“the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.” PeopleChildrenLightEyeNationsMemoriesFictionExampleParticularHabitGayWineDancingProfoundObviousAnalysisRootedPoliteGeographyGreat NationsPublic EyeEssayists Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin
“Words can mean different things to different people. It is important to understand what people mean when they use a certain word. Let's make an example. Take the word gay. Fifty years ago, gay meant exclusively cheerfulness, lighthearted excitement, merry or bright colors. Today this word has a different meaning. You won't call a cheerful person gay because it could be understood as something else.” PeopleYearsMeanPersonsImportantDifferentUseTodayCertainExampleColorGayUnderstoodYears AgoExcitementFiftyDifferent ThingsCheerfulDifferent PeoplesMerryCheerfulnessDifferent MeaningsBright Colors Author:Ali Sina
“Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories” Has BeensMadeExampleTheoryDramaGayConcernGolfNineTaxationLivelySmallpoxGaudy Book:Prejudices: Third Series Source: Prejudices: Third Series
“We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the AIDS epidemic came along that so many would die, because it was gay people dying. And what emerged was a grassroots movement that developed, and succeeded in getting things done. The pinpointing of that movement evolved into the changes that we have today.” PeopleEndsDoneTodayDiesSocialDyingExampleMovementBabyGayAidsSocial ChangeThings DoneEpidemicsGay PeopleGrassrootsGetting Things DoneBoomersBaby BoomerPeople DyingAids EpidemicGrassroots Movements Author:Todd Haynes
“People like Sean Penn, he is someone that is politically progressive and yet is still at the top of his game in the industry. So I love that he is out there just virtually shaming all the people that voted for Prop 8. He was a really great example of a straight ally, someone who used his talent and used his ability to further our cause, not just for political progressiveness but also specifically for gay marriage and specifically for Harvey Milk's entire life.” PeopleStillsPoliticalUsedGamesCausesAbilityTalentExampleIndustryGayProgressiveAlliesMilkReally GreatGay MarriagePropsSeanHarvey Author:Margaret Cho
“So often, I have seen really, really talented performers never quite relating to material. I mean, there's a lot of gay actors, for example, that are obviously gay. They're not going to be able to do some of the material. Some of them they can, some of them they can't.” MeanAbleActorsExampleMaterialsGayPerformersNever Quit Author:Julie Halston
“I found out - the paper used to go to bed on Tues - on Monday. I found out that on Monday nights, the editors would cut out - literally cut out passages, sometimes whole paragraphs, of some of the writers that might possibly offend blacks, lesbians, gays, radicals. And I wrote a couple of columns about that. And they're - of course, they were annoyed that I had written about it, but, I mean, it - another example - and [my wife Margot] always also conjured that.” MeanSometimesWholeMightUsedNightCoursesFoundCuttingWifeWrittenExampleCoupleGayBedPaperMy WifeRadicalEditorsPassagesMondayColumnsAnnoyedParagraphMonday Night Author:Nat Hentoff
“A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of being entranced by the visual spectacle, and then also the very graphic forms of public mourning for exemplary citizens (taking place at the same time as the refusal to mourn the undocumented, the foreign, gay and lesbian lives lost there, for example). I am not sure that the guilt over the pleasure re-installed the good citizen.” KindDifferentFormFallLostPleasureSeeingExampleCitizensGayGuiltAll TimeNot SureMourningVisualsDifferent KindsTowersRefusalMournGraphicAftermathGood CitizenExemplary Author:Judith Butler
“I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.” CareersRichExampleGayContinuingRich LifeContinuing On Author:Portia de Rossi
“Now if you're not „hot”, you are expected to work on it until you are. It's like when you renovate a house and you're legally required to leave just one of the original walls standing. If you don't have a good body you have down to a neutral shape, then bolt on some breast implants, replace your teeth, dye you hair, and call yourself the Playmate of the Year. How do we survive this? How do we teach our daughters and our gay sons that they are good enough the way they are? We have to lead by example.” IfsWayYearsEnoughBodyHouseTeachExampleSonHairWallGayShapesDaughterStandingHotOriginalsExpectedTeethJust OneBreastsGood EnoughBoltsOur DaughterImplantsBreast ImplantsGay Son Author:Tina Fey