Homosexuality Quotes
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Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.
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I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.
Harold Brodkey— 1996 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.
There is probably no sensitive heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.
Norman Kingsley Mailer— 1959 Advertisements for Myself,'The Homosexual Villain'.
Today in many western countries, nobody dares question the Holocaust whose nature is questionable. According to the reports I have received, in America if people decide to write something against homosexuality on the basis of psychological and sociological principles, they will be prevented from publishing their work. How is it that these people feel obligated to respect freedom of expression?
ali khamenei— September 17, 2012 comments made during a graduation ceremony at Imam Khomeini Naval Academy in Noshahr
There is probably no sensitive heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.
norman mailer— "The Homosexual Villain"
— This has also been misquoted as: "There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality."
There is no equality between our culture and the retarded Islamic culture. Look at their views on homosexuality or women.
geert wilders— The Guardian 'I don't hate Muslims. I hate Islam' (17 February 2008)
homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider not only immoral, but filthy.
— Pat Buchanan, New York Post, September 3, 1989.
Il n'y avait pas d'anormaux quand l'homosexualite e tait la norme. There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.
Marcel Proust— ' 1921 A la recherche du temps perdu,'Sodome et Gomorrhe'.
Fifty three per cent children in India face sexual abuse – both boys and girls – but we still feel uncomfortable talking about it. We are still hypocrites when it comes to issues like child abuse, sex or for that matter homosexuality. It is high time that we brought the issue from under the carpet.
rahul bose— Times of India, September 26, 2009, "Rahul Bose: We are all hypocrites"
As you know I have been preaching along with El Duce and Sickie Wifebeater for many years against homosexuality in rock and it's time to take revenge on people that try to stop rock. The real rock, hetero rock. There for Bowie is going on trial within Rock Kourt.
steve broy— YouTube video by Dr. Heathen Scum at YouTube video at YouTube
If homosexuality was the normal way, God would have made Adam and Bruce.
anita bryant— Parting Glances: Oranges & lemons sliced (February 2, 2006)
The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.
Quentin Crisp— Ch. 3 (The Naked Civil Servant (1968))
Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.
Quentin Crisp— Ch. 6 (How to Become a Virgin (1981))
The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
sydney j. harris— On Jess Stearn’s The Sixth Man, Saturday Review (April 22, 1961)
This pioneer of sexology [Krafft-Ebing] even came to question whether homosexuality might be innate (and people began to forgive us for living, as if it would matter to anyone if being an Atlético de Madrid fan was innate or not.)
miss shangay lily— Miss Shangay Lily, Mari, ¿me pasas el poppers?
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone de Beauvoir— As quoted in Bisexual Characters in Film: From Anaïs to Zee (1997) by Wayne M. Bryant, p. 143
There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.
Michel Foucault— As quoted in Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day (2001) by Robert Aldrich and Gary Wotherspoon ISBN 041522974X
We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today.
thomas szasz— p. 161 (The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997))
The crime [homosexuality] was subject to punishment by both secular and ecclesiastical courts just as now it is subject to punishment by both penal and psychiatric sanctions.
thomas szasz— p. 164 (The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997))
The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide conceals the fact that homosexuals are a group of medically stigmatized and socially persecuted individuals. ... Their anguished cries of protest are drowned out by the rhetoric of therapy just as the rhetoric of salvation drowned out the [cries] of heretics.
thomas szasz— p. 168 (The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997))
My contention is that the psychiatric perspective on homosexuality is but a thinly disguised replica of the religious perspective which it displaced, and that efforts to “treat” this kind of conduct medically are but thinly disguised methods for suppressing it.
thomas szasz— pp. 170-171 (The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997))
There are many who wish to believe that premarital sex causes venereal diseases, that homosexuality causes AIDS... This is simply not true; infectious diseases are caused by infectious agents.
— P. Skrabanek, "Preventive Medicine and Morality," Lancet 1 (8473)(1986): 143.
"The dilemma of traditional sex research lay in the unconscious, but unquestiongly assumed division into opposing drives and hereditary factors . . . The division into heterosexuality and homosexuality, into heterosexuals and homosexuals, is also an artefact that rests on a grave error, namely, on the assumption that a fundamentally different model is necessary to explain heteorsexual and homosexual behavior. The entire investigation of etiology was ideologically loaded beforehand because it separated a segment of the sexual contiuum and attempted to make analyses with the help of fundamentally different concepts."
— Rolf Gindorf, "Scientific ideologies in change: Fear of Homosexuality as an Intellectual Event", 1977
The dilemma of traditional sex research lay in the unconscious, but unquestiongly assumed division into opposing drives and hereditary factors. . . The division into heterosexuality and homosexuality, into hetersexuals and homosexuals, is also an artefact that rests on a grave error, namely, on the assumption that a fundamentally different model is necessary to explain heterosexual and homosexual behavior. The entire investigation of etiology was ideologically loaded beforehand because it separated a segment of the sexual contiuum and attempted to make analyses with the help of fundamentally different concepts.
— Rolf Gindorf, "Scientific ideologies in change: Fear of Homosexuality as an Intellectual Event", 1977
“If homosexuality was the normal way, God would have made Adam and Bruce"
— Anita Bryant anti-gay activist and singer. [3]
We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honor, and purity, to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling and trading with interest.
osama bin laden— Osama Bin Laden, Full text: bin Laden's "letter to America"', The Observer, November 24, 2002.
If the widespread practice of homosexuality will bring about the destruction of your nation, if it will bring about terrorist bombs, if it'll bring about earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor, it isn't necessarily something we ought to open our arms to.
— Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, August 6, 1998.
One of the most distinctive features of the current regime under which we live is the prominence of heterosexuality and homosexuality as central, organizing categories of thought, behaviour, and erotic subjectivity. The rise to dominance of those categories represents a relatively recent and culturally specific development, yet it has left little trace in our consciousness of its novelty. As a result, not only do we have a hard time understanding the logic at work in other historical cultures' organizations of sex and gender, but we have an even harder time understanding our own experiences of sexuality that are not universal.
— David M. Halperin, How To Do the History of Homosexuality, p.3. The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226314472.
The dilemma of traditional sex research lay in the unconscious, but unquestioningly assumed division into opposing drives and hereditary factors . . . The division into heterosexuality and homosexuality, into heterosexuals and homosexuals, is also an artifact that rests on a grave mistake, namely, on the assumption that a fundamentally different model is necessary to explain heterosexual and homosexual behavior. The entire investigation of etiology was ideologically loaded beforehand because it separated a segment of the sexual continuum and attempted to make analyses with the help of fundamentally different concepts.
— Rolf Gindorf, "Scientific ideologies in change: Fear of Homosexuality as an Intellectual Event", 1977
homosexuality is a crime against humanity.
— Paul Cameron, in a pamphlet titled Criminality, Social Disruption and Homosexuality, quoted by Mark E. Pietrzyk, in News-Telegraph (10 March 1995)
