I’d say it’s the peculiar genius of the left to have made homosexuality incredibly boring: I don’t think Cole Porter would have seen any point to being gay if it was all about lobbying for reciprocal pension benefits.
Homosexuality Quotes
Sometimes I feel that I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body – which actually works out pretty well.
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)
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 […]
