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Homosexuality Quotes & Sayings. Related Quotes Prejudice Commitment Ceremony Love Human Rights When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. ~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988 (Thanks, Marlene) If gay and lesbian people are given civil rights, then everyone will want them! ~Author unknown, as seen on a button at evolvefish.com The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight. Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children. Who would give a law to lovers? You could move. War. Gay Quotes. Gay History and Literature: Essays by Rictor Norton. Degrees of freedom: the legacy of Alan Turing. Alan Turing A storm makes a great background to a ghost story.

I fell asleep last night listening to one, while outside the incorporeal banshee wailed, and battered itself (fruitlessly) against the bedroom window and (with greater effect) the garden fence. Driving to Barnet Tube station early this morning, we had (figuratively) to pick our way up the Meadway. The storm had raised up wheelie bins, and scattered them, turning a suburban road into an obstacle course. Ghosts, their effect on the living, and the act of tidying up. I wrote about Turing and the case for/against his pardon almost exactly a year ago: […] whether he killed himself by eating a cyanide-laced apple, or whether some more prosaic malfunction of chemical equipment in his house led to his death, is almost irrelevant.

More on Alan Turing • Pardoning Turing does nothing but make Cameron feel good• Behind every great man and woman is an unsung hero• We seek to pardon ourselves – not Alan Turing More by Graeme Archer. Www.qrd.org/qrd/misc/text/queers.read.this. 1 QUEERS READ THIS A leaflet distributed at pride march in NY Published anonymously by Queers June, 1990 How can I tell you. How can I convince you, brother, sister that your life is in danger: That everyday you wake up alive, relatively happy, and a functioning human being, you are committing a rebellious act. You as an alive and functioning queer are a revolutionary. There is nothing on this planet that validates, protects or encourages your existence. It is a miracle you are standing here reading these words. Gay Quotes.