Rachel Kushner Quotes

We do not have any homosexuals in Iran.

Being gay in San Francisco is fun. Being gay in Saudi Arabia - that's a whole other matter.

Gay relationships have historically not been treated the same as straight relationships.

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments - including the one I ran as Governor of Mississippi - to deny the equal rights to an entire segment of our population that are afforded all of us under the Constitution.

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

Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.

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

Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) told an AP reporter that he doesn’t mind queers, but he does mind queers having sex (which is a cool distinction) – and then complained that he wasn’t being given the right to say what he wanted about what those cute nasty gay boys do.

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.

To me, it's mind-boggling to think that homosexuality was forbidden up until 1967.

It's not so easy to be gay or even a woman in some places in the world, and in many countries, it's illegal to be gay. You can be put to death. It's a global struggle. A human rights struggle on a global scale.

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of 'family values' makes 'family values' look more and more like common bigotry.

If two people of the same sex fall in love and want to marry, why would our government stand in their way?

Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.

When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.

In some of the states in the U.S., homosexuality remains a felony.

The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.

Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.

There are gays and lesbians in every country, so there should be no discrimination against them just because of their destiny.

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.