“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
“The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes, disappointment laughs at the curious fabric, formed by so many efforts, and gay with so many brilliant colors, and, while the artists imagine the work arrived at the moment of completion, brushes away the beautiful web, and leaves nothing behind.” MenMomentsBeautifulArtistEffortBehindsLaughingImagineColorGayLaborDisappointmentBrilliantCuriousFrustratedSchemesFabricBrushesDarlingCompletionSagacity Author:Timothy Dwight V
“Imagine that you're a gay man and you're spending all your time with people who believe you are possessed by the devil.” PeopleMenBelieveImagineGayDevilSpendingPossessedImagine ThatGay Men Author:Roger Ross Williams
“To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who's trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.” IfsWritingTryingPersonsDifferentHardWould BeImagineGayBoringDriversImagine ThatCreedsTruckTransViewpointsEthnicityTruck Driver Author:Brian K. Vaughan
“I can imagine that if you're a kid growing up somewhere, where you might be gay or you think you're gay, but you don't know who else would be ... you become very closeted.” IfsThinkingKnowsI CanMightWould BeKidsGrowing UpGrowingImagineGayBe YouImagine ThatKids Growing Up Author:Rib Hillis
“Can you imagine in 2016 there is a discussion about #OscarsSoWhite? Is it a novelty we've just discovered that the whole production machine is dominated by only one type of human being, excluding women, excluding gays, excluding minorities? This is not new.” HumansWholeHuman BeingsImagineTypeGayMachinesProductionsDiscussionMinoritiesNovelty Author:Raoul Peck
“I realized I was gay when I was a teenager and I couldn't imagine what it meant to be a gay adult. I just did the next thing that seemed right, and that led me from activism to media to the kind of media I'm in now. But I like where I've ended up.” KindNextImagineMediaGayAdultsActivismI RealizedTeenagerMeant To Be Author:Rachel Maddow
“I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then.” PeopleHardEnoughFacesImagineGayLifetimeCrueltyTransgenderTransBeing Gay Author:Patti Smith
“Imagine if today, they invented a religion that advocated the killing of gays. We would not tolerate that. However, Islam is a religion that advocates that.” TodayImagineGayIslamKillingTolerate Author:Greg Gutfeld
“I couldn't imagine a book with many characters in it and one of them not being gay. It would have felt like a glaring and problematic omission for me. But I also wanted to write that character as a person, not just a gay person.” WritingBookCharacterImagineGayBeing Gay Author:Ayana Mathis
“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
“Imagine finding someone you love more than anything in the world, who you would risk your life for but couldn't marry. And you couldn't have that special day the way your friends do-you know, wear the ring on your finger and have it mean the same thing as everybody else. Just put yourself in that person's shoes. It makes me feel sick to my stomach” KnowsWorldWayFeelsMeanPersonsImagineRiskSpecialGayFindingsSickFingersShoesRingsDo You KnowStomachGay MarriageOne You LoveSomeone You LoveFinding Someone Author:Miley Cyrus
“As a married person myself, I don't know what it's like to be told I can't marry somebody I love, and want to marry, I can't imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantFeelsShouldPersonsI CanImagineGayMarriedAnd LoveGay MarriageGay Rights Author:Carrie Underwood
“To deny an entire group of people the ability to be legal couples is anti-American and anti-freedom. As a devoted husband and father of two, I can't imagine the state of Minnesota not recognizing my love for my wife Isabelle. We would welcome and respect the equal rights for gays to experience the same joy and privileges of marriage that we do.” PeopleI CanTwoStatesJoyFatherAbilityWifeRightsImagineGroupsCoupleGayHusbandEqualPrivilegeDenyMy WifeWelcomeDevotedRecognizingEqual RightsGay MarriageMinnesotaAnti-americanHusband And Father Author:Chris Kluwe