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"Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with m16s going 'who'd you call a faggot?'" - John Stewart, on The Daily Show

"Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood." - Elizabeth Taylor

"The Air Force pinned a medal on me for killing a man and discharged me for making love to one." - Leonard Matlovich, dicharded air force seargent

"Jesus preached and talked against a whole gamut of sins. He never mentioned homosexuality at all." - former president Jimmy Carter

"In college, I experimented with heterosexuality. I slept with a straight guy. I was really drunk." - Bob Smith, comedian

"I swear, I saw this terrifying man, wearing a dog collar, a harness, and jackboots, snarling at me. And I looked closer, and it's my upholsterer." - Sterling, in Jeffrey

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

"Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist.... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid." - Bette Davis, about her gay male fans

"Sex is like a bridge; if you doin't have a good partner, you better have a good hand." - Charles Pierce, female impersonator

"It seems to me that the real clue to your sex-orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him." - Christopher Isherwood

"I'm forty, I'm single, and I work in musical theatre - you do the math." - Nathan Lane, actor

"This is a society that does tragic things, obscene things; yet it is only the physcial relations between human beings - the sexual relations - that we seem to term obscene." - Malcolm Boyd, gay civil rights activist and Episcopal priest

"If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would be pretty much left with Let's Make a Deal."

"It is time for all Americans to recognize that the issues that face gays and lesbians in this contry are not narrow, special interests, they are matters of basic human and civil rights." - former U.S. vice president Al Gore

"When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation...something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment." - Aristophanes, from Plato's Symposium

"Your silence will not protect you." - Audre Lorde, poet

"When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." - Oscar Wilde

"He looked me right in the face and said, 'You f---ing bulldyke!' And I thought to myself, 'Oooh, what a smart man! Why, I'll bet he took one look at me and knew I was white, too!" - Lea Delaria, comedian

"I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty." - Jean Cocteau, surrealist artist and writer