“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?” MenTwoHandsMotivationalCultureSeeingIdentityIntegrityGayComfortableRespectGunCaringHypocrisyLgbtGay MenBeing GayHolding HandsGay PrideLgbt CommunityLgbt PrideGay LifeGay Culture Author:Ernest Gaines
“Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?” MeanChildrenArtistChoicesNamesSidesDarkPoorWonderRolesRightsSubjectsGayAuthorityGunDoctorsAbsolutesExtremesFavorsToleranceAbortionGun ControlStampsImmoralPettyControversialDark SideGay RightsInvokeDetestFood StampsPoor Children Author:Barbra Streisand
“I've always been progressive on social issues: pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-gay rights - even when I was a Republican. The big difference is that I once believed the private sector would address America's social problems. But then I saw firsthand that this wasn't going to happen.” ProblemBigsHappensAmericaChoicesSocialDifferencesIssuesSawsRightsRepublicanGayGunAddressesProgressiveGun ControlSocial IssuesPrivate SectorGay RightsSocial ProblemsPro GunPro Gun ControlPro Gay Author:Arianna Huffington
“So many times, white - non-college-education - educated white males have voted Republican. They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G's, God being the woman's right to choose.” ThreeInterestWhiteEconomicCollegeRepublicanGayGunMalesEducatedCollege Education Author:Judy Woodruff
“Pushing gun control drives people [in my district] crazy, gay marriage, abortion, deficit spending.All of that stuff adds up to be a problem for Democrats.” PeopleProblemStuffCrazyGayGunAddDemocratSpendingAbortionPushingGun ControlDeficitGay MarriageDeficit Spending Author:Collin Peterson
“Jewish voters care. They want someone who's good on Israel and who's good on Jewish issues. But they also want somebody who's going to be pro-choice and pro-gun control and pro-gay rights. To the vast majority of the Jewish community, just being good on Israel or on Jewish issues is not enough.” WantEnoughCareChoicesCommunityIssuesRightsGayGunMajorityIsraelBe GoodVotersJust BeingGun ControlGay RightsPro GunJewish CommunityPro Gun ControlPro Gay Author:Charles Schumer
“It became inescapable that as conservatives were wrong about people of color, they were also wrong about women. They were wrong about gay people. The only individual freedoms they seemed to get exercised about were the freedom to make a profit and the freedom to own a gun.” PeopleIndividualColorGayGunProfitGay PeopleIndividual Freedom Author:Steve Erickson
“Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.” BelieveCountryChoicesI BelieveHalfCuttingRightsPositionGayGunI Believe InImmigrationGay RightsPro Gay Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her guns right up until the end. She wasn't abusive, but she was never that thrilled that I was gay.” EndsMomGayGunMy MomStuckLooking BackAbusiveThings I Love Author:Rufus Wainwright
“Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a Columbia professor, all right? You don't do that by holding hands with every at-risk undergraduate who says he's homesick, or he's turning gay, or the dog ate his term paper. I write about Lincoln, and freedom, and great ideas. I don't always have time for students. It's like Dean Martin used to say: if you want to talk, go to a priest. Hey -- what's the gun for?” IfsWantWritingLooksBookIdeasHandsUsedTermRoomsWrittenRiskDogStudentsSonGayPaperGunWindowFaultsHeyFiftyPriestsProfessorsGreat IdeaDeanColumbiaHolding HandsYour SonHomesickChristmas EveUndergraduateDormsDorm RoomsTerm Paper Author:Eric Foner
“There once was a man name Barack, Whose re-election came as a shock. He raised the taxes I pay, And then turned marriage gay. And now he's coming after your glock.” MenNamesPayGayTaxesGunElectionRaisedBarackShockGun ControlGlocks Author:Stephen Colbert