Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand ...that if we decide to have sex, whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensiv...e. It's like an ideal of racial purity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An orgasm joins you to the past. Its timelessness becomes the brotherhood; the brethren are lovers; they extend the "family." I sh...are that sexuality. It was then, is now and will be in the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to u...se and where we use them.... For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The modern queer was invented by Tennessee Williams. Brando in blue jeans, sneakers, white T-shirt and leather jacket. When you sa...w that, you knew they were available.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered c...ity queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the re...ceiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it. It was possible to live through the decade preoccupied by the mortgage and the pence you saved on your income tax. It was also possible for those of us who saw what was happening to turn our eyes in a different direction; but what, in another decade, had been a trip to the clap clinic was now a trip to the mortuary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be ta...ken away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approac...h of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »