304 Quotes About Homosexuality

  • Author Joanna Russ
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    I've never slept with a girl. I couldn't. I wouldn't want to. That's abnormal and I'm not, although you can't be normal unless you do what you want and you can't be normal unless you love men. To do what I wanted would be normal, unless what I wanted was abnormal, in which case it would be abnormal to please myself and normal to do what I didn't want to do, which isn't normal.

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  • Author Martin Duberman
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    There’s even less acceptance of bisexuality than homosexuality. Binary thinking still holds strong sway with the general population, and the exclusive homosexual is more understandable to the average person than is an individual who wanders the Kinsey scale with apparent—and alarming—abandon.

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

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  • Author Jo Walton
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    Maybe he [Plato] really couldn't imagine agape between men and women, and he thought agape between men wouldn't be affected by them going off to women at the festivals.Sokrates was married, and Aristotle, but never Plato.

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  • Author Lillian Faderman
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    Of course many of us were loaded with self-hate and wanted to change. How could it have been otherwise? All we heard and read about homosexuality was that crap about how we were inverts, perverts, queers — a menace to children, poison to everybody else, doomed never to be happy.

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