Rachel Maddow  - Quotes

 The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.  

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Jane Bled  - Quotes

 Humanity was a passing notion to him; something he liked to try on for size and model in the dressing room, but never actually felt compelled to buy.  

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Cristina Marrero  - Quotes

 For the first time in my life, I said the words,  

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Quentin Crisp  - Quotes

 Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. 

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Cristina Marrero  - Quotes

 Together, in that room, our childhood notions of love melted away. We discovered love was not a fairytale. Sometime there were no happy endings, and when there were, you needed to work like hell to keep the happiness alive 

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Harvey Milk  - Quotes

 The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right. Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us'es, the us'es will give up. And if you help elect to the central committee and other offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.



So if there is a message I have to give, it is that if I've found one overriding thing about my personal election, it's the fact that if a gay person can be elected, it's a green light. And you and you and you, you have to give people hope....
 

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Cristina Marrero  - Quotes

 You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time. 

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Cristina Marrero  - Quotes

 Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man. 

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Jeanette Winterson  - Quotes

 But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it. I have an idea that one day it might be possible, I thought once it had become possible, and that glimpse has set me wandering, trying to find the balance between earth and sky. If the servants hadn't rushed in and parted us, I might have been disappointed, might have snatched off the white samite to find a bowl of soup.



As it is, I can't settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know that love is as strong as death, and be on my side for ever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me. There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies. Somewhere it is still in the original, written on tablets of stone. I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never the destroyed.
 

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Harvey Milk  - Quotes

 If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door. 

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Rita Mae Brown  - Quotes

 The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. 

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Cristina Marrero  - Quotes

 Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men. 

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Cristina Marrero  - Quotes

 So, let me get this straight-- You want me to stop being a lesbian and being attracted to women because it is a 'sin'? Last time I checked, when you lie you are sinning. Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men. I could tell you a lie in order to placate you, but isn 

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David Sedaris  - Quotes

 It's astonishing the amount of time that certain straight people devote to gay sex - trying to determine what goes where and how often. They can't imagine any system outside their own, and seem obsessed with the idea of roles, both in bed and out of it. Who calls whom a bitch? Who cries harder when the cat dies? Which one spends the most time in the bathroom? I guess they think that it's that cut-and-dried, though of course it's not. Hugh might do the cooking, and actually wear an apron while he's at it, but he also chops the firewood, repairs the hot-water heater, and could tear off my arm with no more effort than it takes to uproot a dandelion. 

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Cristina Marrero  - Quotes

 See, the institutions and specialist, experts, you see. Yes, yes,

experts, indeed. See, they would have us believe that there is an order

to art. An explanation. Humans are odd creatures in that way. Always

searching for a formula. Yes, a formula to create an expected norm for

unexplainable greatness. A cook book you might say. Yes, a recipe

book for life, love, and art. However, my dear, let me tell you. Yes,

there is no such thing. Every individual is unique in their own design,

as intended by God himself. We classify, yes, always must we classify,

for if not, then we would be lost, yes lost now wouldn't we?

Classification, order, expectations, but alas, we forget. For what is art,

if not the out word expression of an artist. It is the soul of the artisan

and if his expectations are met, than who are we to judge whether his

work be art or not?
 

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Harvey Milk  - Quotes

 Let's make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living. To sit on the front steps--whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city--and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.



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And I hardly need to tell you that in the 19- or 24-inch view of the world, cleanliness has long since eclipsed godliness. Soon we'll all smell, look, and actually be laboratory clean, as sterile on the inside as on the out. The perfect consumer, surrounded by the latest appliances. The perfect audience, with a ringside seat to almost any event in the world, without smell, without taste, without feel--alone and unhappy in the vast wasteland of our living rooms. I think that what we actually need, of course, is a little more dirt on the seat of our pants as we sit on the front stoop and talk to our neighbors once again, enjoying the type of summer day where the smell of garlic travels slightly faster than the speed of sound.
 

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