever you want to, and that you should be able to go and engage in sex with another person, and that because of that, the disease you have is going to spread to that person and they're going to take it home and give it to their wife, how much tolerance should we have for that? We should have zero tolerance for that.” IfsWantGivingShouldPersonsHomeAbleSexWifeGayDiseaseDefinitionsSpreadToleranceZeroHomosexualityDo Whatever You WantZero Tolerance Author:Scott Lively