“I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it. We are a people who declared that we are all created equal - and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.” PeopleWellsCountryLawDecisionClassCoupleGayEqualCourtCommittedDefenseStrikesSupremeDiscriminationCommitTreatedOur CountrySupreme CourtBetter OffIn-laws Author:Barack Obama
“The mayor of Sochi is now saying that there are no gay people in Sochi. So the only thing that is flaming over there now is the Olympic torch.” PeoplePoliticsCommunityLeadershipClassComedyHuman NatureGayEqualEthicsHuman RightsIndividualityIdeologyEqual RightsMayorsTorchesGay PeoplePartisanshipSochi Author:David Letterman
“By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for me. I came out of the free-swinging '60s and '70s. It was free love, baby. That was it. We had very liberal sex-ed classes in 1973, a yearlong environmental science class, and then Women's Lib and Gay Liberation. So it's insane to go from that to Reagan and AIDS. It was like, "What happened? Where's my future?"” IdeasAgeSexClassGenerationsHappenedModernBabyGaySafeEnvironmentalAidsInsaneLiberationComing Of AgeMy FutureSexuallyFree LoveScience ClassGay LiberationEnvironmental Science Author:Michael Stipe
“Less racist now but it has been. I don't think it's been completely stamped out. There's a class element to it. And who's supposed to do what. You're very unlikely to get a gay grip.” ThinkingHas BeensClassGayElementsRacistUnlikely Author:Colin Firth
“I still come from a very working-class family. My mother's still a cleaner. And my brother is the gas man. And my other brother runs a cab. I have become a stratified, different, exotic beast, even more so than I was when I was a young gay man. I just sort of built on that. Now that I've made several films, I don't even know how to placate them with money like so many people do with their families.” PeopleKnowsMenMadeStillsDifferentRunningFilmYoungMotherClassKnow HowBrotherGayBuiltMy BrotherBeastGasWorking ClassExoticCleanersGay MenCab Author:Duncan Roy
“Brighton has two universities. It's got a massive young, middle-class community, and the largest gay community in the UK. The result of which is a huge recreational drug market. It's the favoured place to live in the UK for first division criminals.” FirstsTwoYoungCommunityResultsClassMiddleHugeGayDrugUniversityCriminalsMiddle ClassMassiveDivisionPlaces To LiveGay CommunityBrightonRecreational Drugs Author:Peter James
“Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have still not achieved equality among all humans. And nonhuman animals continue to be chattel property without any inherent value.” PeopleYearsHumansStillsTwoValuesNationsAnimalClassChangedColorKingsCitizensGayPropertyTreatedInequalityFortyTwo YearsInherentWomens RightsDrsThings Have ChangedSecond Class Citizens Author:Gary L. Francione
“Unfortunately, we don't have the option of marriage in our country. We could go to Britain or Spain or Argentina and do something symbolic, but that's not what I want. I want to have the rights of anybody else in my home country. I don't want to be a second-class citizen” WantCountryHomeClassRightsCitizensGayOur CountryBritainSpainGay MarriageSymbolicArgentinaSecond Class CitizensHome Country Author:Dick Cheney
“It's about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote. This is something we should do now.” ShouldFirstsSimpleClassGayVoteCitizenshipJerseyGay MarriageNew JerseyFirst ClassPlain And SimplePopular Vote Author:Cory Booker