“My personal view is very simple: What happens in your bedroom, it's up to you. If you want to use gay marriage as an affectionate kind of thing you're doing, do it.” IfsWantKindUseHappensSimpleViewsGayBedroomGay MarriageUp To YouAffectionatePersonal Views Author:Marion Barry
“I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of grace [...] Jesus saw fit to enlighten me about this mystery. He set the book of nature before me and I saw that all the flowers He has created are lovely. The splendor of the rose and whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. I realized that if every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness and there would be no wild flowers to make the meadows gay.” IfsLittlesLongBookSoulWould BeWantedJesusLosesSimpleSawsGraceMysteryFlowerAmountFitGayEqualLong TimeSpringRoseI RealizedTinyLovelyCharmScentPreferenceVioletEnlighteningLiliesSplendorMeadowsDaisiesLovelinessWhiteness Author:Therese of Lisieux
“We think that if we get tested, that means you have to have HIV. Or we think that just by knowing someone with HIV, we're going to get HIV or because he's gay or she's a lesbian or whatever. This false information has been put out there and it's created this stigma that stops us from going to find out if we're infected. The truth is it doesn't matter who you are, if you're having sex, you need to be getting tested, plain and simple.” IfsThinkingNeedsMeanHas BeensMatterSexSimpleKnowingInformationTruth IsGayWho You AreTestedHivStigmaHaving SexPlain And SimpleKnowing Someone Author:Jay Ellis
“Every religion you are, every ethnicity you are, every sex you are, if you're gay or straight. You should be considered as equal as anybody else. That's super-simple, but apparently we have to still march for it.” IfsShouldStillsSexSimpleGayEqualMarchEthnicity Author:Bianca Balti
“Historically different groups find different things in each comics, as with *X-Men*. Gay readers find parallels to living a closeted lifestyle or choosing to come out and be openly gay. Black readers find a relevance to their lives growing up in America as a black guy. Picked-on brainy kids find a metaphor for being an outsider. It's a simple enough, and direct enough metaphor that it has different shades for different people. And so each reader to some degree gets out of it what they bring to it. That's one of the things I think that makes *X-Men* such a strong property.” PeopleThinkingDifferentEnoughKidsGuyStrongBlackSimpleGrowing UpGayDirectPropertyMetaphorLifestyleOutsidersRelevance Author:Tom Brevoort
“And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?” IfsHeartHoursSimpleMorningStrangeGayBirdTiredJudgedRestlessSimple LifeRosaryJoyce Book:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition
“I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.” IfsCareBlackSimpleWhitePoorRichNiceGayDon't CareFatsI Don't CareTallBeing NiceBadassSkinnyBisexualBlack WhiteRich Or PoorGay And Straight Author:Eminem
“What people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love. That's their business. It's no different than discriminating against blacks. It's discrimination, plain and simple.” PeopleDifferentHomeSimpleGayDiscriminationGay MarriagePlain And Simple Author:Jay-Z
“It's about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote. This is something we should do now.” ShouldFirstsSimpleClassGayVoteCitizenshipJerseyGay MarriageNew JerseyFirst ClassPlain And SimplePopular Vote Author:Cory Booker
“The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the origin of homosexuality, no serious scientist today suggests that a simple cause-effect relationship applies.” Has BeensTodayCausesInterestSimpleEffectsSeriousTheoryGayScientistDespiteMechanismHomosexualityHormonesDiscarded Author:William H. Masters
“There is a norm, there is a model of the way things are supposed to be. When you find yourself outside of that, when you find yourself not fitting the way things are designed to be, it's a simple matter of just learning how you ought to be and working to restore the way things are supposed to be.” WayMatterSimpleOughtGayModelsSupposed To BeFinding YourselfNormFittingNot Fitting Author:Scott Lively