"Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each other. In the wake of AIDS, gay people felt like they had to organize, become much more active and visible. AIDS fostered a gay rights movement that made gay people more powerful and more vulnerable at the same time."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Dale Peck

#Powerful Quotes #Gay Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Coyotes hunt in packs, and so do assholes.”
“Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.”

Source : John Cowper Powys (1938). “Enjoyment of Literature”, New York, Simon
“I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.”
“Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doesn't give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately. Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.”
“I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.”
“A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men”, p.72, Hachette UK
“Together, we can put the brakes on breast cancer...”

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