Audre Lorde Quotes

I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.

As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.

Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.

It should never be a crime to be gay.

We have so much discrimination in this world - colour, race, creed, all of these things - and there is an issue here that the right of marriage in the civil law is not extended to same-sex couples.

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.

I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.

The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

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

Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of 'equality' the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment.

But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.

I'm not really sure what gay propaganda is.

The whole idea that someone should not be able to marry who they love based on their gender and their preference is ridiculous.

I don’t believe that opposite sex and same sex marriages are the same, but I do believe, with growing numbers of Americans, that the time for denigrating or stigmatizing same sex relationships are over.

One of my best friends since I was eleven years old is a gay man, and I knew his struggle. It was a tough life, you not accepting yourself.

Women are a minority the same way gay people are.

The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world... As a gay man I feel very strongly about those issues around the world - there've been huge changes and developments, but there are still places where things are scary.

Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.

I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.