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Anna's voice wasn't a beautiful voice - rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it had more vibrancy to it than most Danish voices, which were often thin and white and too pretty to trigger a shiver. Anna's voice had the heat of the south; it warmed Einar, as if her throat were red with coals.

That's the problem with memories: you can visit them but you can't live with them.

When we are surrounded by such diversity - in nature, in culture, in human spirit - how can we stand not to acknowledge it?

Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your dearly beloved is a sin! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, women are inferior to men, and are meant only serve the men! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, a man can have multiple wives, and yet be deemed civilized! Here that somebody is a fundamentalist ape - a theoretical pest from the stone-age, that somehow managed to survive even amidst all the rise of reasoning and intellect.

Privilege doesn't just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity.

Homosexuality is immutable, irreversible and nonpathological.

Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race.

Being homosexual is no more abnormal than being lefthanded.

Homosexuals are not made, they are born.

Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both.

The heavy warlike losses of the AIDS years were relegated to queer studies classrooms, taught as gay history and not American history.

We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we don__ see it reflected in history textbooks and in recent memory then it cannot have existed for long.

Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men.

You look like a lesbian artist fairy.

So, let me get this straight-- You want me to stop being a lesbian and being attracted to women because it is a 'sin'? Last time I checked, when you lie you are sinning. Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men. I could tell you a lie in order to placate you, but isn__ the truth supposed to set me free? I choose truth over lies any day of the week.

Only by speaking out can we create lasting change. And that change begins with coming out.

Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.

I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it.