Gay Activism Quotes

“There’s something truly strange about living in a historical moment in which the conservative anxiety and despair about queers bringing down civilization and its institutions (marriage, most notably) is met by the anxiety and despair so many queers feel about the failure or incapacity of queerness to bring down civilization and its institutions.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“To devote yourself to someone else’s pussy can be a means of devoting yourself to your own.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“But really justice has no coordinates, no teleology.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“Even identical genital acts mean very different things to different people. This is a crucial point to remember, and also a difficult one. It reminds us that there is difference right where we may be looking for, and expecting, communion.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“We struggled to understand how a contract with the so-called secular state could mandate some kind of spiritual ritual.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“The time for blithely asserting that sleeping with whomever you want however you want is going to jam its machinery is long past.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“Sadly, in the volatile arena of the sexuality/Christianity debate, interaction is often reduced to name calling by angry gay activists and self-righteous Christian conservatives. Name calling never enhances conversation, rational discussion or creates a constructive dialogue. It only reinforces each other's perceptions/positions. It must be remembered however, that one of the reasons some LGBT people are quick to revert to name calling (bigot, homophobe, hater) is because they learnt about its impact early in life (faggot, queer, pervert).”
― Anthony Venn-Brown, A Life of Unlearning - a preacher's struggle with his homosexuality, church and faith