"In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years."

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Source : "Mario Cantone on His First San Francisco Stint" by Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2010.

Mario Cantone

#Religious Quotes #Gay Quotes #Years Quotes

“A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.”
“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
“She was gorgeous and fearless and I was in awe.”
“It's hard to dance if you just lost your wallet. Whoa Where's my wallet But, hey this song is funky...”
“I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know. I'm always writing little lines and saving them for later.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.”
“White people are so unappreciative, they don't even acknowledge and understand what it means to be white in Canada, and all the layers of privilege that come with that. So they're shocked when somebody says, 'What just happened is racist,' and they said, 'Oh no, couldn't possibly be.' They see racism as people with KKK gowns and pointy hoods with eyes cut out. And we had those too.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Patience is a virtue, and Americans have it in short supply,”

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