“ AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until… Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Trite though it (used to) sound, real sexuality is about our struggles to connect with one another, to erect bridges across the chasms that separate selves. Sexuality is, finally, about imagination. T… David Foster Wallace
“ Of course, it’s now obvious why he was so angry that day. People don’t move into hospice to live but to die. And that half an egg sandwich I ended up making him–that sandwich was the last meal he ate… Alysia Abbott
“ Kind of gay? I wanted to say. Do you have any notion how many homosexuals sweated their ass off on the dance floor to make this soaring bit of derivative trash possible? How many died of AIDS, OD'd, o… Adam Haslett
“ The heavy warlike losses of the AIDS years were relegated to queer studies classrooms, taught as gay history and not American history. Alysia Abbott
“ Coco Chanel is said to have said that a girl should be two things: who and what she is. I say a girl should do two things: what and who she wants. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Some people are so sexually unattractive that the thought of masturbating turns them off. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ The primary goal of a righteous parent who has a daughter is to minimize the number of boys and men for whom their daughter will have willingly opened her legs come her wedding day; the closer to zero… Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ A man cannot really be called (sexually) confident if he has never bought his woman a vibrator. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ To engage in activism that envisions alternatives ways of organizing society and alternative ways of being is to risk membership in society, a sense of belonging, however partial it may be. Activism c… Deborah B. Gould
“ Everything changed after AIDS,” Dr. Molnár had just explained to him. “From then on, blood was more dangerous than shit. David Cronenberg
“ The age-old, seemingly inexorable process whereby diseases acquire meanings (by coming to stand for the deepest fears) and inflict stigma is always worth challenging, and it does seem to have more lim… Susan Sontag
“ (Note: I realize this is horrifying. Just keep reading.) "Turn to Leviticus 20:13, because I actually discovered the cure for AIDS. If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of th… Anomymous pastor and myself
“ Stupid arbitrary shit means it will take a movie star to die and a hemophiliac teenager to die before ordinary people start to mobilize, start to feel that the disease needs to be stopped. Tens of tho… David Levithan
“ Are you afraid of dying?" "I was at first, maybe I still am a little bit. But it's not death that scares me so much as not being alive anymore. It's missing all the things that I would have seen if I… Deanna Lynn Sletten
“ For the next two weeks, the world and all other issues would be omitted. We were two people alone in a hospital room. We allowed no visitors. We had two weeks of near-silence with each other and my in… Harold Brodkey
