Non-Heteronormative Quotes

Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.

A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.

Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested."

I live in New York and I love hanging out in gay clubs, and a lot of my friends are gay. But, for better or for worse, I'm not gay.

My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay.

A homosexual is the only man who ever meets a man he would like to marry if he were a woman.

Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.

I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight.

One of the definitive works on gay life. Through this collective testimony we may come to understand what it is to be 'the other'; in short, the other part of ourselves.

I believe that the love of same-sex couples is every bit as valuable as that of opposite-sex couple.

When people have asked me in the past if I'm gay, I've said "I'm not gay, but I'm festive."

[John Boswell] introduction of the concept of "gay" (in the way he defines it) provides us both with a useful instrument of research and at the same time a better comprehension of how people actually conceive of themselves and their sexual behavior.

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.

I've always considered myself a little more fluid along the spectrum. So even being called bisexual... I remember, in my early twenties, I was like, 'But bisexual means I can only like girls and guys. What if I like something else?'

Famously, DC has been pretty great showing gay women, with characters like Batwoman, but has shown fewer prominent men on the sexuality spectrum outside of hetero. It's something we need to address. I also think it's lovely how the readers respond to this.

I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase.

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

As a person who doesn't identify as straight, any love song I write is contextualized by a queer identity.

Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew.

I'm not a lesbian and I'm not straight.

If only all straight weddings could be somehow gay-ified.

Homosexuality has been around since humanity began and different societies at different times have reacted in a different manner.