Justin Tranter Quotes

I got kicked out of Catholic school, by the way, because I was too feminine. I was too feminine and I had a crush on this boy named Anthony and the nuns were not having it.

Imagine living in a state where businesses can legally refuse to serve people based on their sexual orientation. Where parents can force their children to undergo conversion therapy to 'cure' them of their 'homosexual tendencies.'

As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.

I've never gone around bashing homosexuals, and I am not homophobic.

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

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.

Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.

The gay male is always going to be at the bottom.

Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.

Because homophobia is still largely driven by the church, it's legitimised. It's also tied to sexism, because those two are never far apart.

… communists and sex perverts

Students ask me why the same people oppose lesbians and birth control.

Democrats like [Congressman Jared] Polis want to bankrupt Christians who refuse to worship and endorse his sodomy. Next he’ll join ISIS in beheading Christians, but not just in Syria, right here in America.

Both casual, unthinking discrimination and deliberate, malicious homophobia erode self-confidence and undermine mental health. Both are far too common, not just in our schoolyards or online but in sporting clubs, in the outer and even in our national parliament.

High school is already an academic and social pressure cooker, and the forces that make it stressful are amplified for queer students.

I do think homophobia is rife, as it always has been.

Homophobia obviously still exists, but it is a lot more subtle, and it is a lot more in the background.

Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion.

The marginalization of African-Americans within their own community based on sexuality is a construct that is more complex than the idea that 'blacks just hate gays.'

Art is feminine... Look, if you're handsome and young and beautiful, well, people are always going to say that you're gay.