Desmond Tutu Quotes

I have no patience for homophobia.

Dear America, when you tell gay Americans that they can't serve their country openly or marry the person that they love, you're telling that to kids too. So don't be f**king shocked and wonder where all these bullies are coming from that are torturing young kids and driving them to kill themselves because they're different; they learned it from watching you.

Benedict XVI kept saying that homosexuals are deviant. They're not deviant. They're deviant only if you say that anyone who is different from me is abnormal.

I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.

Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.

There's nothing wrong with being gay, so to deny it is to make a judgment.

It's outrageous to me when I see people hate on someone because of their sexuality. I hate the intolerance. I hate the judgment. I hate it so much.

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.

With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.

I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.

There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

There are gays and lesbians in every country, so there should be no discrimination against them just because of their destiny.

I could never be homophobic in any kind of way, dude. I'm such a free bird.

No one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.

I have nothing against homosexuality. I just think that in this day and age most people are not ready to accept it.

I don't think that, if you do everything else in your life right and you happen to be gay, you're automatically going to hell.

I don't have any intention to be anti-gay or to persecute the gay community.

If you don't clap for Todrick Hall, guess what Mary, you're a homophobe.

Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.

In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic.

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.

I was raised with this idea that we're supposed to be tolerant of other people's opinions, but then what happens if other people's opinions are racist and hateful and wrong?