“To experience love as claustrophobia. In such a twisted paradigm lies the sick legacy of a lifetime in the closet.”
― Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
― Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
“Organized religion is the school of hate, and never more exultant in its righteous indignation than when it talks about gay and lesbian. In America the unholy alliance between the know-nothing fundamentalists and the Catholic hierarchy keeps the faithful whipped up to a frenzy of witch-hunting and fag-bashing.”
― Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
― Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
“The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship keeps trying to catch up, proving that all the hatred of gay is just stupid translation, though the snake-oil preachers don't want to hear it.”
― Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
― Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
“I suppose we’d been waiting for each other all our lives.”
― Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
― Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
“In this Puritan sinkhole of a culture, we don't teach children the uses of pleasure, and so they decide we are fools and go their own way, blindly. If we learned to drive as badly as we learn to make love, the roads would be nothing but wrecks.”
― Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
― Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
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