#homosexual

[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain? ↗

— Frank Harris

#homosexuality #punishment #sins #temptation #men

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#boy #consider #disease #does #everybody

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems. ↗

— Dario Argento

#films #homosexual #i #interested #lives

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

— Lea DeLaria

#believe #bunny #easter #homosexuality #like

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people. ↗

— Howard Dean

#gay #god #had #homosexuality #people

I play a scientist in a futuristic world in which 99% of the men have been wiped out. As a result, the women are nearly all homosexuals and the children are cloned. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#children #cloned #futuristic #homosexuals #i

But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#begins #believe #homosexual #i

States vote to take away my marriage rights, and even though I don't want to get married, it tends to hurt my feelings. I guess what bugs me is that it was put to a vote in the first place. If you don't want to marry a homosexual, then don't. But what gives you the right to weigh in on your neighbor's options? It's like voting whether or not redheads should be allowed to celebrate Christmas. ↗

— David Sedaris

#gay-lesbian #homosexual #humor #marriage

We also wish warmly to affirm those sisters and brothers, already in membership with orthodox churches, who - while experiencing same-sex desires and feelings - nevertheless battle with the rest of us, in repentance and faith, for a lifestyle that affirms marriage [between a man and woman] and celibacy as the two given norms for sexual expression. There is room for every kind of background and past sinful experience among members of Christ's flock as we learn the way of repentance and renewed lives, for "such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God" (1 Corinthians 6:11). This is true inclusivity. ↗

— Richard Bewes

#homosexuality #sex #experience

Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#love #mystery #profundity #sexuality #stigmas