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== Quotes ==
 
== Quotes ==
  
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'''Dick Armey: “Barney Fag”''', ''1995''
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<blockquote>During a 1995 radio interview, Dick Armey of Texas, the Republican Majority leader, discussed a book that he had written about freedom: "I like peace and quiet, and I don't have to listen to Barney Fag -- Barney Frank -- haranguing in my ear because I made a few bucks off a book I worked on."<ref>Jerry Gray, “No. 2 House Leader Refers to Colleague With Anti-Gay Slur,” New York Times, January 28, 1995.</ref></blockquote>
  
  

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Dick Armey: “Barney Fag”, 1995

During a 1995 radio interview, Dick Armey of Texas, the Republican Majority leader, discussed a book that he had written about freedom: "I like peace and quiet, and I don't have to listen to Barney Fag -- Barney Frank -- haranguing in my ear because I made a few bucks off a book I worked on."[1]


James Baldwin, date unknown

"Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality."[2]


Barney Frank: "Miss America", 2008?

Asking the Republican White House to support more government intervention to help homeowners at risk of foreclosure is "like asking me to judge the Miss America contest -- if your heart's not in it, you don't do a very good job."[3]


Diamanda Galas, date unknown

I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men.[4]


References

  1. Jerry Gray, “No. 2 House Leader Refers to Colleague With Anti-Gay Slur,” New York Times, January 28, 1995.
  2. http://www.allgreatquotes.com/gay_homosexual_quotes.shtml
  3. David Herszenhorn, "A Liberal Wit Builds Bridges To the G.O.P.", New York Times, May 13, 2008, pp. A1, A17.
  4. http://www.allgreatquotes.com/gay_homosexual_quotes.shtml