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 […]
Homosexuality Quotes
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)
I got to know Kinsey in 1948 – his book came out a month after The City and the Pillar; and the shocked New York Times would not advertise either. For a time, Dr. Kinsey used the mezzanine of the Astor as a sort of office, where he would interview “human males” about their sex […]
The Astor Bar in Times Square was easily the city’s most exciting meeting place for soldiers, sailors, and marines on the prowl for one another; few civilians, and no woman, ever dared intrude on these male mysteries. Even the military police and the shore patrol kept their distance. After all, we had – all of […]
When Bill Clinton lifts the ban, he is going to push people out of the closet in the military – it’s going to push people out of the closet all over the country. It’s going to be OK to be a homosexual.
I want to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world.
The homosexual subculture based on brief, barren assignations is, in part, a dark mirror of the sex-obsessed majority culture.
