“When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.” FeminismGayActivismObligationOrganizedSomething BetterOrganized Religion Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to his own vision, not to be some sort of common denominator or public relations man to all gay people.” PeopleMenFirstsCommonVisionGayRelationPressureEnormousObligationBeing TrueNovelistsGay PeoplePublic RelationsCommon DenominatorSpokespeople Author:Edmund White
“After the second chapter of Days of Obligation, which is about the death of a friend of mine from AIDS, was published in Harper's, I got this rather angry letter from a gay-and-lesbian group that was organizing a protest against the magazine. It was the same old problem: political groups have almost no sense of irony.” ProblemPoliticalGroupsMinesGayLettersAngryAidsObligationMagazinesIronyProtestChaptersHarperDeath Of A FriendPolitical Groups Author:Richard Rodriguez
“I think that the government has an obligation to monitor communications that could reveal a plot to murder millions of Americans. Monitoring bowel movements? I'll leave that to some of the gay bloggers, that's much more their style.” ThinkingGovernmentMillionsStyleMovementCommunicationGayMurderObligationPlotBloggersMonitoringBowel Movements Author:Jeff Gannon
“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.” MenShouldHumansFeelingsHuman BeingsGayCapableIdealsObligationLgbtHomosexualityRestraintClosetsHomosexualGay RightsGay MenBeing GayGay PrideHeterosexualityLgbt CommunityHeterosexuality IsLgbt PrideLoving A Woman Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.” MenBelieveJobsCertainI BelieveRightsGayPropertyPartnersObligationHospitalsCitizenshipTransfersVisitation Author:Barack Obama