988 Quotes About Lgbt

I never dreamed that one day I would be married to a woman, and that my dad's position at Focus would divide me from my family, rather than keep us focused on it, but that's what happened.

The newer word “gay” was perhaps even worse, reminding him of limp-wristed men simulating ridiculously the opposite sex in the ludicrous hope of attracting a real specimen of their own.

Quite apart from cringing at the thought of being called queer or gay, he did not want to be labelled anything at all that would cause presumptions to be made about his tastes and aspirations in life, which he did not think were anyway very different from most people’s.

Bisexuals are either way less or way more hated by a homophobe.

Some people became parents mainly or only to hide the fact that they are sexually attracted only to people of the same sex.

In ancient Greece and Rome being the penetrator was synonymous with being a man. Anything that subverted the concept of masculinity was punished with social ostracism and ridicule. And nothing mocked masculinity more than getting penetrated. Greeks and Romans didn’t really care whom you had sex with (women, men, boys, slaves) as long as you were the penetrator.

Preference," Hamish grumbled. "I've never liked that word. It always comes with the intonation that another option is still viable.

I am jealous. I’m envious of the easy options all the rest of you enjoy. To date someone or not to date someone? Does she like him? Does he like her? You can try out whatever you like and change your minds at any time. Everyone is available to everyone else. Me? I might be permitted to admire someone from afar, to harbor a yearning in secret, but to act on it would cost me everything.

Any degree of concern with someone else’s sex life is too much, unless they are your dependent, or you are or want to be part of it.