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Quotes About Homosexuality

My desire to write is connected with my homosexuality. I need the identity as a weapon, to match the weapon that society has against me. It doesn't justify my homosexuality. But it would give me — I feel — a license.
~ Susan Sontag
Not all homosexuals have Camp taste. But homosexuals, by and large, constitute the vanguard –and the most articulate audience– of Camp.
~ Susan Sontag
The Camp insistence on not being "serious," on playing, also connects with the homosexual's desire to remain youthful.)
~ Susan Sontag
Jake, a homosexual cop buried so deep in the closet he didn't know where to look for himself.
~ Josh Lanyon
If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?
~ Judith Butler
It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion - to be homosexual is evil.
~ Ricky Martin
Neither they nor Warren Rochelle (' Dual Attractions', 1999) nor Chris West (' Queer Fears and Critical Orthodoxies', 2002) (who focuses on homosexuality) ground their critiques in the periods in which Heinlein was writing, the editors he was writing for, or the librarians who could decide whether books did or did not make it onto the shelves in a period in which libraries were only just starting to retreat from the position of major purchasers.
~ Farah Mendlesohn
If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with "Let's Make a Deal."
~ Fran Lebowitz
The serious student of the Bible cannot dismiss homosexual behavior simply as an alternate lifestyle. Nor can it be argued that homosexuals were "born this way" or that such behavior is an illness.
~ Billy Graham
No matter how we may rationalize the practice [of homosexuality] . . . Romans 1 makes it clearly the product of a reprobate mind . . .I am not exonerating all heterosexual activity . . . When we come to Christ, we are called upon to repent of our sins and no longer to practice the ungodly patterns of living.
~ Billy Graham
It is a source of encouragement that many homosexuals report being transformed through the power of the Gospel.
~ Billy Graham
There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.
~ Boy George
Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.
~ Adam Hamilton
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
~ Yakov Smirnoff
If all the people in the world were to accept homosexuality, the practice would still be a deep, dark sin.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.
~ Camille Paglia
From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.
~ Howard Dean
Look, I don't hate homosexuals. I've always said that I love the sinner but I hate the sin.
~ Anita Bryant
I don't hate homosexuals. I love them enough to tell them the truth: that God puts them in the category with other sinners.
~ Anita Bryant
I don't think it negates your skills as a parent if you're homosexual.
~ Rosie O'Donnell
There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.
~ Boy George
And as for people shunning us because of our known association with homosexuals"—here she wiggled her eyebrows, because she sounded ridiculously like Joseph McCarthy—"I say we don't want new members who would think like that. We want people who will admire us for taking a stand and who will say, 'Yes, that's Christianity; that's how I want to live it and that's the church I want to belong to.
~ Julia Spencer-Fleming
Freud: "Overt homosexuality in women is the result of masturbation. A woman who has discovered her own clitoris is a woman who will seek the clitoris in others.
~ Julia Willis