"A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves."
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"How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?“
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"Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials."
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"I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking."
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"I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city."
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"The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone."
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"Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school."
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