Quote of the Week: José Ortega y Gasset, “Revolt of the Masses”
“If the European grows accustomed not to rule, a generation and a half will be sufficient to bring the old continent, and the whole world…
Quotes
Bonus Quote No.10 (Special March ’16 Mardi Gras Edition): Gary Dowsett, Gay Information Quarterly Journal (1982)
“And I also have a friend, a paedophile, who is working very hard on making sense out of his relations with boys. These relations consist…
Bonus Quote No.9 (Special March ’16 Mardi Gras Edition): Roz Ward, Introducing the Safe Schools Coalition
“Safe Schools Coalition is about supporting gender and sexual diversity. It’s not about celebrating diversity. It’s not about stopping bullying. It’s about gender and sexual…
Quote of the Week: T.S. Eliot, “Notes Towards the Definition of Culture”
“What we remark especially about the educational thought of the last few years, is the enthusiasm with which education has been taken up as an…
Quote of the Week: Gérard Zwang, “La Fonction Érotique”
“The human condition is lived only as a man or woman. From the moment of fertilization, the die is cast. Some people prate about the bisexualism of every human being. Such a…
Bonus Quote No.8 (Special March ’16 Mardi Gras Edition): Franklin Kameny and Richard Isay cited by Robert Reilly
“At a Human Rights Campaign dinner, which celebrated him as an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) civil right hero, the late Franklin Kameny said, ‘I have…
Bonus Quote No.7 (Special March ’16 Mardi Gras Edition): Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues, 1998
“Now people say that it was kind of rape. I was only thirteen and she was twenty-four. Well, I say, if it was a rape,…
Bonus Quote No.6 (Special March ’16 Mardi Gras Edition): Harry Hay, New York University, 1983
“Because if the parents and friends of gays are truly friends of gays, they would know from their gay kids that the relationship with an…
Bonus Quote No.5 (Special March ’16 Mardi Gras Edition): Tamara Metz, “Disestablish Marriage!” 2013
“As long as the government doles out marital status and uses it to distribute benefits and privileges, our commitment to freedom and equality demand that…
Bonus Quote No.4 (Special March ’16 Mardi Gras Edition): Masha Gessen, Sydney Writers’ Festival, 2012
“I also think equally that it’s a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist […] fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about…