"Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence."

-- Larry Kramer

#Pride Quotes #Gay Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“When the sun comes up, I have morals again.”
“I don't believe in outing people. It's up to the individual, but there's nothing wrong putting the pressure on.”
“I don't really plan on working a 9-to-5 job. I want to own my own business.”
“When God plays guitar he uses Jeff Beck's hands.”
“But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.”

Source : Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”
“Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.”

Source : Sara Ahmed (2013). “The Cultural Politics of Emotion”, p.189, Routledge
“In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today art has to look again at these unchanging qualities, because society is no longer unchanging. It is up to art today to show us what has become of these unchanging qualities in a world which is moving and changing.”
“SNL is a home. You've got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it's a great time.”

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