Tommy Dorfman Quotes

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

The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.

Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.

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.

If I've had roadblocks along the way for being gay, I'm not aware of them.

I'm a gay man, living an out life for a long time, and it's tiring and anger-making to hear people continue to spit out the same old dreary cliches about the fact that gay men are doing something unnatural, and there'll be a price to pay when the Rapture happens.

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who are seeking a way out of its clutches. It is embarrassing and unpleasant as a subject for discussion but because of its prevalence, the need to warn the uninitiated, and the desire to help those who may already be involved in it, it is discussed in this chapter.

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.

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't.

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.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

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

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.'

That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.

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

I have Jewish friends. I have Middle Eastern friends. I have Spanish and Italian and British and Scottish and German friends and Austrian friends, and guess what? They all deal with homophobia. It's an earthling epidemic; it's not isolated in the black community.

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.

It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.

I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

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

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.