queer quotes

We're here, We're queer. 1970 Get used to it.

-Anonymous
  Motto of the homosexual liberation movement, Queer Nation, which rejected use of the term'gay'. Quoted in the New York Times, 6  Apr.

   'Scotland! a queer country that, your honour!' 'So it is,' said I; 'a queerer country I never saw in all my life.' 'And a queer set of people, your honour.' 'So they are,'said I; 'a queerer set of people than the Scotch you would scarcely see in a summer's day.'

- George Henry Borrow
  Wild Wales, ch.83.

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

- Rita Mae Brown
  Speech, 28  Aug, at the opening ceremony of the Gay Olympics, San Francisco.

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

- Allen Ginsberg
  Howl and Other Poems,'America'.

  A man's a fool to look at things too near: They look back, and begin to cut up queer.

-WilliamVaughn Moody
  'The Menagerie'.

All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

- Robert Owen
Attributed. Said to his partner W  Allen when they ended their business relationship.

Technology†is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

- C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron Snow
In the NewYorkTimes,15 Mar.