What are your favorite GLBT quotes.

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First set from Queer as Folk.-

Michael (voice-over): Emmett can be a little campy. Okay, a lot campy. But you've got to admit, these days it takes real guts to be a Queen in a world full of commoners.

Ted: I think God appreciates it even more. Because he created you in his image. At least that's what I was always taught. And since God is love and God doesn't make mistakes, then you must be exactly the way he wants you to be. And that goes for every person, every planet, every mountain, every grain of sand, every song, every tear... and every faggot. We're all his, Emmett. He loves us all.

emmett: pride - is a sin!
justin: then i'm goin to hell!

Emmett: Why tell anyone? Why lose everything when it can just be your little secret? You see, it was different for me. Everyone could tell who I was from the start and it didn't make my life any easier. I've been beaten up, cursed at, spit on, ignored... but in a way it was worth it. Because I have never had to live a lie and I'm not about to start now. Not for you, not for anyone.

Emmett: What kind of homosexual are you?
Brian: The kind that f**ks men.

Melanie: I used to hate it when Brian would say, "There are two kinds of straight people in this world - the ones who hate you to your face, and the ones who hate you behind your back," because I knew that wasn't true, there are plenty of straight people who don't hate us. But the ones who do no longer have to do it behind our backs, they can do it in the White House, in the churches, on television, in the streets! Is that the kinda place we wanna live? Is that the kinda place we wanna raise our kids?


Michael: It's an honor to stand here today, considering a few weeks ago the doctors weren't sure I was going to make it. But I was one of the lucky ones. I'm here. And as terrifying as it was, I'd be there again to defeat a bill that would deny rights to Americans just because they're gay. I have a loving partner, two wonderful kids, a home, a small business. The truth is, I'm just like you.

Actually, that's not the truth. Sure, in a lot of ways, I am just like you. I wanna be happy, I want some security, a little extra money in my pocket, but in many ways, my life is nothing like yours. Why should it be? Do we all have to have the same lives to have the same rights? I thought that diversity was what this country was all about. In the gay community, we have drag queens, leather daddies, trannies, and couples with children - every color of the rainbow. My mother's standing way in the back with some friends. My friends. She once told me that people are like snowflakes; every one special and unique... and in the morning you have to shovel 'em off the driveway. But being different is what makes us all the same. It's what makes us family.

Debbie: It's not about who you love, it's how you love. Genetalia is just God's way of accesorizing.

Others-

You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.
(Merle Miller, Writer)

I think gay people are like blondes: There’re fewer of them but they have more fun.
(Rita Mae Brown, Writer)

Homosexuality is God’s way of insuring that the truly gifted aren’t burdened with children.
(Sam Austin, Composer/Lyricist)

There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain’t got no choice. Try as I may, I just can’t walk in flats
(Harvey Fierstein, Filmmaker)

Honey, I’m more man than you’ll ever be and more woman than you’ll ever get.
(Antonio Fargas, in the film Carwash)

In college I experimented with heterosexuality. I slept with a straight guy. I was really drunk.
(Bob smith, comic)

[Chipper Chat]

1. Groucho Marx: from "You Bet Your Life" circa 1957

GROUCHO: "Are you happy with your husband?

WOMAN: "Groucho, have you ever been made loved to by a Frenchman?"

GROUCHO: "Not...not that I recall."

[canis_lupus]

2. Here are some of mine I collected over the years

Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job. For too long, our nation has tolerated the insidious form of discrimination against this group of Americans, who have worked as hard as any group, paid their taxes like everyone else, and yet have been denied equal protection under the law.
- Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr.

Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
- Dorothy Parker, author and humorist

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and three hundred sixty two admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
- Lynne Lavner, comedian

You know ... whenever some yahoo talks at me about how he hates the fact that Gays took a Perfectly Good Word and ruined it, I reply that what I hate is the way some people took a Perfectly Good Word like 'Family' and turned it into a code word for intolerance.
- Bruce Garrett, artist and software engineer

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
- Barry Goldwater, conservative Senator and one-time presidential candidate

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
- Ernest Gaines, African-American author

You could move.
- Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby," in response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers?
- Elayne Boosler, comedian

If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered.
- Robin Tyler, first openly gay comic in the U.S.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
- Harvey Fierstein, playwright and actor

I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.
- Margaret Mead, anthropologist

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than any other reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.
- Harvey Milk, slain San Francisco City Supervisor at a 1978 Gay Pride Rally

It is better to be hated for what one is than loved for what one is not.
- Andre Gide, French novelist

The only unnatural sex act is one which you cannot perform.
- Dr. Alfred Kinsey, pioneering sex researcher

Americans have a very low tolerance for differentness, whether it’s racial, ethnic or sexual. Despite our rhetoric about individualism, we are a desperately conforming people.
- Martin Duberman, gay historian

I wish that homosexuals were born with a little horn in the middle of their forehead so we couldn’t hide so easily. At least if you can’t hide, you have to stand up and fight.
- Harvey Fierstein, playwright and actor

Are homosexuals social outcasts? My God! Christopher Isherwood, Howard Brown, Merle Miller, Sidney Abbott, John Maynard Keynes. Are these people social outcasts? Some of the most moral men I know are homosexuals.
- Dr. Evelyn Hooker, psychologists and author of pioneering studies of homosexuality in the 1950s

The Air Force pinned a medal on me for killing a man and discharged me for making love to one.
- Former Air Force sergeant Leonard Matlovich

I have never come across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity.
- Oscar Wilde, British playwright

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde, British playwright

I’ve never outraged Nature. I’ve always listened to her advice and followed it wherever it went.
- Joe Orton, British playwright

[Rowdyboy]

3. "When I was in the militiary they gave me a medal for killing two men.....

and a discharge for loving one"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Matlovich

Sgt Leonard Matlovich(1943-1988) was a Vietnam War veteran, race relations instructor, and recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star.

Matlovich was perhaps the best-known gay man in America in the 1970s. His fight to stay in the United States Air Force after coming out of the closet became a cause célèbre around which the gay community rallied. His outspoken manner resulted in articles in The New York Times and a television movie on NBC. His photograph appeared on the cover of the September 8, 1975 issue of Time magazine, making him a symbol for thousands of gay and lesbian service members."

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4. "If God hated Queens so much...

why did he make so many?" author lost in time

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5. From the movie Victor/Victoria

Victoria: How long have you been a homosexual?
Toddy: How long have you been a soprano?
Victoria: Since I was 12.
Toddy: I was a late bloomer.

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6. here's a whole mess

People sometimes think I'm gay because I once played a gay in a movie. It's funny. Audiences don't think you're a murderer if you play a murderer, but they do think you're gay if you play a gay. ~Perry King

If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: "Hello. Can't work today, still queer." ~Robin Tyler

War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the Southern Baptist Convention is protesting? ~The Value of Families

Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich were shaking hands congratulating themselves on the introduction of an antigay bill in Congress. If it passes, they won't be able to shake hands, because it will then be illegal for a prick to touch an asshole. ~Judy Carter

Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?" ~John Stewart

The next time someone asks you, "Hey, howdja get to be a homosexual anyway?" tell them, "Homosexuals are chosen first on talent, then interview... then the swimsuit and evening gown competition pretty much gets rid of the rest of them." ~Karen Williams


If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. ~Robin Tyler


If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with "Let's Make a Deal." ~Fran Lebowitz

If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens. ~Bert R. Sugar

The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay. ~Troy Perry


- My mother made me a homosexual.
- If I gave her the wool, would she make me one too?
~Graffiti, London, 1978


I like my beers cold and my homosexuals flaming. ~Homer Simpson, from the television show The Simpsons

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7. From Queer Duck -- Oscar Wilde Cat to the gang at Queer Duck's house:

"Tell Mother? It would kill her!" Long pause . . . "I'll do it tonight."



From an unknown person: "Are you sure your parents don't know?"
Reply: "I'm sure of it."
Retort: "Haven't they ever seen you walk?"



Me: "Unnatural? Would that not by definition require the use of a tool or kindling fire?"


From "To Be or Not to Be":

Mel Brooks character: "What! No Jews, gays or gypsies in the theatre in Poland now? There goes show business!"

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8. From More Tales of the City

All of the following are from Michael Tolliver's coming out letter to his parents.

"I never needed saving except from the ignorant piety of people like Anita Bryant."

"No, Mama, I wasn't recruited. No seasoned homosexual served as my mentor. But you know what? I wish someone had. I wish someone older than me and wiser than the people in Orlando had taken me aside and said 'You're all right kid. You can grow up to be a doctor or a teacher like anyone else. You're not crazy , sick, or evil. You can succeed and be happy and find peace with friends - all kinds of friends - who don't give a damn who you go to bed with. Most of all you, though, you can love and be loved, without hating yourself for it.'"

"I know I can't tell you what it is to be gay but I can tell you what it is not.

It is not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family or decency or Christianity. It's not fearing your body, or the pleasures God made for it. It is not judging your neighbor, except when he is crass or unkind.

Being gay has taught be tolerance, compassion, and humility, It has shown me the limitless possibilities of living. It has given me people whose passion and kindness and sensitivity have provided a constant source of strength.

It has brought me into the family of man, Mama, and I like it here. I like it."