“There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to his own vision, not to be some sort of common denominator or public relations man to all gay people.” PeopleMenFirstsCommonVisionGayRelationPressureEnormousObligationBeing TrueNovelistsGay PeoplePublic RelationsCommon DenominatorSpokespeople Author:Edmund White
“Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.” MenBlackCommonEconomicSecurityGayIndianBlanketGay MenEconomic Security Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“Suppose that there's a gene that makes you gay if you were bottle-fed but that has some completely different effect if you were breast-fed. So in the days before bottles were invented that gene would not have manifested itself as gay behavior, but now that bottles are common it can do so.” IfsDifferentCan DoCommonEffectsGayBehaviorBreastsFedsBottlesGenes Author:Richard Dawkins
“I'm also for gay marriage, because I say they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us. Love is bigger than government. And Texas, by the way, has a very progressive law about gay couples adopting kids. We just won't let them get married. So that's not common sense.” WayGovernmentKidsLawLove IsCommonCoupleGayMarriedBiggerCommon SenseMiserableProgressiveTexasGay MarriageAdoptingGay Couples Author:Kinky Friedman
“Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what they have in common.” ShowsCan DoInterestingCommonGayUnityTensionMost InterestingInteresting ThingsBreadth Author:Vestal McIntyre
“It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain.” PeopleMenWayImportantShowsCausesBornCommonMistakeBrainGayProveStressHomosexualityGay MenBeing GayInterpreting Author:Simon LeVay
“Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each other. In the wake of AIDS, gay people felt like they had to organize, become much more active and visible. AIDS fostered a gay rights movement that made gay people more powerful and more vulnerable at the same time.” PeopleMadeFeltPowerfulCommonRightsViolenceMovementGayActiveAidsVulnerableRelatedVisibleOrganizeGay RightsGay People Author:Dale Peck
“This is why the terrorists hate us. And it's not the glitter and it's not the pomp and circumstance. We've got black and white, we've got Hispanic and Asian, we got gay, straight, and Guttenberg, all working together for one common goal: to get the mirror ball. And the mirror ball doesn't care what color you are, and it doesn't care how rich your parents are, and it doesn't care what God you pray to. It's an even wooden floor, and may the best man or woman win. And I say God bless Dancing with the Stars, and God bless the USA.” MenMayCareTogetherHateWinningStarsParentGoalBlackWhiteCommonRichColorPrayingCircumstancesGayBallsMirrorsDancingTerroristUsaWorking TogetherBlessBlack And WhiteAsianGod BlessGlitterHispanicCommon GoalDancing With The Stars Author:Adam Carolla
“It's just in Washington we're talking about equal rights for gay people, civil liberty to smoke marijuana, taking care of the environment, and it's all just decency and common sense and patriotism. And in other parts of the country that would be, like, inconceivable.” PeopleCountryWould BeCareCommonTalkingLibertyEnvironmentRightsGayEqualCommon SenseSmokeMarijuanaDecencyEqual RightsCivil LibertiesGay People Author:Rick Steves
“The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the civil rights movement when I was a young boy in the South, the women's suffrage movement when my mother was a young woman in Tennessee, the abolition movement much farther back, and the anti-apartheid movement when I was in the House of Representatives. All of these movements have one thing in common: the opposition to progress was rooted in an outdated understanding of morality.” MotherHumanityHouseUnderstandingCommonBoysProgressVictoryMoralityGayTraditionCivil RightsYoung WomenCivil Rights MovementGay RightsAbolitionSuffrage Author:Al Gore
“There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.” LastsBeliefEnjoyCommonFictionCasesGayExpectationsEnjoymentSkeletonsGreat ExpectationsGreat Expectations Important Book:Great Expectations Source: Great Expectations
“We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.” PeopleGivingMindLittlesFunnyLastsBeliefEnjoyMoneyCommonFictionCasesConditionsGayExpectationsHumorousAspectMiserableAcquaintanceSkeletonsGreat ExpectationsGreat Expectations Important Book:Great Expectations Thrift Study Edition Source: Great Expectations Thrift Study Edition
“More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of 'family values' makes 'family values' look more and more like common bigotry.” LooksPoliticalValuesNamesJusticeViewsPartyCommonGayDiversitySocial JusticeRadicalBigotryTolerateRhetoricStereotypeHomosexualPolitical PartiesFringeFactionsFamily ValuesAntisocialDeviants Author:Jonathan Rauch