“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
“I do have things I would like to see adopted on behalf of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people: they include the right to marry the individual of our choice; the right to serve in the military to defend our country; and the right to a job based solely on our own qualifications. I acknowledge that this is an agenda, but I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people's rights to get married, join the army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.” PeopleThinkingSelfCountryJobsChoicesIndividualRightsMilitaryGayMarriedArmyOur CountryRadicalAcknowledgeRevolutionaryAgendasPlatformsAdoptedBehalfTransgenderQualificationsOur ChoicesAdvocatingBisexualJoining The Army Author:Barney Frank
“Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long history of shutting people out--african americans, women, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities--and throughout our history, we have found too many ways to divide and exclude people from their ownership of the law and protection under the law.” PeopleWayLongLawFoundIndividualLibertyPrinciplesGayConstitutionProtectionDespiteAfrican AmericanDividesDisabilityProtectedOwnershipFoundingIndividual LibertyPeople With Disabilities Author:Hillary Clinton
“According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this secret sect met at night beneath the full moon, for these were the "misfits" and "outcasts" who did not fit into mainstream society. Little has changed over the centuries and the Witchcraft community still embraces individuals frequently rejected in mainstream society. These include gays, lesbians, transgendered individuals, and other people with the courage to live their lives authentically in accord with who they are inside their hearts, minds, and spirits.” PeopleMindHeartLittlesStillsSpiritNightIndividualCommunitySecretCenturyChangedFitMetsGayMoonMembersTraditionEmbracePriestsWitchMainstreamRejectedPeasantsAccordWitchcraftPaganSectsOutcastMisfitsFull MoonOral TraditionPriestessesMainstream Society Author:Raven Grimassi
“There are a lot of very fine upstanding gays who are good citizens and all that. I am not making a decision for individual people. But when it comes to a societal policy, I think there are not enough babies for adoption to go around. I think a preference should be given to families with a mother and father who have a lifetime commitment.” PeopleThinkingShouldEnoughMotherFatherIndividualGivenDecisionPolicyBabyFineCitizensGayCommitmentLifetimeAdoptionPreferenceMother And FatherGood CitizenLifetime Commitment Author:Phyllis Schlafly
“I don't think that gay and lesbian relationships are identical to heterosexual relationships. I do think that heterosexual weddings, or at least most of them, are sort of camp pantomimes about male and female sex roles, even if the couple is marrying as individuals and equals.” IfsThinkingIndividualSexRolesCoupleGayFemaleMalesCampsIdenticalMarryingPantomime Author:Dan Savage
“Oh, no. I don't think I've ever really subscribed to that view, that you can turn it on and off like a water tap. Um, you know, I think that there's a whole lot that goes into the makeup of an individual that, uh, you just can't simply say, oh, like, "Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being gay." It's like saying, "Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being black."” ThinkingKnowsWholeTurnsIndividualBlackWaterViewsMorningTomorrowGayMakeupAnd OffBeing GayTomorrow Morning Author:Michael Steele
“Let's not ask whether the parents are gay or heterosexual. The important thing is who the best parents are in each individual case.” ImportantAsksIndividualParentCasesGayImportant ThingsBest Parents Author:Jens Spahn
“The new millennium won't be about sexual labels; it'll be about sexual expression. It won't matter if you're sleeping with men or women. It'll be about sleeping with individuals. Soon everyone will be pansexual. It won't matter if you're gay or straight.” IfsMenMatterIndividualSleepExpressionGayLabelsMillennium Author:Kim Cattrall
“Where was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century? The libertarian movement has been conspicuously absent from the campaigns for civil rights for nonwhites, women, gays and lesbians.” Has BeensLastsAmericaIndividualHalfLibertyStruggleRightsCenturyMovementGayLibertarianCampaignsCivil RightsAbsentIndividual Liberty Author:Michael Lind
“You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people. Therefore join the movement as individuals against anti-Semitism, join the movements for the rights of Hispanics, the rights of women, the rights of gays. In other words, I think that each movement has to stand on its own feet because it has a particular agenda, but it can ask other people.” PeopleThinkingAsksIndividualRightsFeetMovementParticularGayAgendasAnti Semitism Author:Bayard Rustin
“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
“I don't think that on a daily basis, people need to be so concerned with others think. When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre. I never lost that I think part of that is growing up gay and part is growing up overweight. You never lose that, and I never want to lose touch with that whimsy, that sense of innocence. I also love the reaction it elicits in people. I like that it makes other people happy.” PeopleThinkingIndividualGrowing UpGayConcernedTheatreInnocenceOverweight Author:Brad Goreski
“Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.” IfsDoeFactsFallIndividualBoysJourneyGayDiseaseFalling In LoveLgbtHomosexualityHomosexualOrientationGay RightsBeing GayGay PrideLgbt Pride Author:James A. Baldwin
“I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.” ThinkingFirstsMotivationalMotivationLiteratureIndividualStrongGayHeterosexualityPersonal MotivationHeterosexuality Is Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be "gay," I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.” ThinkingWayTryingDifferentSeemsAgeCultureIndividualSocialGayActivityEthicsRelationIntensePsychologicalVisibleMaskYieldTraitsHomosexualDifferent Ages Author:Michel Foucault
“You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn't have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not what person belongs to what group.” PersonsWould BeRememberIndividualRightsGroupsGayBehaviorMajorsDebateWomens RightsGay Rights Author:Ron Paul
“The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies on overcoming the latter instead of attacking the former.” PoliticalIndividualEnergyChurchPartyEnemyIgnoranceGayOvercomingFormerLatterPolitical PartiesExesAttackingOrganisation Author:Anthony Venn-Brown