Beyond Shame Quotes

“Shame...is a first rate form of social control. Shame is what keeps us in line, what prevents us from discovering not so much who we are, but what we might become.”
― Michael Bronski, Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality

“The reality of AIDS in America is that gay men of color-finding no home in either their birth communities or the highly commercialized, white gay world-represent the majority of HIV infection in America. The time
has come for the gay community to take responsibility for reaching these gay men as gay men, insisting that their lives are as important as the first group of gay men lost to AIDS in the 1980s.”
― Patrick Moore, Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality

“Without a sense of pride in our history, the gay community will”
― Patrick Moore, Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality