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"All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about."

Harvey Milk

(Source: think-progress, via barackobama)

"To everyone kvetching that Barack Obama’s announcement today was for political purposes, I would suggest to you that there are 43 former presidents who refused to even whisper support for same-sex marriage. Their “political purposes” ignored people for generations. Obama’s “political purposes” might finally secure rights for millions of people, myself included. So, if you absolutely must, why not bitch about the other, silent 43 rather than bitching about the one who finally spoke up?"

"We have a sexual ethic which is the joke of the world. We are laughed at in every country of the world for our attitudes towards sex. The United States is living out some mad, Protestant, 19th-century dream of human behavior. Instead of saying, aren’t we wicked because we have a high divorce rate, or aren’t we wicked because men like to go to bed with men and women like to go to bed with women, why not begin by saying that our basic values are all wrong? The idea of marriage is obsolete in our society. Everybody knows it. There is natural monogamy. There are people who, indeed, enjoy one another’s company. But can you imagine a man and a woman who are told that for 60 years they’re going to live together and have sex only with one another? This is nonsense! Why not begin by accepting the fact of what human beings really are, men and women: which is we are open. We have something that André Gide referred to as floating sensuality. We can be aroused by this, by that, not necessarily by men, not necessarily by women. So let us begin with the reality of human relations and not start talking about moral fiber because we’re not living out this mad, 19th-century dream that everybody must float in Noah’s ark in twos: one male, one female, for 60 years in one another’s company. This is what’s at fault. This is breaking down, and I think the so-called breaking of the moral fiber of the country these commentators speak of is one of the healthiest things that’s begun to happen."

Gore Vidal

"Here it is. One more, one less. Another wasted love story. I really loved this one. When I think that it’s over, that I’ll never see him again… well, yes, I’ll bump into him. Act as if we had never been together, then we’ll slowly think of each other less and less until we forget each other completely. Almost. Always the same for me. Break up, break down, drink up, fool around, meet one guy, then another, fuck around. Forget the one and only. Then after a few months of total emptiness, start again to look for true love. Desperately look everywhere and meet a new love and swear it is the one, until that one is gone as well."

Julie Delpy, 2 Days in Paris