23 Quotes by Frédéric Martel‏

Paradoxically, America appears to many gays not as an imperialist nation, but since Stonewall as a symbol of their liberation.

There is no such thing as an “African man” or any uniquely African values—it is diversity that has created Africa’s greatest wealth and its identity.

You can create a real geopolitics of LGBT rights based as much on languages as on cultural boundaries.

The idea of coming out is not a natural one in Asia as it goes against the whole tradition and the morals of Confucianism. What gays frequently do in Asia is they ‘come home’: they bring their partners home, into their family, once they are a stable couple, and things are therefore known without being spoken. That is our way here of becoming gay. The Asian way.

When you reconstruct the history of the mobilization for the decriminalizing of homosexuality worldwide, you realize the important role organizations play.

Gay people are increasingly globalized and often very Americanized, but they remain deeply rooted in their individual countries and cultures.

The West has no monopoly on gay rights, nor does the East or the South own the privilege of homophobia.

Barack Obama was one of the first leading international figures to consider the issue of gay rights to be fully a question of human rights.

The link with the black question is obvious. I compare homophobia to apartheid. And that is why we must do everything to encourage the universal decriminalization of homosexuality.