“How many more gay people does God have to create before we ask ourselves if he wants them around?”

- Minnesota Representative Steve Simon

“They make it seem like a social issue...

“They make it seem like a social issue, like you see someone stand up on a talk show and say ‘How am I supposed to explain to my child that two men are getting married?’ Eh, I don’t know, it’s your shitty kid, you fucking tell him, why is that anyone else’s problem? Two men are in love but they can’t get married because you don’t want to talk to your ugly child for five fucking minutes?”

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Louis CK (via weshouldwritepornography)

This is from Louis’ stand-up special Shameless, I think. The transcribed quotation doesn’t do him justice; this guy is so funny.

“The average life span of a...

“The average life span of a transgendered person is twenty-three years. The statistic is shocking, until it begins to make sense. Gender non-conformists face routine exclusion and violence. Transgendered people are disproportionately poor, homeless, and incarcerated. Many of the systems and facilities intended to help low-income people are sex-segregated and thereby alienate those who don’t comply with state-imposed categories. A trans woman may not be able to secure a bed in a homeless shelter, for example. Spade writes that just as the feminist movement tended to “focus on gender-universalized white women’s experience as ‘women’s experience,’” the lesbian- and gay-rights movement has focused primarily on a white, middle-class politic, centered on marriage and mainstream social mores.”

Dean Spade is the first openly trans law professor. Meaghan Winter interviews him for Granta.

“Homosexuality is illegal...

“Homosexuality is illegal in eighty countries and punishable by death in five. Four hundred years after Shakespeare penned Romeo and Juliet, the real tragedy is that human beings are still not free to love each other as they choose.”

- Reclaiming the F Word, Catherine Redfern and Kristin Aune

““Society’s attitude plays...

“Society’s attitude plays a pivotal role in discouraging people from considering adoption. The idea that gay parents are second best must be challenged. To suggest that a same sex couple is not as able to raise a child as a heterosexual couple is at once absurd and unsubstantiated. To continue to discourage potential adopters simply because of their sexual orientation is severely diminishing the chances of securing loving, stable homes for the children who are waiting. This debate needs to be urgently raised and myths surrounding how sexuality, race, marital status and gender can affect your parenting dispelled.”

Anne Marie Carrie [Barnados Executive Chirf]

George Takei

FSM Preach group

i applaud you! my uni had a group of hate spewers, but back then in the day i was not yet touched by the noodly appendage and thus did not posses the courage to challenge the confused and misguided souls!

FSM FTW!!!

Liberty

“I value political liberty and political rights (freedom of thought, speech, conscience, and the press, the right to vote, civil equality) more highly than economic liberty and economic rights (property rights, freedom of enterprise, freedom from want, economic equality). I’m in favor of progressive taxation and generous public provision of education, pensions, and health care. I think people should have enough to eat and a roof over their heads, even if they haven’t done much to deserve it. I reject the idea that the market is the singular bedrock of society while everything else is a parasitical growth. I want government to do something about environmental degradation and gross social and economic inequality. I’m a secularist and a supporter of equal rights for women and gays. And when it comes to wanting World Peace, I’m practically a Miss America contestant. So I’m a liberal.”

- Hendrik Hertzberg

Why Homosexuality Should Be Banned