“The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody.”
~Rita Mae Brown
“The fact that we are all human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish humans from one another.”
~Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986)
“When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.”
~From the tombstone of a gay Vietnam veteran
“Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons.”
~Letter to the editor, The Advocate
“If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?”
~Lily Tomlin
“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”
~Ernest Gaines
“Drag is when a man wears everything a lesbian won’t.”
~Unknown
“I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated ‘all my homosexual patients are quite sick’ – to which I finally replied ‘so are all my heterosexual patients’.”
~Ernest van den Haag, psychotherapist
“My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it.”
~Amanda Bearse
“The closet is an awful place to die.
~Unknown
“One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness.”
~Towards a Quaker View of Sex, 1964
