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"Straight Americans need ... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand--to begin with--how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul." - Gay writer Bruce Bawer in the April 28 Advocate |
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"We have always been the cultural parents of an ungrateful heterosexual society. We give them the clothes they wear, the homes they live in, the music they listen to and the movies and plays they go to. And [it] comes right back in our face. We have the most ungrateful children." - Playwright/actor Harvey Fierstein to Denver's Out Front, March 25 |
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"I and members of my family have been with you on many special days in the life of this country. I particularly recall another July 1st in Canada's Centennial Year, here on Parliament Hill. I said then, and I repeat it today, that 'Canada is a country that has been blessed beyond most countries in the world.' It is a country worth working for." - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II |
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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." - Voltaire |
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare." - Blair Houghton |
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"Man oh man, I saw Starship Troopers on Saturday night with some friends and I can safely say it's one of the DUMBEST films I've ever seen. The best part was when this character in the movie found a corpse with a hole in its head and said, 'My God! The bug sucked his brains out!' and my friend said, 'And then they let him write the movie!'" - Alton |
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"While the presence of two individuals in a toilet stall may be somewhat unusual, it is certainly not unlawful." - Michigan Court of Appeals |
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"Is your faith in the family of such fragility that you think people are going to learn that Herb and I live together, that Dean and [U.S. Rep.] Gerry [Studds] live together, and they are going to leave their wives? I have said this before: There was a commercial before about V-8 juice, and there would be this cartoon character, and he would drink an apple juice, and he would drink a tomato juice, and he would drink a carrot juice, and someone would give him a V-8, and he would say, 'I could have had a V-8.' What are we gay men, the V-8 of American society? Are you so frightened that people will see two men living together in a loving relationship, or two women living together in a loving relationship, and that will undermine the family? You are the ones who undermine the family when you trivialize it like this. ... [H]ow does the fact that Herb and I share a residence in the District of Columbia, and care for each other, and love each other, and wish to spend our time together, how does that undermine your family? What is it about our life that is going to tear asunder these family ties? ... We are not talking about a threat to the family -- we are talking about people who cannot abide, apparently, people differing with them." - U.S. Rep Barney Frank, D-Mass., on the floor of the House of representatives before the vote that overturned the District of Columbia's domestic-partner registration law |
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