“We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of us, the gay ones especially, were eager to make a U-turn and fly back the other way. Whether or not the city was obsolete, we couldn’t imagine our personal futures in any other form. The street and the skyline signified to us what the lawn and the highway signified to our parents: a place to breathe free.” WayFirstsChildrenFormTurnsGrowsParentWhiteCitiesGrowing UpImagineGenerationsStreetsGayBreatheFlightHighwaysObsoleteSuburbsLawnsSkylines Author:Herbert Muschamp
“I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.” ThinkingShouldFormCommunityTypeGayGay Community Author:Cameron Monaghan
“This is more a personal quibble of mine, but why do you hate freedom? Why do you hate the fact that other people want a chance to live their lives and be happy, even though they may believe in something different than you, or act different than you? How does gay marriage, in any way shape or form, affect your life?” PeopleWayWantBelieveMayDoeDifferentFactsFormHateChanceMinesGayShapesGay Marriage Author:Chris Kluwe
“I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.” TodayFormHateGirlChurchFeminismGayI HateCatholicActivismHatedDogmaTroopsCatholic ChurchGirl Scout Author:Camille Paglia
“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
“I learned this one growing up in Texas and, subsequently, living in Los Angeles: always use the 'usted' form when speaking to a Spanish official. Mexican border patrol cops don't like it when you call them 'amigo,' give them a hardy pat on the back, slip a $20 in their pocket. No bueno, it doesn't fly. By the way, those of you not laughing at that obviously took French in high school, and that was a gay choice.” WayGivingUseSchoolFormChoicesLaughingGrowing UpGrowingGayHigh SchoolBordersOfficialsPocketsLos AngelesTexasSlipsCopMexicanHardyBorder PatrolMexican Border Author:Iliza Shlesinger
“The 20th century was a turning point; it freed and emancipated women, broke the back of segregation, and began the struggle to give justice to gay and lesbian people. But the Christian church, in both Catholic and Protestant forms, resisted every one of those humanizing developments. The church was on the wrong side of all three of those fights.” PeopleGivingChristianFormFightingThreeSidesChurchJusticeStruggleCenturyDevelopmentGayCatholicBroke20th CenturySegregationProtestantsTurning PointsChristian Church Author:John Shelby Spong
“I don't understand if the conservative movement says you can't be gay and conservative, and I'm straight, then I don't think I can abide by that form of conservatism.” IfsThinkingI CanFormMovementGayConservativeConservatism Author:Andrew Breitbart
“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
“There are a lot of people that form movements around particular commitments, like gay rights. It is important, but it does not link easily to, say, economic rights, and it often looks like it's opposed to them. The attempt to bring these together has yet to be done in a truly effective way, and I think it can be.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksDoeImportantDoneTogetherFormRightsEconomicMovementParticularGayCommitmentLinksGay Rights Author:Noam Chomsky
“Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.” FormFoundNamesGriefHonestGayCommitmentThreatCrueltyDesertBeing HonestIndifferenceManifestationNeglectAdulteryLovelessLoveless Marriage Author:Malcolm Turnbull
“Talk to strangers when the family fails and friends lead you astray when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out God is gay. 'Cause angels and messiahs love can come in many forms: in the hallways of your projects, or the fat girl in your dorm, and when you finally take the time to see what they’re about perhaps you find them lonely or their wisdom trips you out.” FormTurnsGirlJesusCausesLaughingFailingGayProjectsAngelLonelyStrangerFatsMessiahHallwaysDormsFat Girl Author:Saul Williams
“The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as that people of all races and creeds have equal rights, that women should be free from all forms of coercion, that children should never, ever be spanked, that students should be protected from bullying, and that there’s nothing wrong with being gay. I don’t find it at all implausible that these are gifts, in part, of a refined and widening application of reason.” PeopleShouldHumansChildrenReasonTodayFormGivenRaceRightsStudentsRevolutionGayEqualIdealsEducatedGrantedBullyingApplicationProtectedCreedsWomens RightsHuman HistoryEqual RightsCoercionRefinedUnprecedentedBeing Gay Author:Steven Pinker
“If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form.” IfsHelpingFormDifficultSupportGayShapesGay MarriageDifficult ThingsMarriage Equality Author:Will Smith
“You know, for me, the realization that two people should have the right to form a sacred union regardless of their gender was strengthened when I saw a performance of the play The Normal Heart in 1985. After feeling the love those two men had for each other, I dare anybody not to want them to get married by the end.” PeopleKnowsMenWantShouldHeartTwoEndsPlayFeelingsFormSawsGayNormalMarriedShould HavePerformancesSacredUnionsDareGenderRealizationGay Marriage Author:Barbra Streisand
“I'm really disturbed about the gay marriage thing. Because I think gay people should get married, cause it's their own business ... Because as a Black man, I think you've got to be against any form of discrimination.” PeopleThinkingMenShouldFormCausesBlackGayMarriedDiscriminationGay MarriageDisturbedGay PeopleOwn Business Author:Charles Barkley
“I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that's fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love” IfsBelieveImportantDifferentTogetherFormI BelieveNumbersSupportBrotherFineGayMarriedImportant ThingsBrothers And SistersGay MarriageBeing MarriedFinding Love Author:Cornel West