“Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.” MindHalfInfluenceGayFundCrownsTireEmperorTailorsProcessionVenerationBarbersNightcap Book:Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings Source: Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings
“Gay and costly apparel directly tends to create and influence lust.... The fact is plain and undeniable, it has the effect both on the wearer and beholder. You kindle a flame, which, at the same time consumes both yourself and your admirers.” FactsInfluenceEffectsGayLustFlamesModestyKindlesAdmirerBeholderApparel Author:John Wesley
“My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.” WritingAcceptingInfluenceDadGayMy DadParadoxAmbiguityUps & DownsWeirdnessVery PositivePositive Influence Author:Mike Mills
“The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological minority variant in the human condition drives me crazy, far crazier than I am driven by any loud-mouthed purveyor of hateful nonsense.” KnowsHumansStrongChurchSilenceCrazyInfluenceConditionsPositionGayDrivenLoudNonsenseMinoritiesHuman ConditionSuspicionHatefulBeing GayDrive Me Crazy Author:James Alison
“LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent in Russia. There's no doubt in anyone's mind that the values that affirm nontraditional relationships, that affirm feminism, come from abroad. If you've established - and this isn't up for discussion - that foreign agents are bad, and foreign influence is bad, and the West is our enemy, then there's no better expression of the West's influence than gays and lesbians.” PeopleMindValuesEnemyDoubtFeminismInfluenceGayUltimateDiscussionLgbt Author:Masha Gessen
“Were there open gays and lesbians before the West started influencing Russia? No, there weren't. In fact, the most out person in the country, until recently, was me. I turned gay in America. I was a nice Soviet fourteen-year-old when I left, and I came back a lesbian.” CountryNiceInfluenceGaySoviet Author:Masha Gessen
“This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.” MightLawCareersInfluenceBecomingGayDiscoveryDelightAbandonLiberatingWizardsGiddy Author:J. K. Rowling