#homosexuality

I thought of becoming an interior designer, but I decided to just reorient my furniture so people will think I’m gay. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#homosexuality #humor #design

At times he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world. ↗

— E.M. Foster

#maurice-novel #dreams

I take a nap after supper and dream of the U.S. Navy, a ship anchored near a war scene, at an island, but everything is drowsy as two sailors go up the trail with fishing poles and a dog between them to go make love quietly in the hills: the captain and everybody know they're queer and rather than being infuriated however they're all drowsily enchanted by such gentle love... (p. 119) ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#love #lovebia #u-s-navy #dreams

To some perhaps it may appear a little strained to place this last-mentioned form of attachment on a level of importance with the others, and such persons may be inclined to deny to the homogenic [...] or homosexual love that intense, that penetrating, and at times overmastering character which would entitle it to rank as a great human passion. But in truth this view, when entertained, arises from a want of acquaintance with the actual facts. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#homophobia #homosexuality #ignorance #love #passion

My morality and faith are choices. My sexual orientation however isn't. ↗

— Anthony Venn-Brown

#homosexuality #faith

[T]here is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices, and what anyone does with a willing partner is of no social or cosmic significance. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#home

For myself I couldn't care less, but I have a lover. Not a partner, Susannah, or a friend or a significant euphemism, but the love of my life. And he believes. And I've watched him tie himself in knots, as he struggles to find a place for himself in texts that were written thousands of years ago, with the deliberate aim of excluding him. ↗

— Michael Arditti

#homosexuality #religion #life

Men who refuse to use condoms do not deserve to be fucked by anyone but other men who refuse to use condoms. ↗

— Inga Muscio

#homosexuality #men #safe-sex #sex #men

In a sense,’ Foucault concluded with a flourish, ‘all the rest of my life I’ve been trying to do intellectual things that would attract beautiful boys. ↗

— James Miller

#homosexuality #beauty

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#americans #civil-rights #expression #gay-rights #homosexuality