“Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.” ThinkingWorldGivingShouldShowsMightTurnsNationsSidesPleasureFieldsThis WorldSorrowGayBattleDiseaseOceanDiversityBallsCourtPrisonNotionStrangerTyrannyHospitalsOperaShould IDistressCrowdedFaminePestilenceDebtors Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“I'm wildly impressed with the diversity of gay roles.” RolesGayDiversityImpressed Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.” PeopleMenKindShowsAmericaUsedLostForcePresidentRightsAirFashionTvsGayDiversityFemaleCrossesFolksVicesAll KindsUsed To BeRadicalDesignerHostPilotsPakistanTransTalibanVice PresidentAdvocatingFashion DesignerAir ForceTalk ShowsFlamboyant Author:Mohsin Hamid
“For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.” PeopleLongStillsAmericaBlackViolenceGayDiversityOvercomingDiscriminationAsianHispanic Author:Ron Kind
“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
“Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing.” HumansSoulJusticeSilencePossibilityGayDiversitySocial JusticeKillingFlyingRisingExplorationBeing HumanDiminishShrinksShrinkingWithering Author:Marlon Riggs
“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
“Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.” IfsWorldIdeasWould BeBlackDifferencesJusticeWhitePerfectImagineRepublicanGayEqualDiversitySocial JusticeDemocratBoringToleranceTallBrotherhoodAppreciatedUnity In DiversityA Perfect WorldBlack WhiteBoring Life Author:Barbra Streisand
“Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.” HumansDoeReligiousRightsGayDiversityHuman RightsMinoritiesLgbtBeing A WomanGay Rights Author:Hillary Clinton
“Since I was born I remember my dad and my mom always embracing diversity and differences among people and that being the core of America and happiness and all those different things. And that goes along with equality and you should treat everybody equal and be fair and not judge people and dislike people because they are different, and embrace and enjoy people because of the differences they have.” PeopleShouldDifferentAmericaRememberEnjoyBornDifferencesJudgingMomDadGayEqualDiversityFairsTreatsEmbraceMy DadMy MomCoreDifferent ThingsDislikeGay Marriage Author:Connor Barwin