Quotes About Stigma

In my experience the difference between a straight and a bisexual is about four pints

In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

Straight guys who hate or agaist gay men, usually had a fear or afraid of being gay themself.

If society didn't label a man as 'weak' for communicating his feelings and showing his emotions more relationships would last.

I remembered how in all the stories of my childhood the women were always hanging themselves.

Aquiles se sonrojó como si le hubieran abofeteado. Una cosa era llevar un vestido, impelido por la necesidad, y otra muy distinta que todos lo supieran. Nuestro pueblo reservaba los más feos apelativos para los hombres que actuaban como mujeres; semejantes insultos habían provocado la pérdida de muchas vidas.

It was one thing to wear a dress out of necessity, another thing for the world to know of it. Our people reserved their ugliest names for men who acted like women; lives were lost over such insults.

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

I nazisti odiavano gli ebrei più di quanto odiassero gli zingari. E però gli altri prigionieri disprezzavano gli zingari più degli ebrei. Il fatto era che nessuno, a parte le puttane e i ladri, sembrava disprezzare gli ebrei, mentre tutti si permettevano di disprezzare gli zingari.

With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.

Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know.

But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.

Depression is good at making you think it's not even there and that you are the problem. Depression wants you to think you made a choice to be this way.

If more people understand the reality of mental illness and get disabused of the Hollywood myths about it, the stigma about getting help will diminish, and then we'll live in a healthier society.

Only decades later would it dawn on me that normal people who never deal with depression have a sense of self-worth automatically. Just by being a person on the earth, they feel themselves worthy of respect and love and all that other cool stuff.

Depression does its damage and then it hides, covering its tracks, making you think that it is not an illness, that you're just bad and weird.

Talking about depression is great and healthy, but that doesn't mean it's not exhausting.

Yes, there is discrimination against people with mental illness and, yes, it can be a scary thing to talk about. But the hunger to do so is there, and by being open yourself you can get that conversation out on the dance floor.

he didn't exactly have the "programmer" look to him, if you know what I mean. He'd be the programmer's boss. The one they hated. The one who made them work on holidays.

You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough.

Not that I expected him to know; he didn't exactly have the "programmer" look to him, if you know what I mean. He'd be the programmer's boss. The one they hated. The one who made them work on holidays.