“She had me at Sweet Valley High. Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and lighthearted sister-girl, between despair and optimism, between good and bad. . . . How can you help but love her?” HelpingCultureGirlSeriousSweetGayDespairCrossesOptimismCriticsPopsConsumersBordersValleysAcademicGood And BadPop Culture Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“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
“When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to or for myself, I knew that I was gay - I think, "Oh, if someone then could have shown me just an hour in the life that I have now, I would have made it through all of that misery and despair just fine." The pain lay in thinking that I had a desolate future.” IfsThinkingMadeFactsPainRememberTermHoursFineGayDespairLaysMiseryUnhappyMade ItAdolescenceDesolate Author:Andrew Solomon
“Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and despair. But that's one of the things that connects this climate movement to the previous great moral revolutions, like the civil rights movement and more recently the gay rights movement. So those who feel despair should be of good cheer, as the Bible says. Have faith, have hope. We are going to win this.” WinningMoralStruggleRevolutionGayDespairCrisisCivil RightsCheerHave FaithCivil Rights MovementGay RightsHaving HopeHope And DespairGood Cheer Author:Al Gore
“It is becoming a bad dream-- in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can't get at him, I mustn't show anything, must remain gay while I'm really in despair.” WellsShowsDreamNightBecomingGayDespairDaytimeBad Dream Book:The diary of a young girl Source: The diary of a young girl
“As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely.” MenShouldTryingEnergyJusticeMilitaryGayDespairDiversitySocial JusticeLifelongGay MenPacifistQuaker Author:Ned Rorem