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George OrwellDown and Out in Paris and London

The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been p...

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When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one e...

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Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

It takes no compromise to give people their rights...it takes no money to respect the individual. It...

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

It's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that t...

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All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is w...

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Harvey MilkThe Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And y...

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Harvey MilkThe Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words

There's something very... I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed ...

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I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

Turing presented his new offering in the form of a thought experiment, based on a popular Victorian ...

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When I first met Cara, she was twelve and angry at the world. Her parents had split up, her brother ...

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In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere ...

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I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.

I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't

Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really...

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I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

The city was new again, and newly dangerous, and I would walk the streets quickly, eyes averted from...

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Michael ChabonThe Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a f...

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There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there'...

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Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner ...

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NOW, touching this business of old Jeeves – my man, you know – how do we stand? Lots of people think...

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I felt most awfully braced. I felt as if the clouds had rolled away and all was as it used to be. I ...

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Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rig...

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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

Wilem: 'What is the word for that here? A man who is intimate with both women and men?''Lucky?' Denn...

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I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have ...

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A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with anot...

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The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you wh...

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

Gay people were seen as magical, too. I mean, like in many cultures, men were viewed as warriors and...

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What's more, the kaleidoscopic blend of gender-variant and gender-typical traits that characterizes ...

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When these flies were put together in all-male groups they formed long, moving chains resembling con...

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This was a respect in which he paid due homage to the wise old spirit of the late Emiel Kroger, that...

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Tennessee WilliamsAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

Lots of teenage girls have taken comfort under the wings of half-closeted gay boys.

Because, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, I was embraced by the gays. They loved me and praised me....

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Tina FeyBossypants

One family, two impressively gay brothers.

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Tina FeyBossypants

It is a testament to my parents that they never reacted negatively to the four-year-long pride parad...

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But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters ...

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Veronica RothFour: A Divergent Story Collection

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

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Veronica RothFour: A Divergent Story Collection

Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start....

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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill...

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You want to go out to dinner sometime?Sorry, no. I'm married, not hungry, infected with seven unknow...

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Sodomy is as old as the human species.

Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the America...

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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms.

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). That mean...

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What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of sub...

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The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become fr...

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I was still sitting there, too unsure of myself to say anything, when Nicolas kissed me.'Let's go to...

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I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.

The things you were talking about. The lights and the flowers. Do they expect those things to make t...

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To those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual,or transgender-let me say- you are not alone. You're struggl...

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It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn...

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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage...

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No matter that information abounds that lets the public know that gay males come from two-parent hom...

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We're all gonna be gay if we get health care!

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake--you know, to...

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Bill MaherNew Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer

I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft no...

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Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay h...

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Clary- "How to Come Out to Your Parents," she read out loud. "LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not...

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We're not dating," Alec said again."Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, ...

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You're not gay, are you?"Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better.

Iz," Alec said tiredly. "It's not like it's one big bad thing. It's a lot of little invisible things...

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Guys don't let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay that came out wrong.

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Cassandra ClareCity of Heavenly Fire

Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay.""I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spi...

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Isabelle snorted. 'All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon.''You noticed' ...

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Isabelle snorted. "All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you , Simon.""You noticed....

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scrub oak trees. Kieran was leaning against him, pinning him to the tree, and they were kissing. Cri...

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Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everyone else.

But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I fou...

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Does he know about me? George wonders; do any of them? Oh yes, probably. It wouldn't interest them. ...

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Why do I prefer boys? Because of their shape and their voices and their smell and the way they move....

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Christopher IsherwoodChristopher and His Kind

His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.

The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm...

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Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by ma...

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The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman...

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My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate,...

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The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbia...

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If he’s not gay and he hung out with you the whole time, he wanted to be. It’s boyfriend or want to ...

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Daniel HandlerWhy We Broke Up

Any government I lead will continue with the equality of gay and lesbian people.

Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that exp...

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If some people are “outed,” are other people “inned”? Can we say that someone has been “besided” or ...

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David SedarisMe Talk Pretty One Day

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understan...

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-while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips and the wrong desires in his...

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... And now we shan't be parted no more, and that's finished.

... and someone he scarcely knew moved towards him and knelt beside him and whispered, 'Sir, was you...

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... I since cricket match do long to talk with one of my arms around you, then place both arms round...

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Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.

Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay...

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In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that ju...

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If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution f...

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I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.

The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. Sta...

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