"In films, the regular directors would say, "Whenever you're ready, Miss Gray." On the stage, they'd yell, "Gray, get your ass in here!" a proposito della differenza tra lavorare per il cinema o a teatro.
(Beatrice Gray, attrice e ballerina; Contea di Hancock, 3 marzo 1911 – California, 25 novembre 2009)
"Elizabethan society was one which lacked the idea of a distinct homosexual minority, although homosexuality was none the less regarded with a readily expressed horror. In principle it was a crime which anyone was capable of, like murderor blasphemy. (...) It was, according to John Rainolds, not only a 'monstrous sin against nature' but also one to which 'men's natural corruption and viciousness is prone'. It is why it was sometimes attributed to drunkenness and why a sixteenth century minister accused of sodomy said when first confronted that what he had done he had done in his sleep. The logic is the same as that of Thomas Shepard. It was not part of the individual's nature: it was part of all human nature and could surface when the mind was dulled or sleeping, much as someone might commit murder in a drunken fit or in a dream. But the Elizabethan 'sodomy' differed from our contemporary idea of 'homosexuality' in a number of other ways also. It covered more hazily a whole range of sexual acts, of which sexual acts between people of the same sex were only a part. It was closer rather to an idea like debauchery." dal saggio Homosexuality in Renaissance England del 1982.
(Alan Bray, attivista per i diritti LGBT; Leeds, 13 ottobre 1948 – Londra, 25 novembre 2001)
"Sì, ho litigato col Papa. Ci ho litigato perché sono stato in Vaticano, e ho visto i tetti d'oro, e dopo ho sentito il Papa dire che la Chiesa si preoccupava dei bambini poveri. Allora venditi il tetto amigo, fai qualcosa!" dopo aver assistito alla messa di Giovanni Paolo II in Vaticano nel novembre 1985.
(Diego Armando Maradona, calciatore, campione del mondo nel 1986; Lanús, 30 ottobre 1960 – Tigre, 25 novembre 2020)
