If gay and lesbian people are given civil rights, then everyone will want them! – Author unknown, as seen on a button at EvolveFISH.com, c.1998

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who dont love anybody. – Rita Mae Brown

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. – Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1978

Trust a nitwit society like this one to think that there are only two categories — fag and straight. – Gore Vidal (1925–2012)