#Gay

"If my God damns people for love but saves them for brutle warfare, then that is not the God I know or wish to worship."

"Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely."

"What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship."

"My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take."

"For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex "knowing". Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He'd known Dante. And wonder of wonders, Dante had known him right back."

"I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay."

"But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself."

"Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights."

"I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope."

"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door."

"In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a)."

"A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person."

"I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men."

"Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way."

"There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up."

"Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!"

"Peter to Austin:"Hard-ons don't make you think less. They make you think stupid. Which makes me think you must have one 24/7."

"The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."

"The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them."

"I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like."