Gay Activism Quotes

#1. I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.

Camille Paglia

#2. In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.

Camille Paglia

#3. When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

Camille Paglia

#4. Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.

Laura Ricketts

#5. Stonewall" has come to mark the origins of gay political activism although earlier groups in countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the French movement that grew out of the May 1968 events cannot be ignored.

Chantal Zabus

#6. Slattern! What a wonderful new word. 'Slattern,' I murmur appreciatively to Patricia.
'Yes, slattern,' Bunty says firmly. 'That's what she is.'
'Not a slut like you then?' Patricia says very quietly. Loud enough to be heard, but too quiet to be believed.

Kate Atkinson

#7. Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.

Larry Kramer

#8. We struggled to understand how a contract with the so-called secular state could mandate some kind of spiritual ritual.

Maggie Nelson

#9. Goodness is no part of the definition of the God Hypothesis, merely a desirable add-on.

Richard Dawkins

#10. There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.

Camille Paglia

#11. The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.

R. Kent Hughes

#12. To devote yourself to someone else's pussy can be a means of devoting yourself to your own.

Maggie Nelson

#13. They did not see a secret door. "Let's

L.R.W. Lee

#14. Even in the Senate, I'd put up any of the stories we did against any pablum Time or Newsweek has put out on global warming. We'd link to the other side; we'd present their arguments. They do one-sided screeds.

Marc Morano

#15. You know, the guys there were so beautiful - they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.

Allen Ginsberg

#16. The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

Anderson Cooper

#17. Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

Richard E. Grant

#18. But really justice has no coordinates, no teleology.

Maggie Nelson

#19. I'm not a child," Eliza argued with the closed double doors. "I'm a grown woman. With accomplishments and bosoms and everything.

Tessa Dare

#20. Honey, when I look at you, you're right, I don't see anything similar to those other women. But don't you see? That's what makes you so special. That's why I love you.

Carly Phillips

#21. Even identical genital acts mean very different things to different people. This is a crucial point to remember, and also a difficult one. It reminds us that there is difference right where we may be looking for, and expecting, communion.

Maggie Nelson

#22. The time for blithely asserting that sleeping with whomever you want however you want is going to jam its machinery is long past.

Maggie Nelson

#23. 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

#24. My desire is to walk with God every day.

Janine Turner

#25. My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

Bayard Rustin

#26. I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.

Stephen Hadley

#27. The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

Alan Dershowitz

#28. Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in gay and lesbian politics and feminist politics.

Dean Spade

#29. I'm a trumpet player, and I sing jazz.

Colin Salmon

#30. Don't for once ever think that what you're doing is easy. If it feels that way, you're probably doing something wrong. Throwing words onto a page is easy. But writing, the real kind, is hard. It's damn hard.

Allison M. Dickson

#31. It's an illusion to believe that you can be happy when no one else is. Or that other people will not be affected by your unhappiness.

John Brockman