“Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and crooks; who never spoke English; was not an American citizen; anti-capitalism; totally anti-death penalty; anti-public prayer (Matthew 6:5); but never once anti-gay; didn't mention abortion; and was a long-haired, brown-skinned, homeless, middle-eastern, Jew?” WantLongGuyPrayerMiddleCitizensGayCapitalismVoteJewViolentPeacefulRadicalRevolutionaryAbortionBrownSpokesHungPenaltiesHomelessEasternDeath PenaltyAmerican CitizensMatthewCrooksNon ViolentLeperAnti Gay Author:John Fugelsang
“Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda.” GamesGayThreatInternationalTerrorismFocusedCampaignsPropagandaPutinAnti GaySochi Author:George Packer
“If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of them, ‘No, you stay home tonight, you won’t be welcome’/ because I’m going to an all-white party where I can be gay but not Black / Or I’m going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are anti-homosexual / or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me / The day all the different parts of me can come along / we would have what I would call / a revolution” IfsI CanDifferentHomeReadingBlackWhitePartyHalfSituationPoetRevolutionGayWelcomeIf I CouldTonightBlack PeopleHomosexualityHomosexualGay PrideLesbianismAnti GayAnti DiscriminationPoetry Reading Author:Pat Parker
“Indiana's governor is coming under fire for a new law that some people feel is anti-gay. The governor now says he is not anti-gay. Then immediately afterwards he said, 'April Fools.' It wasn't his best joke.” PeopleFeelsSaidLawFireFoolGayJokesGovernorsAprilIndianaApril FoolsAnti Gay Author:Conan O'Brien
“Christianity is seen by more and more people as a negative message: anti gay, anti immigrant, anti abortion (as the only life issue), anti gay marriage, anti the Democratic party.” PeoplePartyChristianityIssuesGayMessagesNegativeDemocraticAbortionImmigrantsGay MarriageDemocratic PartyAnti AbortionAnti Gay Author:Richard Rohr
“Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.” MadeGayAgendasActivistCommentaryAnti Gay Author:Laura Schlessinger
“There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.” GroupsGayWingsActiveIronyAlsRight WingAl QaedaAnti Gay Author:Barney Frank
“The Supreme Court had the choice not only which way to rule, pro- or anti-gay marriage rights, but also how they were going to rule. They could have ruled just federalism, saying, "This isn't a matter for federal; this isn't a federal issue at all. States should decide it." Or they could decide it on equal protection grounds and say that, "Gay discrimination is wrong."” WayShouldMatterStatesChoicesIssuesRightsGayEqualCourtProtectionSupremeDiscriminationSupreme CourtGay MarriageFederalismAnti GayAll StateEqual Protection Author:Barack Obama
“Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.” GivingChurchGayLicenseRemarksThugAnti Gay Author:Ian Mckellen
“Someone sent an email to Reverend Joanna Watson [an American missionary] saying that I'm gay, and she sent it to all the anti-gay pastors in Uganda. One of them said, "We're going to take care of this guy." When I was confronted by them I didn't know what they were going to do, but they decided to pray over me. They said they were going to cure me. That didn't work, of course.” KnowsSaidCareGuyCoursesPrayingGayDecidedTake CareCuresMissionaryThey SaidPastorEmailThis GuyWatsonUgandaReverendsAnti Gay Author:Roger Ross Williams
“People have to stop saying that just because someone is an anti-gay activist they might be gay. They're DEFINITELY GAY!!” PeopleMightGayActivistAnti Gay Author:Bill Maher
“I got the bad press and the blogging and the email threats because people really didn't understand. They thought I was anti-gay. That's not true at all. My spiritual mom has a gay son. Even he was telling his friends "No, that's not true. She's so accepting of me." That doesn't mean I accept his lifestyle. It means I accept him as a human person and as a creation of God and a person of value.” PeopleHumansMeanPersonsSpiritualValuesAcceptingCreationSonMomGayPressesThreatLifestyleEmailBloggingAnti GayBad PressGay Son Author:Patricia Mauceri
“I'm totally changed. I've been emancipated from all this Republican dogma. Whether it's being anti-immigration, being-anti gay, being militaristic and wanting to engage in all these military interventions across the planet. That's all absurd.” MilitaryChangedPlanetsRepublicanGayImmigrationAbsurdDogmaInterventionAnti GayMilitary Intervention Author:Thomas Ravenel
“If anti-gay stuff is always coming out of your mouth, something very gay is probably going in.” IfsStuffGayMouthsComing OutAnti Gay Author:Bill Maher
“We in the Jewish community are comparatively lucky. All of traditions have anti-gay pieces but the Jewish tradition doesn't have as many anti-sexuality and anti-body teachings. It's a lot easier to fit affirmation of sexuality and gender.” BodyCommunityPiecesTeachingFitEasierGayLuckyTraditionGenderSexualityAffirmationJewish CommunityAnti GayJewish Tradition Author:Jay Michaelson
“To stop challenging someone from using anti-gay language simply because they persist in using anti-gay language strikes me as a defeatist approach.” LanguageChallengesGayApproachStrikesPersistAnti Gay Author:Mallory Ortberg
“I think dragging someone out of the closet who isn't necessarily engaged in anti-gay activities can have a destructive effect on them and on us. I don't want unwilling gay people advocating on my behalf; I think that's a challenge.” PeopleThinkingWantChallengesEffectsGayActivityEngagedDestructiveClosetsBehalfWant UUnwillingGay PeopleAdvocatingAnti Gay Author:Christopher Rice
“I look at American Christianity and I'm almost in despair. I don't want to be identified with it. The Christian vote in America is an anti-abortion, anti-homosexual vote. I consider that to be anti-female and anti-gay, and I don't want to be identified with a God who is anti-anything.” WantLooksChristianAmericaChristianityGayDespairFemaleVoteAbortionHomosexualAnti AbortionAnti Gay Author:John Shelby Spong
“The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.” HateDoubtGroupsBecomingGaySpeechSpeedTraditionalNo DoubtGay MarriageSpinningAmerican LifeHate SpeechAnti Gay Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If these people were honest, they would have to admit that the Bible is also pro - slavery and anti - women.” PeopleIfsReligionAcceptingHonestGayCatholicSlaveryDefinitionsConservativeJournalistSecularProtestantsEvangelicalRoman CatholicAnti GayPro Slavery Author:John Shelby Spong