Trust a nitwit society like this one to think that there are only two categories — fag and straight. – Gore Vidal (1925–2012)
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. – Woody Allen (b.1935)
The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. – Gore Vidal (1925–2012)
My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind of hard for him to come out of the closet. – Bill Kelly
As long as society is anti-gay, then it will seem like being gay is anti-social. – Joseph Francis
My urges to write poetry are lesbian, but whatever compels me to prose is straight. – Agavé Powers, 1994
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, psychotherapist, 1988
Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble. – Nora Ephron, Heartburn, 1983
If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens. – Bert Randolph Sugar (1937–2012)
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
Homosexuality is a sickness, just as are baby-rape or wanting to become head of General Motors. – Eldridge Cleaver, "Notes on a Native Son," Soul on Ice, 1968
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, c.1975
Thus, while many minority groups are the target for prejudice (beliefs) and discrimination (actions) 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 and Karen M. Harbeck, 1992
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
It seems certain that a femininely functioning brain can occupy a male body, and vice versa. – Jas G. Kiernan, M.D., “Psychological Aspects of the Sexual Appetite,” read befor
Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery. – Hart Crane
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anaïs Nin
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. – Agnes Repplier
Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. – Matthew Arnold, "Self-Dependence," Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems,
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. – Clifton Fadiman
