Homosexual Quotes

“You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“States vote to take away my marriage rights, and even though I don't want to get married, it tends to hurt my feelings. I guess what bugs me is that it was put to a vote in the first place. If you don't want to marry a homosexual, then don't. But what gives you the right to weigh in on your neighbor's options? It's like voting whether or not redheads should be allowed to celebrate Christmas.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.

“Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying Little League-coaching nation-serving respectably married citizens. So why not welcome them in Why not recruit them by the vanload to sweep in on heroic wings and save the flagging and battered old institution of matrimony from a bunch of apathetic ne'er-do-well heterosexual deadbeats like me”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.”
― Anthony Venn-Brown, A Life of Unlearning - a journey to find the truth

“Sometimes, when he was not near me, I thought, I will never let him 'Touch' me again. Then, when he 'Touched' me, I thought, it doesn't matter, it is only the body, it will soon be over. When it was over, I lay in the dark and listened to his breathing and dreamed of the 'Touch' of hands, of Giovanni's hands, or anybody's hands, hands which would have the power to crush me and make me whole again.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Now of all the bonds between homosexual friends, none was greater than that between friends who danced together. The friend you danced with, when you had no lover, was the most important person in your life; and for people who went without lovers for years, that was all they had.”
― Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance

“Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys. Adolescence. The first date, the first kiss, the first chance to hold hands with someone special. Delayed, postponed, a decade's worth of longing--while everybody around you celebrates life, you pretend, suppress, inhibit, deprive yourself of you own joy--but finally ultimately, eventually, you find a place where you can have a taste of everything denied.”
― David Gerrold

“George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with”
― Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade

“Homophobia and the closet are allies. Like an unhealthy co-dependent relationship they need each other to survive. One plays the victim living in fear and shame while the other plays the persecutor policing what is ‘normal’. The only way to dismantle homophobia is for every gay man and lesbian in the world to come out and live authentic lives. Once they realise how normal we are and see themselves in us….the controversy is over.”
― Anthony Venn-Brown, A Life of Unlearning - a journey to find the truth

“I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men.”
― Michel Tremblay

“Even if you believe the Genesis record of creation you’ll see that God did not create a black and white world of male and female. Creation is not black and white, it is amazingly diverse, like a rainbow, including sexualities and a variety of non-heterosexual expressions of behaviour, affection and partnering occurring in most species, including humans. The ability to reproduce is only a small part of the creation. Before God created male and female he made an even more important statement; ‘it is not good for mankind to be alone’. This is fundamental to all heterosexual and same-sex relationships. Lasting relationships are based on love, trust and commitment, not sex or reproduction. So stop with the ‘God created Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve’ quote already. It’s boring and an insult to the creator of this incredible universe.”
― Anthony Venn-Brown, A Life of Unlearning - a journey to find the truth

“Masters points out that the heterosexuals were at a disadvantage, as they do not benefit from what he called “gender empathy”. Doing unto your partner as you would do unto yourself only works well when you’re gay.”
― Mary Roach, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

“See, the institutions and specialist, experts, you see. Yes, yes,
experts, indeed. See, they would have us believe that there is an order
to art. An explanation. Humans are odd creatures in that way. Always
searching for a formula. Yes, a formula to create an expected norm for
unexplainable greatness. A cook book you might say. Yes, a recipe
book for life, love, and art. However, my dear, let me tell you. Yes,
there is no such thing. Every individual is unique in their own design,
as intended by God himself. We classify, yes, always must we classify,
for if not, then we would be lost, yes lost now wouldn't we?
Classification, order, expectations, but alas, we forget. For what is art,
if not the out word expression of an artist. It is the soul of the artisan
and if his expectations are met, than who are we to judge whether his
work be art or not?”
― Cristina Marrero, The Unsung Love Story

“The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies on overcoming the latter instead of attacking the former.”
― Anthony Venn-Brown, A Life of Unlearning - a journey to find the truth

“You couldn't catch this gay if you had tickets to Hamilton.”
― Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World

“Perhaps he was only a homosexual, but I didn't want to take any chances.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“El personaje de mi libro es, hablando en términos generales, bueno, pero la Sociedad llega casi a destruirlo, está a punto de deslizarse por su vida furtivo y asustado, abrumado por su conciencia de culpa (...) ¡Pero acusemos a la Sociedad, no a Maurice, y demos gracias de que, aunque sea una novela, cuando se permite a un hombre elegir el mejor camino, sea capaz de hacerlo!”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“Él podía morir por un amigo así, podía permitir que un amigo así muriese por él; harían cualquier sacrificio el uno por el otro, y nada contaba el mundo, ni la muerte ni la distancia ni las contrariedades, nada de esto podía separarlos, porque «este es mi amigo».”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“Desde el partido de críquet tengo muchas ganas de hablarle rodeándole con uno de mis brazos, y de abrazarle después, y no digo más porque son cosas tan dulces que no pueden decirse con palabras.”
― E.M. Forster

“Adam and Eve, God's first image-bearers, made to love and reflect God in creation, had now become the world's first sinners.
Everyone born after Adam inherited it. And, just like Eve, I from birth, would experience the remnants of her dealings with the serpent. Being born human meant that I had the capacity for affection and logic. Being born sinful meant both were inherently broken... Desires exist because God gave them to us. But homosexual desires exist because sin does. Loving Him, as were were created to do, involves both the will and the affections, but sin steals this love God placed in us for Himself and tells it to go elsewhere.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been

“Just like you can't convert a lie into truth, you can't be a man and become a woman just because you want to.”
― Brother Pedro

“If only I could be a woman. With soft hands, big breasts and long hair. To have men fawn all over me, to see them rise and fall. Alas, but all I have is small feet.”
― Ekta Kumar, Box of Lies: A Love Story, Without Love

“Es como si lo que le excitara no fuera su propio placer sino el placer que provoca en los demás. Eso es la hostia, decían. Si todos fuéramos como él. El puto altruista. El puto que da placer sin pedir nada a cambio, que está dispuesto a todo porque su placer es el de los otros. Por eso abría tanto los ojos, porque quería verlo todo, se acercaba tanto a las bocas para oír los gemidos y hasta los gritos. Para oler el deseo de él en los otros.”
― Luigé Martín, Lo Que No Se Dice

“The greatest fear of the American male is that he will be homosexual. Beginning with the stern warnings he recieves as a young boy about overly friendly men in public parks, through the adolescent shaming prompted by the slightest hint of effeminacy, to the suspicion provoked by an interest in artistic pursuits, he is conditioned to believe that homosexuality is incompatible with manhood. From his family to his friends, in his church and at his workplace, from the realm of the everyday experience to the popular culture surrounding him, the message is unambigious that there is absolutely nothing worse in the world than to be a sissy, a faggot, a queer.”
― James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

“It was 3:15 in the morning of June 26, 1980, and Congressman Bob Livingston was extraordinarily drunk, hiding in the Congressional Gym beneath the Rayburn House Office Building, petrified that a team of highly trained right-wing homosexuals working on behalf of Ronald Reagan was about to kill him.”
― James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

“El sexo sin amor conoce el desamor. El amor sin sexo también conoce el amor. El amor y el sexo son el anverso y reverso de las hojas del libro de la vida.”
― Alejandro Mos Riera

“I think I came out to myself eventually in high school, but the church and organized religion definitely didn't help the situation.”
― Emma Goswell, Coming Out Stories - Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum

“There wasn't any physical abuse but there was a lot of emotional abuse. It was a lot of shit to take.”
― Emma Goswell, Coming Out Stories - Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum

“I think as much as you can, follow your heart and trust your gut instinct because that's going to help you gauge how you approach your family and your friends. Be realistic. Hope for the best, but at the same time understand that not everyone might be okay with you in the beginning or further along. But trust your gut and be true to yourself because that is what is going to get you through the good times and the bad.

And talk to the man in the mirror, or the woman in the mirror, or the whoever the fuck you want to be and are in the mirror!”
― Emma Goswell, Coming Out Stories - Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum

“Every queer person born before 2010 had to be a self taught cultural archaeologist as a child, forced as we were to sift through compacted layers of heterocentric history to excavate even the tiniest glints of queer representation.”
― Komail Aijazuddin, Manboobs: A Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hope, and Cake