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C: Denyen informed me that next week is our "Pride Week."

I was reading the other day, when I found a lot of these quotes. I was really, very deeply touched, and felt the strong need to make some art from it.

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"Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. " - Woody Allen


"Straight Americans need... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul." -Bruce Bawer, The Advocate, 28 April 1998

"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision." ~Lynn Lavner


"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" ~Ernest Gaines

"If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: "Hello. Can't work today, still queer." ~Robin Tyler

"War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the Southern Baptist Convention is protesting?" ~The Value of Families

"I'd rather be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother." ~Charles Pierce, 1980

"That word "lesbian" sounds like a disease. And straight men know because they're sure that they're the cure." ~Denise McCanles

"Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery." -Hart Crane

"Trust a nitwit society like this one to think that there are only two categories - fag and straight. " - Gore Vidal

"The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt." ~Dennis Miller

"Pronouns make it hard to keep our sexual orientation a secret when our co-workers ask us about our weekend. "I had a great time with... them." Great! Now they don't think you're queer - just a big slut! " -Judy Carter

"The next time someone asks you, "Hey, howdja get to be a homosexual anyway?" tell them, "Homosexuals are chosen first on talent, then interview... then the swimsuit and evening gown competition pretty much gets rid of the rest of them." -Karen Williams

"About a year ago I was a guest on a network news show in New York. They were showing film clips from a gay pride parade down Fifth Avenue, but they only decided to show the part with men in dresses and heels. I had seen the parade, and there were men in business suits as well. After showing the film, the newsperson made some comments, and I found the comments extremely offensive. "This is what's wrong with the media," I said. "You show a fringe position. You show one point of view. You're closing the minds of the people by not showing them what the reality is." I got up and walked out, and I've never been asked back again. " -Kathleen Nolan

"The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill.... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick." ~Ronald Gold

"Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here. " ~Melissa Etheridge, "Silent Legacy," Yes I Am, 1993

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." ~Harvey Fierstein

"The geography of my heart has hills of desire and valleys and meadows of love - for both men and women - a single day's trek passes through it all." ~Agavé Powers

"There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved." ~Boy George

"Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers?" ~Elayne Boosler

"Bisexuality is a blessing and a curse, but viewing it as a schizophrenia will make you insane.... I am not a whole person with split desires: I am a whole person with desire. As everyone is, regardless." ~Agavé Powers

"I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant. " ~Paul Newman

"The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft we can all declare homosexuality instead of running off to Canada." ~Lorne Bloch

"Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons." ~Letter to the editor, The Advocate