Homosexuality

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

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

Being gay is natural. Hating gay is a lifestyle choice. – John Fugelsang, 2013 tweet

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? – Ernest Gaines

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

If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. – James Baldwin, “Disturber of the Peace,” interview with Eve Auchincloss and Nanc

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats. – Elton John (b.1947)

As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children. – Anita Bryant, 1977

Anita Bryant like Anita hole in the head. – Graffiti

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. – W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

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 (1914–2002)

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 (b.1958)

If male homosexuals are called “gay,” then female homosexuals should be called “ecstatic.” – Shelly Roberts

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 (b.1958)

One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness. – Towards a Quaker View of Sex, 1964

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

I have the solution to the “problem” of gays in the military: 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. – Robert Patrick, Los Angeles, California, letter to the editor, The Advocate, 199

You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need…. And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy. – Melissa Etheridge, "Silent Legacy," Yes I Am, 1993

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 (1908–1986)