Aidan

“Desire seizes that man whose soul has been brushed by another man's kiss and, holding him by the collar says: This is your existence -- and it is natural, it is positive, it is good, and it is spinning a new way to be.”
― Douglas Sadownick, Sex Between Men: An Intimate History of the Sex Lives of Gay Men Postwar to Present

“The biblical basis of homophobia does not work as an explanation in that the bible is extremely hard on many behaviors that have never evoked the kind of pogroms, mob rage, and vigilante executions that homosexuality has provoked.”
― William Wright, Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals

“There is nothing to say that a backlash from current tolerant attitudes is impossible, even in the United States, even at Harvard. All it would take would be some Taliban-like zealots to take control, any group from the many flourishing throughout the United States who believe they are hearing the voice of god when they are really hearing the darker corners of their Pliocene genomes.”
― William Wright, Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals

“If practiced among adults, homosexuality produces no victims or physical damage, unlike many crimes that do not evoke similar levels of outrage.”
― William Wright, Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals