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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school. (Dan Savage)
But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it. View quote
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Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs. View quote
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Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up. View quote
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To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay. View quote
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The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. View quote
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I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type. View quote
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In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable. View quote
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Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love. View quote
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I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them. View quote
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It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it. (Dan Savage)
I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything. View quote
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You know, my problem is I can't say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things. View quote
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Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay. View quote
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We don't say to women, "what do you mean you had a three way with two girls and a guy and you ate her pussy a little bit. You must be a lesbian." But we say to guys, "you mean you [touched a dick]. You must be a fag."... Straight male sexuality is all about this paranoia about am I feminine or am I gay. So the man who allows himself to do something perceived as womanly or faggoty is not a man anymore. View quote
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Saying someone-like our president-elect-couldn't possibly be into piss because that particular kink doesn't square with a known character trait and/or aspect of his public persona is like saying a hard-driving male CEO would never pay a dominatrix to tie him up, humiliate him, and shove two dozen needles through the head of his cock because he's such a powerful guy. Or saying a feminist would never wanna have her ass slapped or her hair pulled by a male sex partner. Or saying an out-and-proud gay man would never wanna be called a faggot by the dude fucking his ass. While most powerful CEOs aren't BDSM subs and most feminists aren't into having their asses slapped and their hair pulled and most out-and-proud gay men aren't into being called faggots when they're bottoming, [...] enough of all three are for each to be a cliché. View quote
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There is a strain of the left that is really invested in show trials and purity testing and virtue signaling... And would rather lose surrounded by perfect allies than win with an army that includes imperfect allies. View quote
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