Great gay/lesbian quotes
some of these are really great...thought you may enjoy...
> When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing
> two men and a discharge for loving one.
> ~From the tombstone of a gay Vietnam
> veteran.~
>
> My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those
> women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my
> share.
> ~Rita Mae Brown~
>
> 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 ******"
> ~John Stewart~
>
> The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military
> is that the next time the government mandates a draft we can
> all declare homosexuality instead of running off to Canada.
> ~Lorne Bloch~
>
> Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture
> or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should
> not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons.
> ~Letter to the editor: The Advocate~
>
>
> You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just
> have to be able to shoot straight.
> ~Barry Goldwater~
>
> Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men
> holding guns than holding hands?
> ~Ernest Gaines~
>
> The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
> ~Rita Mae Brown~
>
> '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
>
> War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the
> Southern Baptist Convention is protesting?
> ~The Value of Families~
>
> If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come
> from?
> ~Author Unknown~
>
> What is straight? A line can be straight,or a street,but the human
> heart,
> oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
> ~Tennessee Williams~,A Streetcar Named Desire,
> 1947
>
> There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex.
> People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.
> ~Elton John~
>
> I'd rather be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to
> tell your mother.
> ~Charles Pierce~, 1980
>
> If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to
> prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters.
> ~Anita Bryant~
>
> The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming
> on
> the AIDS quilt.
> ~Dennis Miller~
>
> 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
> *****
> to touch an asshole.
> ~Judy Carter~
>
> My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it
> were
> broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprised horror.
> ~W. Somerset Maugham~
>
> Drag is when a man wears everything a lesbian won't.
> ~Author Unknown~
>
> I am reminded of a colleague *****iterated "all my homosexual patients
> are quite sick" - to which I finally replied "so are all my heterosexual
> patients."
> ~Ernest van den Haag~ psychotherapist
>
>
> For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that
> what
> I really wanted was to be a lesbian.
> ~Mabel Maney~
>
>
> If male homosexuals are called "gay", then female homosexuals should be
> called "ecstatic".
> ~Shelley Roberts~
>
> My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she
> thought I was a latent homosexual.There was nothing latent about it.
> ~Amanda Bearse~
>
> Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full
> of
> one.
> ~Kate Clinton~
>
> One should never deplore homosexuality more than left-handedness.
> ~Towards a Quaker view of Sex~ 1964
>
> No matter how far in or out of the closet you are, you still have a next
> step.
> ~Author Unknown~
>
> People who can'think of anything else but whether the person you love is
> indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but
> that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.
> ~Robert Towne~
>
> It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality.
> Its like disapproving of rain.
> ~Francis Maude~
>
> The closet is an awful place to die.
> ~Author Unknown
>
> To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual
> is one of the most chilling experiences- and unique to the United
> States.
> You don't hear two Italians sittihng around complimenting each other
> because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is
> hysterical about his manhood.
> ~Gore Vidal~