I came back last night having spent Saturday and yesterday on Fire Island. I don’t think I shall ever go again. It is lovely from the point of view of beach and sun and wearing no clothes, but the atmosphere is sick-sick-sick. Never in my life have I seen such concentrated abandoned homosexuality. It is […]
Homosexuality Quotes
The persecution of homosexuals fulfills the same function of “bad faith” as racial prejudice or discrimination. In both cases one’s shaky identity is guaranteed by the counterimage of the despised group. As Sarte has shown in his description of the anti-Semite, one legitimates oneself by hating the figure one has set up as the opposite […]
The… problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
If you don’t want people to know you’re a lesbian, why in the hell have an affair with me?
If I were asked to describe the difference between the sexes in the gay world, I would say that the men wanted to be amused; the girls sought vindication.
If Michelangelo had been a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.
The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won’t shut up.
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I’m giving them my share.
The Sin of Sodom, you mean? If you knew boys as I do, you would not suggest anything so grotesque. If Oscar Wilde had pleaded insanity, he would have walked out of court a free man.
What I got arrested for in San Francisco I’m not gonna repeat the word because I want to finish the gig here tonight, but, um, they said it was vernacular for a favorite homosexual practice, a ten-letter word. It’s really chic, that’s two four-letter words and a preposition. I can’t, uh, I wish I could […]
