“I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.” PeopleThinkingMenHumansSufferingUnderstandingCreativeConditionsPossibilityParticularGayEmpathyActiveMutualHuman ConditionSolidarityHomophobiaGay Men Author:Adrienne Rich
“When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of that sort, that a gene for anything may not have been a gene for that thing under different environmental conditions.” MayHas BeensDifferentConditionsGayEnvironmentalAggressiveGenesBeing Gay Author:Richard Dawkins
“There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out by the most visible and well-funded lesbian and gay rights organizations in the US and those that seek to use grassroots strategies, center issues of race and poverty, and aim to dismantle harmful institutions and conditions to redistribute life chances.” WellsLooksDifferentUseChanceRacePovertyPathIssuesRightsConditionsGayModelsOrganizationAimInstitutionsStrategyVisibleCompetingTransGay RightsAdvocacyGrassroots Author:Dean Spade
“The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological minority variant in the human condition drives me crazy, far crazier than I am driven by any loud-mouthed purveyor of hateful nonsense.” KnowsHumansStrongChurchSilenceCrazyInfluenceConditionsPositionGayDrivenLoudNonsenseMinoritiesHuman ConditionSuspicionHatefulBeing GayDrive Me Crazy Author:James Alison
“My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate analogy is left-handedness, which also, as it happens, used to be regarded as some sort of defect in a normatively right-handed humanity.” HumansHappensUsedHumanityBeliefLeftMy OwnConditionsGayUsed To BeAppropriateMinoritiesHuman ConditionDefectsAnalogiesBeing Gay Author:James Alison
“The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires and try to ask myself how these feelings can be made into concrete images... Are they really abnormal, or are they trying to tell us something we have repressed about ourselves, something we don't want to see, something about the darker side of the human condition itself?” WantTryingHumansMadeFeelingsDreamLife IsDesireAsksSidesConditionsLonelinessGayFilledCrueltyHuman ConditionConcreteAbnormalRepressedDarker SideGay Life Author:Arthur Tress
“The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.” PeopleMeanSufferingSpeakBlackPoorConditionsBrotherTruth IsGayBlack PeopleTransgenderWidowsOrphan Author:Cornel West
“"Not being virulently and overtly racist against black people" and "treating gay people like human beings" are necessary conditions of greatness.” PeopleHumansBlackHuman BeingsConditionsGreatnessGayRacistBlack PeopleGay People Author:Mallory Ortberg
“I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.” ThinkingChildrenLongFeelingsGrowsGrowing UpConditionsGrewGayGrew UpTragedyMeaningfulLeaving MeHaving ChildrenLong Relationship Author:Andrew Solomon
“No matter whether you are black or white, man or woman, gay or straight, Christian, Muslim, or Jew, we all share the same emotions, the same human condition.” MenHumansMatterChristianBlackWhiteEmotionShareConditionsGayJewHuman ConditionWhite ManBlack Or White Author:James Blunt
“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