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

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

Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. – Matthew Arnold, "Self-Dependence," Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems,

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