“I've spent fifteen years of my life fighting for our right to be free and make love whenever, wherever... And you're telling me that all those years of what being gay stood for is wrong... and I'm a murderer. We have been so oppressed! Don't you remember how it was? Can't you see how important it is for us to love openly, without hiding and without guilt?” YearsHas BeensImportantRememberFightingGayGuiltHidingFifteenMaking LoveOppressedHomosexualityMurdererBeing GayFifteen Years Book:The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me: Two Plays Source: The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me: Two Plays
“I speak about androids because I think the android represents the new 'other.' You can compare it to being a lesbian or being a gay man or being a black woman ... What I want is for people who feel oppressed or feel like the 'other' to connect with the music and to feel like, 'She represents who I am.'” PeopleThinkingMenWantFeelsSpeakBlackGayWho I AmCompareOppressedBlack WomenGay MenAndroids Author:Janelle Monae
“Liberals in blue states just think that when they look in the mirror and say to themselves "I'm for the environment, I'm for the children, I'm for the gay people, I'm against war," it pits automatically, and the oppressor/oppressed leftist mindset that anyone that would disagree with them isn't conservative, they're crazy. They're Nazis, they're facists, they're evil.” PeopleThinkingLooksChildrenWarStatesEvilEnvironmentCrazyGayMirrorsBlueConservativeMindsetDisagreeOppressedNaziPitsOppressorsGay PeopleLeftistsAgainst War Author:Andrew Breitbart
“Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a way, legitimately, to maintain your sense of specialness and difference? And how do you express that? Does it just become a kind of kitsch? You can say this of gay people, but it's true for Jewish people, Italian Americans, everyone who deals with it. It's a question of assimilation. How can you be assimilated and special at the same time?” PeopleKindProblemSpecialGayDisappearLifestyleItalianOppressedGay PeopleAssimilationItalian American Author:Daniel Mendelsohn
“If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf.” IfsKnowsWantLooksAmericaBlackGayMinoritiesOppressedShelvesBookstores Author:Armistead Maupin