“What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.” PainDesireCultureGaySubversionGay Culture Author:Andrew Sullivan
“To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind of lifestyle is a call to holiness, a call to celibacy and integrity. Obviously, it is a capitulation toward one's desires and the sexual sins that the Bible so strongly condemns.” MindKindChristianDesireSinIntegrityGayLifestyleHolinessAbsentCelibacyCapitulation Author:Erwin W. Lutzer
“Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day!” ShowsFacesDesireGrowthPoorWindGaySpringRedMovedBlowWelcomeMarchSplendidSunnyLiliesStalkingRobinsSunny DayAttireWelcome Spring Book:Complete Poetical Works Source: Complete Poetical Works
“Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!” LoveFirstsPainYoungDesireFireSweetGayProveApproach Book:Sir Martin Mar-All. The tempest. An evening's love. Tyrannic love Source: Sir Martin Mar-All. The tempest. An evening's love. Tyrannic love
“Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is our own creation, and much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatality; it's a possibility for creative life. It's not enough to affirm that we are gay but we must also create a gay life.” WorldEnoughFormDesireSexSidesSecretCreativeCreationPossibilityGayBehaviorDiscoverySexualityOur WorldHomosexualityCreative LifeFatalityForms Of LoveGay Life Author:Michel Foucault
“In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.” PeopleIfsWantBookRealDesirePleasureInterestingPayWillingGaySaintReal LifeDullWickedSinnerGood LifeGood PeopleShort LifeWant To Be HappyOne For Me Author:Louisa May Alcott
“I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn’t know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, ‘Mom, I don’t like direct sunlight, I don’t like bugs, I don’t like grass, and I’d rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.’” KnowsMadeSaidPlayMotherDesireHouseInterestingBoysMomGayDirectBaseballGrassSunlightFabricBugsSample Author:Nate Berkus
“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
“It does seem to me, though, that there is a difference between the Mormon Church saying, "We don't accept gay people within the Church; we don't accept gay marriage within the Church; we don't accept people who act on their homosexual desires within the Church;" and trying to interfere with what happens outside of the Church. That seemed to me to be an abomination.” PeopleTryingDoeSeemsHappensDesireDifferencesChurchAcceptingGayInterfereHomosexualGay MarriageGay PeopleAbomination Author:Andrew Solomon
“I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school, I'm from gay liberation, we wanted to end war forever and smash the patriarchy and these are values I still hold dear but, I believe that any person who wants to get married should have that right and I know that Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people serve with distinction in the armed forces, and that when they are killed, supposedly serving our country in these wars, that I personally do not support, their partners back home do not receive death benefits.” PeopleKnowsWantShouldBelievePersonsStillsWarEndsCountryHomeWantedSchoolDesireValuesForceI BelieveSupportForeverGayBenefitsMarriedShould HaveSoldierDearPartnersOur CountryLiberationDistinctionServingPatriarchyBack HomeOld SchoolBisexualArmed ForcesPersonal DesireGay Liberation Author:Cleve Jones
“Maybe when the President tells you that you should be afraid of Mexicans or Muslims or Jews or black people or gay people or trans people, you'll realize that those are just labels, that underneath it all we're all the same people, we all have the same aspirations, the same hopes, the same desires, that we all share the same values.” PeopleShouldDesireValuesBlackPresidentRealizingShareGayJewLabelsAspirationBlack PeopleTransGay People Author:Reza Aslan
“Making photographs that dealt with the understanding of who I am as a gay man and dealt with the process of accepting that, and also accepting what I'm into sexually, what sexually arouses me. So I was making these images not necessarily knowing what they were about, but just putting it out there - that mode of thinking or consideration of my own desires, and also the much larger conversation around images that deal with ideas of sexuality and how those images are distributed and then accepted or understood by whoever is viewing those images.” ThinkingMenDesireUnderstandingAcceptingGayPhotographSexualityAcceptedConsiderationSexuallyGay Men Author:Wardell Milan
“The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifying of all human notions, love. That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the world's full octave. Love as Agape, Eros and Philos; love as infatuation, obsession and lust; love as torture, euphoria, ecstasy and oblivion (this is beginning to read like a Calvin Klein perfume catalogue); love as need, passion and desire.” WorldNeedsHumansIdeasDesirePassionFiveTerribleGayConceptsNotionEightGenderLustObsessionToneTortureEcstasyPerfumeOblivionInfatuationGoatsErosEuphoriaCataloguesAgapeMelonsHomophobesPassion And DesireLove Lust Author:Stephen Fry
“Every gay reader understands the secret self that is full and wonderful and has longing and tenderness and a desire for connection to other people. I think that arguments against gay marriage are just ridiculous! Who cares? People want to get married for the same reason I wanted to get married. They want to do it in front of their friends and family” PeopleThinkingWantSelfReasonCareWantedDesireSecretWonderfulFrontsReaderGayMarriedArgumentConnectionsLongingRidiculousTendernessFamily And FriendsWho CaresGay MarriageAgainst Gay Marriage Author:Lynda Carter
“When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people.” PeopleWantDesireWhiteResponsibilityGayEatingVoteTablesPrivilegeAfrican AmericanVotingLunchEntitledInvitedGay MarriageDesire To ChangeEating Out Author:Cynthia Nixon