“In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement - the number restriction (two and only two) - is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.” PeopleIfsYearsFirstsTwoChoicesIndividualNumbersRightsGayYears AgoOppositesPrejudiceUnionsGenderTraditionalDefinedDenialLogicalRequirementsEssaysArbitraryGay MarriageRestrictionGay RightsExclusionPolygamyAutonomousTraditional MarriageIndividual Choice Author:Charles Krauthammer
“There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.” KindCertainValuesOrderChoicesCasesViolenceSubjectsMovementExpressionProductsGayCapitalismGenderSexualityLifestyleTendenciesConventionsConventionalUniformsCommodityHostilityParadigmFetishDisapprovalCapitulationLifestyle ChoicesGender And Sexuality Author:Bruce LaBruce
“Unfortunately I'm still straight. But who knows, life is complicated and maybe I'll wake up gay tomorrow! Here's hoping. And congratulations to everyone who lives in a place where they can marry the person they love, regardless of gender!” KnowsPersonsStillsLife IsTomorrowGayWake UpComplicatedGenderCongratulationsLife Is Complicated Author:Moby
“I love my gay brothers. I love my lesbian sisters. I love my transvestite, my gender-bending folk. For me, it's a matter of embracing their humanity, allowing them to choose in such a way that they are in the driver's seat regarding their lives.” WayMatterHumanityBrotherGayFolksGenderSeatsDriversAllowingBendingTransvestites Author:Cornel West
“Masters points out that the heterosexuals were at a disadvantage, as they do not benefit from what he called “gender empathy”. Doing unto your partner as you would do unto yourself only works well when you're gay.” WellsMastersGayBenefitsEmpathyGenderPartnersDisadvantages Book:Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex Source: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
“Everybody deserves fair treatment, equal treatment in the eyes of the law and the state. And that includes gays, lesbians, transgender persons. I am not a fan of discrimination and bullying of anybody on the basis of race, on the basis of religion, on the basis of sexual orientation or gender. This is actually part and parcel of the agenda that's also going to be front and centre, and that is how are we treating women and girls.” PersonsStatesEyeLawGirlRaceFansFrontsGayEqualDeserveFairsBasesGenderDiscriminationTreatmentAgendasBullyingCentreTransgenderOrientationParcelEqual Treatment Author:Barack Obama
“What I love about what I do is expanding people's minds on the topics of gender expression, gay rights, and most of all, entertaining them while I do it.” PeopleMindRightsExpressionGayGenderEntertainingTopicsExpandingGay Rights Author:Jinkx Monsoon
“Both bisexuality and transgender are fluid notions of identity, while lesbian and gay are fixed identities. Some people believe that means there should be two movements: LG and BT. But then what're ya gonna do about SM players? And intersexed folks who want their own I in the alphabet soup of sex and gender related politics?” PeopleWantShouldBelieveMeanTwoSexPlayerMovementIdentityGayNotionFolksGenderFixedRelatedSoupTransgenderFluidAlphabetBisexualitySmsAlphabet SoupSex And Gender Author:Kate Bornstein
“We had the fun of being outlaws. But there's a whole generation now coming up with new gender identities. For this generation of kids who don't think that being gay is anything special, they might be more interesting than any of us.” ThinkingWholeMightKidsFunInterestingGenerationsSpecialIdentityGayGenderOutlawThis GenerationBeing GayGender Identity Author:Dale Peck
“It's hard to tell these days what gender people are. You don't know if they're gay, if they're straight, or Bruce Jenner.” PeopleIfsKnowsHardGayGenderThese Days Author:Chelsea Handler
“How about we get rid of separate bathrooms for boys and girls? Gays and straights share the bathroom with zero issues. We need to put an end to the sexist pooping policies of yesterday. The only way to achieve gender equality is to start crapping in front of each other.” WayNeedsEndsGirlBoysIssuesShareAchieveFrontsPolicyGayGenderYesterdayZeroBathroomGender EqualitySexistBoy And Girl Author:Daniel Tosh
“We in the Jewish community are comparatively lucky. All of traditions have anti-gay pieces but the Jewish tradition doesn't have as many anti-sexuality and anti-body teachings. It's a lot easier to fit affirmation of sexuality and gender.” BodyCommunityPiecesTeachingFitEasierGayLuckyTraditionGenderSexualityAffirmationJewish CommunityAnti GayJewish Tradition Author:Jay Michaelson
“The only thing I have going on at a personal level is just the way I knew I was gay and I knew what that meant inside me, but the gender aspect of who I am came later.” WayLevelsGayAspectGenderWho I Am Author:Amy Ray
“If you find yourself in a relationship or even a friendship with someone who's conflicted with their gender identity, just be kind. This is not a life choice. This is something that you are born with. This is like being born with a gene for being tall, short, black, white, gay, straight - it's not a choice.” IfsKindChoicesBlackBornWhiteIdentityGayGenderFinding YourselfTallBe KindGenesLife ChoicesGender IdentityBlack White Author:Linda D. Thompson
“Cross-dressing is more of a set of actions or behaviors and not synonymous with gender identity (straight, gay, bisexual, transgender, among others).” ActionIdentityGayBehaviorCrossesGenderDressingsTransgenderBisexualGender Identity Author:Steven Petrow
“I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.” PeopleThinkingIssuesGayConversationGenderSexualityGender Issues Author:Pam Grier
“I feel dance and pop music genres are extremely female and extremely gay. When it comes to art and pop culture, queers are f - king weirdos. We don't have gender rules that tell us what we can and can't be. We just make it up as we go along. We have full creative license to be whatever we want to be.” ArtCultureCreativeGayFemaleGenderPop CulturePop MusicWeirdo Author:Beth Ditto
“We had so many milestones in America. We were on our way to universal healthcare. We had gay marriage. We were talking about gender fluidity and trans issues openly and discussing them with respect. It was almost to the point where educating people about transgender rights wasn't an issue. We were including trans people as a normal part of our conversations instead of seeing their presence as this shocking thing to the system. We forgot that those things can be taken away from you because there are people in the world that, for whatever f - king reason, can't live and let live.” PeopleWorldReasonTakenGayGenderHealthcareGay MarriageTransgenderMilestoneLive And Let Live Author:Beth Ditto
“We must never allow demagogues to divide us up by race, by religion, by national origin, by gender, or sexual orientation. Black and whites, Latino, Asian-American, Native American, Christian, Jew, Muslim, and every religion - straight or gay, male or female - we must stand together. This country belongs to all of us.” CountryChristianTogetherBlackGayFemaleJewGenderNativeBlack And WhiteNative AmericanLatino Author:Bernie Sanders
“Regarding gay and music, I don't actually think my music is particularly gay at all, because my music doesn't have sex with men. My music does not have a gender, I don't see it as being gay.” ThinkingMenGayMusic IsGenderBeing Gay Author:Owen Pallett
“Being called gay is worse than transgender. I remember when I started fighting way back in 1999 for hijas' rights, and I said the state doesn't have the right to use my gender to club me into "gay." If I say I am not a man then who are you to question it? Being called gay or a man really upsets me.” MenRememberFightingGayGenderUpsetRemember WhenTransgender Author:Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
“What is fabulous about gay marriage is that it redefines the gender designated jobs, then you throw in transgender and you don't just have the five primary colors of the crayons. We have to really look at what it means to be a man or a woman in a much more generous and creative way.” MenMeanCreativeGayGenderGenerousFabulousGay MarriageTransgenderCrayon Author:Susan Sarandon
“Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact.” WorldFactsMotherPerfectCitiesGrowing UpIssuesWifeGrowingBrotherPerspectiveProudGayGenderParadiseLakesSaltUtahWives And MothersYounger SisterGender IssuesSalt Lake City Book:Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm Source: Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm
“If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.” IfsPersonsReligiousRightsIdentityColorGaySkinsDenyGenderSexualityAccessSecularHomosexualityHomosexualSacramentsCrowJim CrowSkin Color Author:Jon Meacham
“I don’t think God has a gender. I don’t think God hates gays or Democrats, and I don’t think you have to be Born Again to find your way to Heaven. I believe God expects us to care for one another, even those who are different. God wants us to be good stewards of this planet, and that means not wasting or violating its resources. Most of all, it means not blowing it up. Especially not in God’s name.” ThinkingWayWantBelieveMeanDifferentCareHateNamesI BelieveHeavenBornPlanetsGayResourcesDemocratGenderBe GoodBelieve In GodBorn AgainStewardsBlowing ItDifferent Gods Author:Ellen Hopkins
“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
“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
“Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of gender distinctions in society.” DesignGayGenderPsychologicalDistinctionDisorderHomosexualityThreateningPurpleMenacePsychiatricPsychiatric Disorders Author:Charles W. Socarides
“If someone is identifying themselves based on their orientation toward a person of the same gender, then that seems to me to be a self-evident disorder.” IfsPersonsSelfSeemsGayGenderDisorderEvidentOrientationIdentifying Author:Scott Lively
“If you catch them at 12 years old, which they are working very aggressively to do and you tell those children that if you have an attraction towards someone of the same gender, that means you're gay and because you're gay you need to come with us.” IfsNeedsYearsMeanChildrenGayGenderAttraction Author:Scott Lively