“In most of the world, it’s still not cool to be gay. You can be murdered in these places. You can be thrown in jail. Being gay in San Francisco is fun. Being gay in Saudi Arabia—that's a whole other matter.”Tagged: gay rights, Homophobia, San Francisco, Saudi Arabia
“My parents and I didn’t speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.”Tagged: Homophobia, Coming out
“[Gay] people were psychopaths, criminals. I was afraid my family would lock me up and give me electroshock. I was a screaming queen.”Tagged: Psychopaths, Criminals, Electroshock Therapy, Homophobia
“We took the gay pride parade with 50,000 people to 500,000. Anita Bryant had the effect of galvanizing the whole gay movement. She was somebody whom everybody could hate. She was easy to hate.”Tagged: Anita Bryant, Gay Pride Parade, Homophobia, Hate
“Anita Bryant is an important figure in gay history because she enraged a generation of people who got active.”Tagged: Anita Bryant, Gay History, Homophobia
“They had a whole code of emblems that they used to oppress people, and we needed something to answer that.”Tagged: LGBT, Rainbow Flag, Homophobia