14 Quotes by Michael Bronski

The progress of LGBT rights is often directly tied to – sometimes through indirect routes – multiple fights for human dignity and freedom.

In eighteenth-century Great Britain, “molly” was used so frequently to describe men, often gender deviant, who desired other men that the private homes or tavern rooms in which they congregated were called Molly Houses.

Shame... is a first rate form of social control. Shame is what keeps us in line, what prevents us from discovering not so much who we are, but what we might become.

Full citizenship was, and to a large degree still is, predicated on keeping ‘unacceptable’ behavior private. This complicated relationship between the public and private is at the heart of LGBT history and life today.

When describing Tarzan’s killing habits, Burroughs is quite clear about what makes an ideal man: He killed for food most often, but being a man, he sometimes killed for pleasure, a thing which no other animal does; for it has remained for man alone among all the creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasures of inflicting suffering and death.19.