My father asked if I am gay.
I asked Does it matter?
He said No not really.
I said Yes.
He said Get out of my life.
I guess it mattered.

My boss asked if I am gay.
I asked Does it matter?
He said No not really.
I told him Yes.
He said You're fired, faggot.
I guess it mattered.

My friend asked I am gay.
I said Does it matter?
He said Not really.
I told him Yes.
He said don't call me your friend.
I guess it mattered.

My lover asked Do you love me?
I asked Does it matter?
He said Yes.
I told him I love you.
He said Let me hold you in my arms.
For the first time in my life something matters.

My God asked me Do you love yourself?
I said Does it matter?
He said Yes.
I said How can I love myself? I am Gay.
He said That is the way I made you.
Nothing again will ever matter.

"We don't really understand what it's like to be French. How can we. We don't understand what it's like to be black. Straight people don't understand what it's like to be queer. Don't try to be something which you are not."
--K.D. Lang--

Being queer is like being on a lifetime assignment as a secret agent in some foreign country."
--Koretta Koertge--

"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals, and three hundred and sixty two admonishments to heterosexuals. This doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision."
--Lynne Lavner--

"If one person is discriminated against, we are all diminished..."

"One is not born a woman, one becomes one."
--Simone de Beauvoir--

"If God is going to send me to hell for loving who I choose to love,
then at least I'm going to go to hell happy!
--Laura Turner--

"Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons."
--Aristotle--

"We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around."
--Geraldine Ferraro--

"I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there."
--Maureen Reagan--

"No man is above the law, and no man is below it."
--Theodore Roosevelt--

"I can't help looking gay. I put on a dress and people say, 'Who's the dyke in the dress?'"
--Karen Ripley--

"For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun.
Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian."
--Mabel Maney--

"If male homosexuals are called 'gay,' then female homosexuals should be called 'ecstatic.'"
--Roberts' Rules of Lesbian Living by Shelly Roberts--

"Pronouns make it hard to keep our sexual orientation a secret when our co-workers ask us about our weekend. 'I had a great time with ....THEM.'
Great! Now they don't think you're queer ~ just a big slut!"
--Judy Carter--

"Men often say, 'Women! Who could ever understand them?' Don't ask a lesbian for the answer.
All you'll get is a sympathetic nod."
--Joanne Brigden--

"My mom blames California for me being a lesbian.
'Everything was fine until you moved out there.' 'That's right, Mom, we have mandatory lesbianism in West Hollywood.
The Gay Patrol busted me.
I was given seven business days to add a significant amount of flannel to my wardrobe."
--Coley Sohn--

"If homosexuality is a disease, lets all call in queer to work.
'Hello. Can't work today, still queer'."
--Robin Tyler--

"Introductions are tricky in a lesbian relationship.
It's a word game.
To my friends she's my lover, to strangers and family members in denial she's my roommate,
to Jehovah's Witnesses at the door she's my lesbian sex slave,
and to my mother she's Jewish and that's all that matters."
--Denise McCanles--

"A woman goes to the gynecologist, and upon examination, the doctor says,
'Why, it's immaculate in here!
What do you do to keep yourself so hygenic?' The woman responds,
'I have a woman in twice a week.'"
--Unknown--

"We're invisible, we're like stealth lesbians, low-flying and undetectable.
Well if they can't see us, then let's do whatever the hell we want."
--Kate Clinton--

" My lover asked me if I wanted to have children.
I told her I didn't know, but we should keep trying."
--Suzy Berger--

"My partner and I joined a support group for monogamous lesbians -
it was great until she met someone there."
--Margo Gomez--

"When my mother found out I was gay she sent me to Juvenile Hall.
That's smart. Sending me to live with five hundred girls who can't get out!"
--Kat Howard--

"Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Groom"
--Name of Robin Tyler's openly lesbian comedy album.--

"I don't think of them as lesbian supervisors,
I think of them as county supervisors who happen to be lesbians.
A lesbian supervisor would have a very different job:
'Hey you, cut those nails before you hurt somebody.'"
--Marga Gomez--
(On lesbians in local government)

"That word lesbian sounds like a disease.
And straight men know because they're sure that they're the cure."
--Denise McCanles--