Pat Buchanan Quotes

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) told an AP reporter that he doesn’t mind queers, but he does mind queers having sex (which is a cool distinction) – and then complained that he wasn’t being given the right to say what he wanted about what those cute nasty gay boys do.

I voted against her because she’s a damned lesbian.

My view is that homosexual acts -- not homosexuality, but homosexual acts -- are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law-based country, it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that. ... They don’t comport with natural law. I happen to think that it represents (to put it politely) behavior that is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate, is not healthy to society

In many cases, it's a choice. There are many, many human beings through history - millions and millions and millions - who have been both homosexual at times in their lives and then heterosexual, or vice-versa, or bisexual. How can it be a biological imperative if people can change?

When I was a teenager, the biggest heartthrob was Tab Hunter. He was in every movie out of Warner Bros. until he was exposed as gay, and his career faded. That was an object lesson. I knew I must protect my sexual orientation.

I feel like people are so eager and willing to accept the concept of females being bisexual and having it be a very natural thing, but as soon as a male proclaims himself as bisexual, we automatically dismiss it and say, 'No, he's just gay.'

Women who have been with man after man after man after man choose to become a lesbian later in life. Gay men, it doesn't work so much that way.

When I was young, people were so disgusted by me. Before I even knew that I was gay... everybody else had it figured out and, you know, they were letting you know.

I have a problem with homosexual acts.

Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men.

The thing I don't understand about homosexuals is, how do they decide which one is the one who's supposed to pretend they don't want it?

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it invented a pariah state, a leper colony for the incorrigible whose very existence, when tolerated openly, was admonition to all. We queers keep everyone straight as whores keep matrons virtuous.

You think homosexuality is disgusting? Then, it follows as the night the day, that you find sex disgusting, for there is nothing done between two men or two women that is, by any objective standard, different from that which is done between a man and a woman.

Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.

I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

This is the Homosexuality Is An Abomination Club, right?

Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobes.