My wife's the reason anything gets done, she nudges me towards promise by degrees. She is a perfect symphony of one our son is her most beautiful reprise. We chase the melodies that seem to find us un...
Privilege doesn't just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity.
At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything?
She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their enemy, and suddenly what she and Carol had together seemed no longer love or anything happy but a mons...
Gay people were seen as magical, too. I mean, like in many cultures, men were viewed as warriors and women were viewed as caregivers. But gay people, being both male and female, were seen as both warr...
She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?
Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?
Get your sticky fingers away from my cookies, Ben ordered, without turning his head, to see Jaxton trying to steal one from the cooking tray.You weren't saying that last night, Jaxton retaliated, comi...
Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
A defeat for humanity would be the failure to recognise the rights of two people who love each other.A defeat for humanity is that people accept such hatred and discrimination into their hearts.A defe...
Love is cursed by monogamy
A conversation in which the two parties have different beliefs should never begin with the intention of converting the other party to your own beliefs. Every worthwhile conversation's goal should be t...
He hesitates, then says, You don't think Otter... gets offended by what I say? He begins to speak faster. I mean, I don't care who Otter sleeps with. I don't care that he's a fa- gay. I don't care tha...
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
I don't know any homophobic people. That suggests fear.The people I know who hate gay folks are:illiterate, nescient, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unschooled, untaught, backward, benighted, pr...
It's important to remember that having a conversation about us (LGBT) without us will usually be a recycling or preconceived ideas and misconceptions. Can you imagine a group of male church leaders di...
Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming l...
Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.
Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted.