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

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

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

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)