Al Yankovic Quotes

As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

It's not like I hate gay people.

In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic.

This is the Homosexuality Is An Abomination Club, right?

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.'

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

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

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.

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.

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

I'm going to block this nomination because she's a damn lesbian and I'm not going to have a lesbian in a position like that.

I voted against her because she’s a damned lesbian.

The hostility of society toward homosexuality is only a special case of its general hostility toward the adolescent spirit. In order to undermine the creative efforts of individuals to shape their lives by their own standards of human understanding and morality, society identifies their deviancy in terms of its inadequacies and failures, thereby undermining their access to basic social acceptance in adaptive areas.

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

I think that when you're queer, you grow up with these kinds of men who might have made you feel small because of who you are. They could be part of your family, or somebody on the street, or a teacher.

You're not homophobic for thinking that something gay is bad. All gay movies are bad.

I'd rather my son died in an accident than showed up with some bloke with a moustache.

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

I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things.

Anyone who feels that homosexuality is not only a sin but also a disease or a mental issue should take a look in the mirror and realize who the real crazy person is.

Also, I learned whether you are gay, bisexual, it doesn't matter, you know... because, at the end of the day, they're both gross. But mostly, I learned that elderly black women are wise beyond their years... but younger black women are prostitutes.

The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifying of all human notions, love. That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the world's full octave. Love as Agape, Eros and Philos; love as infatuation, obsession and lust; love as torture, euphoria, ecstasy and oblivion (this is beginning to read like a Calvin Klein perfume catalogue); love as need, passion and desire.