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"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals, and three-hundred and sixty two admonishments to heterosexuals. This doesn't mean that God loves heterosexuals any less, it's just that they need more supervision." - Lynne Lavner
"My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was 15 because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it." - Amanda Bearse (Entertainer)
If Homosexuals are Gay, then Lesbians must be Exstatic!!
"I'm not a lesbian - but my girlfriend is.."
"It is not the homosexual who is perverse, but the society in which he lives" - Rosa Von Praunheim (Writer)
"What's a bridal shower if you're gay? It's the parade of gifts that you'll never get because you're a homosexual!. 'Come in, take a look at the blender, toaster, silverware you'll have to buy for yourself!!!'. I hate that. I don't bring a gift anymore, I take one. I have six cuisinarts. I don't give a shit... they owe us!" - Suzanne Westenhoffer (Lesbian Comic)
"I don't think of them a lesbian supervisors, I think of them as county supervisors who happen to be lesbians. A lesbian supervisor would have a very different job: 'Hey you, cut those nails before you hurt somebody!" - Marga Gomez (Lesbian Comic)
"Some women can't say the word lesbian.... even when their mouth is full of one." - Kate Clinton (Lesbian Comic)
"I don't mind straight people, as long as they act gay in public."
"If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: 'Hello, can't work today, still queer' "- Robin Tyler (Lesbian Comic)
Let's get one thing straight - I'm not!
"It's astonishing how much energy some people waste worrying that someone else might be enjoying life in ways that they don't approve of" - Kevin Michael Vail
"I can't help looking gay. I put on a dress and people say, 'Who's the dyke in the dress?" - Karen Ripley (Lesbian Comic)
Queer by Nature, Proud by Choice
"It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents" - Judy Carter (Lesbian Comic/Writer)
"Pronouns make it hard to keep our sexual orientation a secret when our co-workers ask us about our weekend. 'I had a great time with...THEM.' Great! Now they don't think you're queer - just a big slut!" - Judy Carter
DON'T YOU DARE ASSUME I'M STRAIGHT!
"I don't know if one ever fully gets used to or accepts their sexuality. Hetros smugly think they do, but only because they haven't ever thought to question it - but for queers, there always is a time where one deals with what they are." - Brad Shapcott (Writer)
Coming out for gays and lesbians isn't an event - It's a process.
"I was impatient with people. 'Accept me now, or see you later!'. I realize now that if it took me years to understand that I was gay, maybe I should give others time to adapt. Not everyone will be instantly overjoyed with the news and that's OK." - Ellen DeGeneres (Entertainer)
"As long as society is anti-gay, then it will seem like being gay is anti-social." - Joseph Francis (Writer)
"The best revenge is to be happier than the fuck-wit who tried to mess with you in the first place. And if at all possible, humiliate them on national Television." - Sue-Ann Post
When you get to the edge of all you know, you must believe one of two things :- There will be ground for you to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." - Oscar Wilde (Writer)
"My bisexual dilemma was that my gay friends thought I'm a lesbian in denial and my straight friends thought... I'm a lesbian in denial." - Lacie Harmon (Lesbian Comic)
"That word lesbian sounds like a disease. And straight men know because they're sure that they're the cure." - Denise McCanles (Lesbian Comic)
"Most of our parents are straight. Heteros who hate us should stop having us!" - Lynda Montgomery (Lesbian Comic)
"If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influences from what's generally regarded as American Culture, you would be pretty much left with Let's Make a Deal." - Fran Lebowitz (Writer)
"It's hard losing weight when you're a lipstick lesbian. Can you imagine trying to eat Jenny Craig when you've got Mary Kay on your face?"
"When my mother found out I was gay she sent me to Juvenile Hall. That's smart. Sending me to live with five hundred girls who can't get out!." - Kat Howard
"My mom blames California for me being a lesbian. 'Everything was fine until you moved out there.' 'That's right, Mom, we have mandatory lesbianism in West Hollywood. The Gay Patrol busted me, and I was given seven business days to add a significant amount of flannel to my wardrobe." - Coley Sohn
"Introductions are tricky in a lesbian relationship. It's a word game. To my friends she's my lover, to strangers and family members in denial she's my roommate, to Jehovah's Witnesses at the door she's my lesbian sex slave, and to my mother she's Jewish and that's all that matters." - Denise McCanles (Lesbian Comic)
"When she lowers her eyes she seems to hold all the beauty in the world between her eyelids; when she raises them I see only myself in her gaze."
"You can't type what a lesbian is. We're anything and everything. The one thing in common is that we make love to other women. So give up trying to limit us." - Amanda Bearse
"There are a lot of lesbians who don't believe that they're oppressed. It's just that they aren't aware of their oppression." - by Ruth Simpson in 1971
"I think it's important to have more Lesbians and Gays visible in our society so people can see there is not an enormous difference between us and we don't have anything to fear from each other." - by Mary Morgan in 1981
"Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another?" - Mary MacLane
"I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have." - Florence Nightingale
"Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty." - Adrienne Rich
"The most important political step that any gay man or lesbian can take is to come out of the closet. It's been proven that it is easier to hate us and to fear us if you can't see us." - Amanda Bearse
"Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges." - Bob Paris
"I've had to fight to be myself and to be respected. I'm proud to carry this stigma and call myself a lesbian. I don't boast about it or broadcast it, but I don't deny it. I've had to confront society and the Church, which says that homosexuals are damned. That's absurd. How can someone who's born like this be judged? I didn't attend lesbian classes. No one taught me to be this way. I was born this way, from the moment I opened my eyes in this world. I've never been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am." - Chavela Vargas
"I think of how feminist ideas and movements are attacked, called unnatural by the ruling powers, when in fact they are ideas whose time has come, ideas as relentless as the waves carving and later eroding stone arches. Change is inevitable; no bridge lasts forever." - Gloria Anzalda
"We women are the best thing going - we are warm, passionate, we cry and we live! Let's celebrate!" - Margaret Sloan-Hunter in 1974
"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another." - Anais Nin
I don't even consider myself bisexual. Frankly, I just think of myself as a "people person." - Michael Dane
"Hick darling...I couldn't say je t'aime et je t'adore as I longed to do, but always remember I am saying it, that I go to sleep thinking of you." - Eleanor Roosevelt, in a letter to Lorena Hickok
I get complete strangers walking up to me, patting my belly and going "Ooh who do you think it'll look like, you or the father?" And I just say "How 'bout YOUR HUSBAND?"
"All pianos are women and lesbians, sometimes I like to sleep under them"
"There is a veritable freeway through the heterosexual lands. For many women the freeway of heterosexuality is the only discovered territory. They never see the exit lane marked 'bisexual' or 'lesbian', The information that there are different sexual places to explore can be exciting or terrifying. Some women ignore, dodge, repress, and flee the opportunities for sexual transformation that arise in their lives. Fear prevents them from embracing the challenge of movement into greater sexual awareness and self-posession."
"Lynne and I have a gay daughter, so it's an issue that our family is very familiar with... With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People... ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to." - Vice President Dick Cheney
"It felt cool to be reminded how much they love each other, but at the same time, I was troubled, too, because I wondered: In a world with so many problems, why is everybody making a damn fuss because two people love each other? My mothers are not giving guns to terrorists, and they're not selling drugs to kids, and they're certainly not destroying the sanctity of anything, and so the thought occurred to me - what the hell is wrong with people?" - Peter Hams
"What are the legitimate state interests that could possibly justify and compel discrimination against gay people? Is there evidence that allowing gays to marry would endanger or threaten heterosexual marriage? Is there evidence that gay people are somehow anything other than just people who are gay? There is none." - Judge David Ackerson
"Some say let's choose another route and give the gay and lesbian community certain legal rights but call it something other than marriage. We have been down this road before in this country. Separate is not equal. The right to liberty and happiness belong to each of us and on the same terms, without regard to either skin color or sexual orientation." - U.S. Rep. John Lewis
"Labels can also be misleading. I saw a news report about a lesbian protest march, and the reporter said, 'Coming up next, a lesbian demonstration.' My first thought was, 'Cool. I always wondered how those things work.' "
Yes, I was a teenage lesbian. And while that may sound like a horror movie to some of you, for me I could subtitle that period of my life, "Adventures in Paradise," because there was one thing that we gay teenagers could do that our straight friends couldn't. I could say, 'Hey, Mom, Michelle's comin' over to spend the night Friday night, OK?' ... 'OK, Honey!'
"Heterosexuality is not normal - it's just common." - Amanda Bearse
"I will not tolerate such a hurtful and slanderous lie. We are a happy family with two mothers and four children." - Ani Difranco
"Parents do the worst things to us when we are kids. My mother made me wear a bright pink jumper when I was eight. She watched me walk outside in it and just stood at the door saying, "I can't believe she put it on..." I got back at her for it though. Ten years later when I told her I was a lesbian, I blamed it on the jumper." - Rosie O'Donnell
"My lover asked me If I wanted to have children. I told her I didn't know, but we should keep trying" - Suzy Berger (Lesbian Comic)
"All my life I've loved women, and that is it." - Linda Perry (Musician)
"I heard that in the hierarchy of reincarnation, the lowest form is a heterosexual man. Then as you go up the ladder, the highest reincarnation form is a lesbian." - Melissa Etheridge
"On behalf of all the teenagers out there who think there might be something wrong with them.. Don't ever let anyone make you ashamed of who you are!" - Ellen Degeneres
"I love, cherish, and respect women in my mind, in my heart, and in my soul. This love of women is the soil in which my life is rooted. It is the soil of our common life together. My life grows out of this soil. In any other soil, I would die. In whatever ways I am strong, I am strong because of the power and passion of this nurturant love." - Andrea Dworkin
Lesbian rights are human rights.
"So many times we don't know of any other women who feel about women the way we do. Our isolation is compounded by the fact that society, our families and the church are constantly telling us that women who identify with other women in a sexual or loving manner are either sick, sinners, or both." - Juanita Ramos
"How many daughters, mothers, sisters, godmothers, aunts, cousins and best friends have lived and died unknown? Each woman's forced silence was a denial of her existance, As if she never loved another woman, never rejoiced in their union, or cried for her, or waited for her to come home." - Mariana Romo-Carmona
"Lesbianism, politically organised, is the greatest threat to male supremacy." - Rita Mae Brown
"Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine!" -Whoopi Goldberg
"This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and [God is] pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if [God] did not approve, it would not be there" - Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey
"...in all the world, there are more creatures than just man that make lifetime matings. Among them, some of the noblest - wolves, swans, geese, the great raptors...and with all of them, all, there are those pairings, from time to time, within the same gender...How, then, 'unnatural'? Usual, no, and not desirable for the species, else it would die out for lack of offspring. But not unnatural. The beasts of the field are innocent as man can never be ... and they do not cast out of their ranks the [homosexuals]"- from Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey
The Things that happen when you become a Lesbian:
1. An unreal love for the game of softball.
2. You are expected to recriut at least four other women to Lesbianism or they will take away your 'lesbian street cred.'
3. Flannel is a must.
4. You must aspire to never be girlie again.
5. Be a good lesbian or they will forcibly remove your toaster from your kitchen. Not the regular toaster, either - the one they give you at the coming out party. Just plain evil if you ask me...
"I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice," she said. "But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people." - Coretta Scott King
"Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood." - Coretta Scott King
"We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be," she said, quoting her husband. "I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy." - Coretta Scott King
"For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people," King said at the 25th Anniversary Luncheon for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund.... "Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in Albany, Ga. and St. Augustine, Fla., and many other campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement," she said. "Many of these courageous men and women were fighting for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, and I salute their contributions." - Coretta Scott King
"We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say 'common struggle' because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination." - Coretta Scott King
"How you get all that traffic with no equipment is beyond me"
"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."
Simone de Beauvoir quotes (French writer and feminist, 1908-1986)
"I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it."
Marlo Thomas quotes (American actress, b.1937)
"Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children."
Sam Austin
After talking to a lesbian caller:
ADAM: She wasn't too militant about her lesbianism. I like that, a nice, docile lesbian. We don't see that too often.
DREW: Well, they come in all shapes and sizes, so to speak.
ADAM: Ah, yes, I saw the North American, Spotted Lesbian on the way in.
From Lovelines
To a female caller who said that she experiences pain during sex and nothing seems to work:
ADAM: Were you ever on the rodeo circuit?
CALLER: No...
ADAM: Then this is God telling you to go lesbian.
from Lovelines
When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988 (Thank you, Marlene.)
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share. ~Rita Mae Brown
It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. ~Daphne Fielding, The Duchess of Jermyn Street
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ~Ernest Gaines
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524
No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. ~Rita Mae Brown, speech, 28 August 1982
War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the Southern Baptist Convention is protesting? ~The Value of Families
If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come from? ~Author Unknown
"You could move." ~Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby," in response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. ~Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947
As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children. ~Anita Bryant, 1977
BUT THEN...
Anita Bryant like Anita hole in the head. ~Graffiti
The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt. ~Dennis Miller
Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich were shaking hands congratulating themselves on the introduction of an antigay bill in Congress. If it passes, they won't be able to shake hands, because it will then be illegal for a prick to touch an asshole. ~Judy Carter
I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant. ~Paul Newman
My sexual orientation? Horizontal, usually.
Closets are for clothes.
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
For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian. ~Mabel Maney
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? ~Rita Mae Brown
I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men. ~Diamanda Galas
Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?" ~John Stewart
The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft we can all declare homosexuality instead of running off to Canada. ~Lorne Bloch
There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved. ~Boy George
What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't. ~Ed Fallon
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. ~Woody Allen
Trust a nitwit society like this one to think that there are only two categories - fag and straight. ~Gore Vidal
I get sick of listening to straight people complain about, "Well, hey, we don't have a heterosexual-pride day, why do you need a gay-pride day?" I remember when I was a kid I'd always ask my mom: "Why don't we have a Kid's Day? We have a Mother's Day and a Father's Day, but why don't we have a Kid's Day?" My mom would always say, "Every day is Kid's Day." To all those heterosexuals that bitch about gay pride, I say the same thing: Every day is heterosexual-pride day! Can't you people enjoy your banquet and not piss on those of us enjoying our crumbs over here in the corner? ~Rob Nash
Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. ~Martina Navratilova
The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. ~Gore Vidal
Pronouns make it hard to keep our sexual orientation a secret when our co-workers ask us about our weekend. "I had a great time with... them." Great! Now they don't think you're queer - just a big slut! ~Judy Carter
The next time someone asks you, "Hey, howdja get to be a homosexual anyway?" tell them, "Homosexuals are chosen first on talent, then interview... then the swimsuit and evening gown competition pretty much gets rid of the rest of them." ~Karen Williams
If adjustment is necessary, it should be made primarily with regard to the position the homosexual occupies in present-day society, and society should more often be treated than the homosexual. ~Dr. Harry Benjamin
The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill.... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick. ~Ronald Gold
The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay. ~Rev. Troy Perry
- My mother made me a homosexual.
- If I gave her the wool, would she make me one too?
~Graffiti, London, 1978
While many minority groups are the target for prejudice... and discrimination... in our society, few persons face this hostility without the support and acceptance of their family as do many gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth. ~Virginia Uribe & Karen Harbeck
I like my beers cold and my homosexuals flaming. ~Homer Simpson, from the television show The Simpsons
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ~Homer
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~AnaÔs Nin
Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here. ~Melissa Etheridge, "Silent Legacy," Yes I Am, 1993
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. ~Johann von Goethe
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. ~Shakti Gawain
If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. ~Author Unknown
Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. ~Charles R. Brown
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. ~Lucille Ball
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity. ~Thomas Szasz
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me--so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.
~ Audre Lorde
"This sweet little blond girl [from The Sonny & Cher Show] turned out to be a big dyke. There's something wonderful about that, because that's life."
--Chastity Bono to USA Today.
"I'm sort of a gay success story, a very inspirational one. What happened to me is exactly the opposite of what closeted people fear: They think they'll lose everything if they come out. This did not happen to me at all. In fact, everything came back tenfold."
--Rocker Melissa Etheridge to The Advocate.
"The sexual orientation of parents is not in and of itself an indicator of parental fitness. ... The sexual orientation of parents does not automatically disqualify them from being good, fit, loving or successful parents. ... The sexual orientation of parents is not in and of itself an indicator of the overall adjustment and development of children. ... Gay and lesbian parents and same-sex couples can provide children with a nurturing relationship and a nurturing environment which is conducive to the development of happy, healthy and well-adjusted children."
--From Judge Kevin Chang's ruling in the landmark Hawaii gay- marriage case.
"You would think that those who are always talking about family values would want to create an environment of permanent relationships for people of the same sex. But they're not advocating family values. They're advocating their values. ... I still get this shit full-time. ... They just are haters, period."
--San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown to The Advocate.
"I'm looking for a hunk myself. ... People that want to get married should do that [get married]. I don't see any reason why it has to be gender-specific. ... Whatever gender decides to hitch up should be their business."
--U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, D-Ill.
"If they don't want me to get 'married,' if that's bugging 'them' -- fine. But I do believe that as an American citizen, a law-abiding, taxpaying -- major taxpaying -- citizen, that I should be allowed the same rights, the same pursuit of happiness that every other citizen enjoys. ... Whatever they want to call it. As long as we have the same legal benefits and protections for me, and for my family. That's all."
--Lesbian rocker Melissa Etheridge to Newsweek.
"Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo -- and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way."
William S. Burroughs
"In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling."
William S. Burroughs
"It seems to me that the real clue to your sex-orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him."
Christopher Isherwood (English born American writer. 1904-1986)
I'm like a blind lesbian in a fish market
"Why do we have to recycle the old conflict so many times: first we fight about slavery, then segregation, then gender, and now sexual orientation? Why can't people look at the phrase 'liberty and justice for all' and simply accept out that 'all' means 'all.' "
"Change breeds fear: Homosexuality is a discovery, not a choice or a sin."
Vangie Jones
"The epitome of evil is having spiritual leaders condone hate, in the name of God, against others such as our gay brothers and sisters."
Rory Lewis, performer
"We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is the same with homosexuality. The orientation is a given, not a matter of choice. It would be crazy for someone to choose to be gay, given the homophobia that is present."
Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican Archbishop
"If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all."
Henry Seidel Canby
"Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on."
"I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward heavenly salvation or hellish punishment. I pursue the good in life because it is beautiful and attracts me; and shun the bad because it is ugly and repulsive. All our acts should originate from the spring of unselfish love, whether there be a continuation after death or not."
Heinrich Hein
ADAM: All right, so you're just gay! That's fine! It's the best kind of gay, your kind of gay. It's not--
DREW: It's not a reaction to anything, it's just the way you are.
ADAM: Yeah! Half the gay people you talk to, their folks are born-again Christians who've been ramming this B.S. down their throat for so long that they just went, "All right, what would give Dad a heart attack the quickest? 'Hi, I'm gay.'" Or some camp counselor gets hold of them when they're eleven and screws around with them, and magically they're gay, even though it's supposedly all their own decision. But Chase here is just gay! He's right-out-of-the-box gay! That's fine! All right!
from Lovelines
"I wear a T-shirt that says 'The family tree stops here'"
Suzanne Westenhoefer, lesbian comic
"If they don't call you a lesbian, you're probably not accomplishing anything."
Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler
"I'm so bored, I can't move.." - Kris
"I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut." -Ellen DeGeneres
For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian.
~Mabel Maney
Why should I paint dead fish, onions, and beer glasses?
Girls are so much prettier.
~ Marie Laurencin, artist
I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
~ Rita Mae Brown
If God didn't want homosexuals, he would've made straight men better in bed.
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting" ~E.E. Cummings
"There's nothing more sexy then a women making another women laugh."
“Love and commitment is not exactly in surplus in this country. The main tragedy, what undermines marriage, is divorce.” - Ralph Nader
"I think culturally we're going through a huge change. I look at it in a human context because I have friends in those situations, and it's terrible. All we owe people is dignity, respect and civil rights. I think the country will evolve." - Teresa Heinz Kerry
“A love that defies all logic is sometimes the most logical thing in the world.” - Unknown
Gay people should be allowed to get married. Just because somebody's gay doesn't mean he shouldn't suffer like the rest of us.
-- Jeff Shaw
We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
-- Robin Williams
"It's not that I don't like penises. I just don't like them on men." -- lesbian comic, Lea Delaria
Those who are prejudiced against gays start out by saying homosexuality isn't natural "because animals don't do it." When it's pointed out that yes, animals certainly do, they simply flip-flop and say "well, people aren't animals!" -- William Stosine
"If it weren't for gays, honey, there wouldn't be a Hollywood" - Liz Taylor
"Should a bullet enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door." - Harvey Milk
"It doesn't bother me (having a gay following). They can fantasize about me all they want, I don't mind." - Ricky Martin, singer
"What do gay men and women do on a second date? The gay men - what second date? Gay women? - Buy a U-haul." - Amy Goodho
"A lot of people wonder how you know if you're really in love. Just ask yourself this one question: Would I mind being financially destroyed by this person?" - Ronnie Shakes
"Sometimes, I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door, and just visit now and then." --Katharine Hepburn
"Ever since I had that interview in which I said I was bisexual it seems twice as many people wave at me in the street." Elton John.
"Like many other men, I too have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed." - Marlon Brando.
"I think every straight guy should have another man's tongue in his mouth at least once." - Madonna.
"It wasn't easy telling may parents that I'm gay. I made my carefully worded announcement at Thanksgiving. It was very Norman Rockwell. I said, "Mom, would you please pass the gravy to a homosexual?" She passed it to my father. A terrible scene followed." -Bob Smith
"I don't care what your sexual orientation is, you don't have to be drunk to want to have sex with Catherine DeNueve."
- Susan Sarandon in The Celluloid Closet
Friend: Is (girlfriends name) dutch?
Me: uhhh...no, shes german, why?
Friend:oh, b/c if she was i would say you were like the little dutch boy putting your fingers in dykes.
(talking about being a lesbian) "Why not? You get to have sex, swap shoes, and that toilet seat stays down at all times. Sure, you might have to fight over a blow dryer every now and then- but when you've got someone nearby who knows how important it is to hold your hair while you throw up, who's complaining?" -Janice Dickinson
"Dip me in chocolate and throw me to the lesbians." - Bumper sticker.
"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision"
--Lavner, Lynn
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."
--Anon.
"Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women."
Rita Mae Brown quotes
"It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain."
Francis Maude
"The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft we can all declare homosexuality instead of running off to Canada."
Lorne Bloch
"Gay men and women cannot just disappear from our hometowns. That's where we have the most influence." - Kirk Read
This game is ugly, the inner circle is ugly, and I'm out. Peace! Rachel RR11
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves-Abraham Lincoln
"I'm not a lesbian - but my girlfriend is.."
Never been bullied into silence.Never allow yourself to be made a victim.Accept no one 's definition of your life;define yourself.~Harvey Fierstein
"Soul Meets Soul On Lover's Lips"
unknown
Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a Lesbian.
Fran Lebowitz
Queer by Nature, Proud by Choice
"Nothing is unnatural - just untried"
~~~Rita Mae Brown
"Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me."
~~~Ned Rorem (Composer)
If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come from? ~Author Unknown
Drag is when a man wears everything a lesbian won't. ~Author Unknown
"We (women) don't say what we want! But we do reserve the right to get pissed off if we don't get what we want!!"
"They" say the Apple never falls far from the tree....thank God we have legs instead of pips!!
DON'T YOU DARE ASSUME I'M STRAIGHT!
lesbians.taste the rainbow.
"Dude, women rock in so many ways that if we were still in charge of things, there would be a lot more love in the world. PMS-ey at times but much better than the alternative."
-Louise Ball
Within you I lose myself...without you I find myself wanting to be lost again...
"If you can make a girl laugh...you can make her do
anything." -Marylin Monroe
"True love and passion is not something exclusive to a relationship between a man and a woman. I could fall in love with another woman. I don't think it's unnatural at all." - Angelina Jolie
"It is wrong to invoke the love of God in order that one person's 'values' might diminish another's value. Those who claim that homosexual people threaten to dismantle the value of heterosexual marriage would do well to remember that if anyone destroys marriage, it is married people, not gays and lesbians."
- Right Rev. Dr. Peter Short
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
"It is wrong to invoke the love of God in order that one person's 'values' might diminish another's value. Those who claim that homosexual people threaten to dismantle the value of heterosexual marriage would do well to remember that if anyone destroys marriage, it is married people, not gays and lesbians."
"They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that."-Angelina Jolie
"And barefoot or first thing in the morning, I feel beautiful. Because I feel like me. I didn't always feel that way, but I feel that way now. When somebody just loves you, and when you make somebody happy, when your presence seems to make them happy, you suddenly feel like the most beautiful person in the world."-Angelina Jolie
"What's most depressing is when homosexuality makes people uncomfortable. Especially when it's people you care about, and simply want to be yourself around."-LMH
"If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach."-Margaret Cho (Bisexual Comic)
Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it."-Margaret Cho (Bisexual Comic)
"A woman has so much more to offer than a man in so many ways. We are sensitive,beautiful,soft and nurturing. How could you not want to fall in love with that?"
If homosexuality is a disease, lets all call in queer to work, "Hello. Can't work today, still queer." - Robin Tyler
A woman goes to the gynecologist, and upon examination, the doctor says, "Why, it's immaculate in here! What do you do to keep yourself so hygenic?" The woman responds, "I have a woman in twice a week."
The opportunity to be threatened, humiliated and to live in fear of being beaten to death is the only 'special right' our culture bestows on homosexuals.
Diane Carman, Denver Post
If ur a lesbian, ur born a lez and will die a lez
just because you're a lesbian doesn't mean you're less a bein' - marge simpson
"Love needs to build a bridge between her heart and the Dairy Queen."- talking about Ashley Judd in scene of Frida
"Pope John Paul today confirmed his opposition to gay marriages, said they're unnatural. Gay marriage is unnatural. Then he put on a pointy hat, his dress, and returned to never having sex at all." -Bill Maher
"I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food."
- michael stipe -
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"These quotes have brought the forum to a new low. A low so low that whomever comes across this site will have their bodies instantly crushed from the pressure."
"Teaching kids about homosexuality will make them gay. Just like teaching them languages will make them foreign." - Anon
"Girls. Soft and good." -Paul Buchman
It is the timbre of voice that comes from not being heard, noticed only by others not being heard for the same reason...Audre Lorde
"If someone as deluded as I was can be brought out of homosexuality then surely anyone can." - Joe Dallas, Speaker, Focus on the Family's Love Won Out conference
Homosexuality is God`s way of ensuring that the truly gifted aren`t burdened with children. - Sam Austin
Gay people should be allowed to get married. Just because somebody's gay doesn't mean he shouldn't suffer like the rest of us. - Jeff Shaw
We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture. - Robin Williams
"The next time someone asks you, 'Hey, howdja get to be a homosexual anyway?' tell them, 'Homosexuals are chosen first on talent, then interview, then the swimsuit and evening gown competition pretty much gets rid of the rest of them." - Karen Williams
"It's not that I don't like penises. I just don't like them on men." - Lesbian comic, Lea Delaria
Those who are prejudiced against gays start out by saying homosexuality isn't natural "because animals don't do it." When it's pointed out that yes, animals certainly do, they simply flip-flop and say "well, people aren't animals!" - William Stosine
"If it weren't for gays, honey, there wouldn't be a Hollywood" - Liz Taylor
"Sometimes, I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door, and just visit now and then." - Katharine Hepburn
"Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine!" - Whoopi Goldberg
"Like many other men, I too have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed." - Marlon Brando
"I think every straight guy should have another man's tongue in his mouth at least once." - Madonna
"It wasn't easy telling may parents that I'm gay. I made my carefully worded announcement at Thanksgiving. It was very Norman Rockwell. I said, "Mom, would you please pass the gravy to a homosexual?" She passed it to my father. A terrible scene followed." - Bob Smith
"This sweet little blond girl [from The Sonny & Cher Show] turned out to be a big dyke. There's something wonderful about that, because that's life." - Chastity Bono to USA Today.
"For so long I was hoping it wasn't true [that you were a lesbian], and then when it was true, I just felt I had done something wrong. 'If I had been a better mother' - all of the stupid things that people from Ohio are supposed to feel, not mothers who are Cher, who have lots of gay friends and all that shit. As far as I was concerned, I really wasn't supposed to feel that way, because it wasn't liberal of me at all. It wasn't really who I thought I was, but it didn't make any difference. Those were my feelings, and even though I am not very proud of them, that is what it was for me; that was my experience, and I cannot try to lessen it by pretending that it wasn't. Nor am I ashamed of it. I was surprised by it. The reason I am not ashamed by it is that I was in so much pain about it, and I don't really know why. But it was genuine, unbelievable pain." - Cher in an Advocate interview with her lesbian daughter, journalist Chastity Bono
"To a large segment of our society, gay people are viewed as sexual outlaws... God forbid a straight person should acknowledge that there are pleasures associated with their anus. That's a big, big door that people don't want to open." - NewsRadio TV actor Phil Hartman to Los Angeles magazine.
"The gay label doesn't really bother me, as long as it's just not something that is restrictive. I just don't think one should live one's life as a gay man. I don't think that sexuality necessarily implies a life style package that comes with it."
- The Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant to the Washington Blade.
"I was 18 or 19 when I helped [actor Montgomery Clift] realize that he was homosexual, and I barely knew what I was talking about. I was a virgin when I was married and not a world expert on sexuality. But I loved Monty with all my heart and just knew that he was unhappy. I knew that he was meant to be with a man and not a woman, and I discussed it with him. I introduced him to some really nice young guys."
- Elizabeth Taylor to The Advocate.
"I'm sort of a gay success story, a very inspirational one. What happened to me is exactly the opposite of what closeted people fear: They think they'll lose everything if they come out. This did not happen to me at all. In fact, everything came back tenfold."
- Rocker Melissa Etheridge to The Advocate.
"I've always been openly gay. It would never occur to me to behave otherwise."
- Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus Ringmaster Eric Michael Gillet to Atlanta's Etcetera magazine.
"The femme ones. The long-haired, beautiful babes. And young, young, young! I always say that if they're old enough to be in my field of vision, they're old enough for me!"
- Comic Lea DeLaria when asked by Cleveland's Gay People's Chronicle,
"What kind of girl gets your attention?"
"I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?"
- Elton John, accepting a Distinguished Achievement Award from Elizabeth Taylor at the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center's 25th anniversary blowout.
"I do not impersonate women. How many women do you know who march around in 7-inch heels, 3-foot wigs and skin-tight outfits? Women don't wear that, _drag queens_ wear that! The public persona of RuPaul is just a fabulous, eye-popping celebrity package designed to work well in front of the camera."
- RuPaul to Chicago's BLACKlines.
"Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out."
- Tennis champ Martina Navratilova to San Francisco Bay Times.
"It's time for state legislators to see the type of depravity taking place during this annual event during ‘Gay Days at Walt Disney World."
- Martin Mawyer, pres. Christian Action Network, as he unveiled a display of photos of gay men kissing holding hands and alegedly having sex at Gay Days.
"I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never wondered whether it was acceptable or not. Anyway, who really cares whether I'm gay or straight?"
- Pop singer George Michael to Britain's Big Issue magazine.
"It _really_ bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with _your_ mother."
- Cher's lesbian daughter, Chastity Bono, to Oregon's Just Out.
"Most times, the only gay or lesbian face people know of is who they see in the pride parade. To judge us on that would be like judging heterosexuals after watching Mardi Gras."
- Candace Gingrich, House Speaker Newt Gingrich's lesbian sister, to the Baltimore Alternative.
"If they don't want me to get 'married,' if that's bugging 'them' - fine. But I do believe that as an American citizen, a law-abiding, taxpaying - major taxpaying - citizen, that I should be allowed the same rights, the same pursuit of happiness that every other citizen enjoys. ... Whatever they want to call it. As long as we have the same legal benefits and protections for me, and for my family. That's all."
- Lesbian rocker Melissa Etheridge to Newsweek.
The most important political step that any gay man or lesbian can take is to come out of the closet. It's been proven that it is easier to hate us and to fear us if you can't see us.
Amanda Bearse
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend your right to say it." - Patrick Henry
"Let's get something straight...I'm NOT!"
"Nobody knows I'm a lesbian"
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a person, extraordinary things begin to happen.
-Loretta Girzartis
"I hate what you have to say but will defend to the death your right to say It!" Voltaire
They say the bible syas it is wrong for a woman to be with another woman... The bible also says it is ok for fathers to sell their daughters into slavery. Not everything fits in todays society
-Josie
"Even when people doubt who you are
because they homophobic remember you are you are no matter what and as long as you're okay with it nothing else matters." Anonymous
Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up that's all. -Joan Jett
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -Virginia Woolf
Instead of growing hatred for your kindred simply because of the way they act and dress, your time might be better spent joining hands and standing against the institution that condemns the lifestyle you share; do not forget that different people in the same minority are coping with similar problems.
If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come from? ~Author Unknown
"Why are we fighting each other on the way we choose to dress, wear our hair, and act? We should be fighting the people who unite us in the first place. The people who think that we are morally wrong. We should be fighting them, not each other."
"we always knew your lifestyle, why do you think we got you comfortable shoes?" - MadTV
Queer by Nature, Proud by Choice
"What's most depressing is when homosexuality makes people uncomfortable. Especially when it's people you care about, and simply want to be yourself around."-LMH
"When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference. That reward will go to those who dared to step outside the safety of their privacy in order to expose and rout the prevailing prejudices."
*While inspecting my crammed closet* No wonder you came out of the closet, there's no room in here!
"One is taught by experience to put a premium on the few people who can appreciate you for what you are." ~Gail Godwin
"When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference. That reward will go to those who dared to step outside the safety of their privacy in order to expose and rout the prevailing prejudices."
"Dick Cheney feels responsible for his daughter being a lesbian because growing up, she heard him say 'go f--k yourself' so many times, she finally tried it."
-- Bill Maher
Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a Lesbian.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Whatever floats your Anti-Penis boat.
"I've had to fight to be myself and to be respected. I'm proud to carry this stigma and call myself a lesbian. I don't boast about it or broadcast it, but I don't deny it. I've had to confront society and the Church, which says that homosexuals are damned. That's absurd. How can someone who's born like this be judged? I didn't attend lesbian classes. No one taught me to be this way. I was born this way, from the moment I opened my eyes in this world. I've never been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am." - Chavela Vargas
Queer by Nature, Proud by Choice
If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. ~Robin Tyler
Lesbian Ninjas: first they kick ass, and then they lick ass.
Graham Hill
The most important political step that any gay man or lesbian can take is to come out of the closet. It's been proven that it is easier to hate us and to fear us if you can't see us.
Amanda Bearse
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
--Rita Mae Brown
I was a lesbian poster child.
Claudia Christian
As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.
Lea DeLaria
I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes.
Angelina Jolie
Well, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body... but it's more complicated than that.
Tony Parker
I spent my whole childhood going, 'Oh my God... All right, fine. I may be attracted to women, but I can't be a lesbian. I like Laura Ashley polished cottons! And I throw like a girl! And I cry for no apparent reason all the time! Oh my God, I'm a gay man!'
Vickie Shaw
primal1: Have you ever used fruits or vegetables during sex?
luv2luvgirls: It's much better when someone else applies veggies to you
"Don't knock Masturbation. It's sex with someone I love." - Woody Allen
Even when people doubt who you are
because they homophobic remember you are you are no matter what and as long as you're okay with it nothing else matters." Anonymous
"They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that."-Angelina Jolie
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women...no woman has excited passions among women more than I have. - Florence
these quotes used to be on the random quote generator on the website www.gwlgonline.com. i decided i would put them here for your reading pleasure
some quotes are probably repeated...sorry...