Bill Condon Quotes
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
This statement gave the audience quite a laugh. There has been a small percentage of homosexuals in every society known to man—especially the ones who condemn it the most. In order for those opposing societies and cultures to speak about homosexuality, write about it and pass laws against it, there must have of course been some homosexuality. In the case of Iran and its Persian tradition and the Arab tradition there has been historically not only open homosexuality in different periods as in Ancient Greece, but it is documented by some of the great Persian and Arab literature. See {624479}.
At the time Kinsey wrote this, it was a very new idea. Subsequently, science has shown that Kinsey had it essentially right and maleness and femaleness are in different degrees in different people. This has shifted the political and moral argument from homosexuality and the characteristics of people to behavior,
At the time, this view was held by many, but few would express the ideas in public or publish material about homosexuality that was not negative and pejorative.
William Condon is an American director and screenwriter. Condon is known for writing and/or directing numerous successful and acclaimed films including Gods and Monsters, Chicago, Kinsey, Dreamgirls, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. He has received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay; Gods and Monsters and Chicago, winning for the former.