Growing up, we didn’t have a lot of visible LGBT people on TV. And I was VERY influenced by television. It formed my aesthetic and view on fashion and design – the clothes worn by Cher and Carol Burnett on their shows really stand out. Both designed by Bob Mackie, of course. When I was […]
Homosexuality Quotes
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
It’s hard to embrace something that doesn’t embrace you.
In the 1980s, it was nasty or even dangerous to come out, but not now. Yet they’re still hiding… It’s 2022 for God’s sake.
Language has been an important weapon in the gay movement’s very swift advance. In the old days, there was sodomy: an act. In the late 19th century the word homosexuality was coined: a condition. A generation ago, the accepted term became gay: an identity. Each formulation raises the stakes: One can object to and even […]
Some years ago, the (gay) columnist Andrew Sullivan said to me that he reckoned there was more male-on-male sex in the days before the invention of gayness as a round-the- clock identity. I don’t doubt it. But that only makes the triumph of gay marriage even more impressive: In the western world a minority that […]
I would try to get between them. (Strachey, a gay man who sought exemption from military service as a conscientious objector, appearing before a military tribunal, he was grilled about his beliefs. At one point, the head of the tribunal challenged Strachey by asking, “What would you do if you saw a German soldier trying […]
If homosexuality is a disease, let’s all call in sick to work. “Hello, can’t work today. Still queer.”
The (Christian) supremacists who lead the anti-gay crusade are wrong morally. They are wrong because justice is moral, and prejudice is evil; because truth is moral and the lie of the closet is the real sin; because the claim of morality is a subtle sort of subterfuge, a stratagem which hides the real aim which […]
I was too polite to ask. (when asked if his first sexual encounter had been hetero- or homosexual)
