Baldrick: Why not make her think you prefer the company of men?
Edmund: But I do, Baldrick, I do!
Baldrick: No, no, My Lord. I mean the intimate company of men.
Edmund: You don’t mean... like the Earl of Doncaster...?
Baldrick: I mean just like the Earl of Doncaster.
Edmund: That great radish? That steaming great left-footer? The Earl of Doncaster, Baldrick, has been riding side-saddle since he was seventeen!
Baldrick: And who would want to marry the Earl of Doncaster?
Edmund: Well, no-one ... Brilliant! Of course! No-one would marry the Earl of Doncaster! Except, perhaps, the Duke of Beaufort. The Black Adder: The Queen of Spain’s Beard, BBC 1983
I don’t like to dance with women. J Edgar 2011 starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Judi Dench & Armie Hammer & Naomi Watts & Josh Lucas & Ed Westwick & Dermot Mulroney & Damon Herriman & Jeffrey Donovan & Ed Westwick & Zach Grenier et al, director Clint Eastwood, Edgar to mother
We do not intend to admit to our campus any homosexuals. If any of you have this tendency and have not completely abandoned it, may I suggest that you leave the university immediately after this assembly ... We do not want others on this campus to be contaminated by your presence. Ernest Wilkinson, Brigham Young University, 1965 lecture ‘Make Honor Your Standard’
Brigham Young University will respond to student behavior rather than to feelings or orientation. Students can be enrolled at the university and remain in good Honor Code standing if they maintain a current ecclesiastical endorsement and conduct their lives in a manner consistent with gospel principles and the Honor Code.
Advocacy of a homosexual lifestyle (whether implied or explicit) or any behaviors that indicate homosexual conduct, including those not sexual in nature, are inappropriate and violate the Honor Code. Brigham Young University Honor Code
Brigham Young University police arrested 24 people, among them five current students, who participated Tuesday in a march and demonstration by a national gay-awareness group.
At the event, the group marched around the edge of campus and then staged a ‘die-in’ on campus property near the university's main entrance, just past one of the university's icons – the sign Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve.
The students could face disciplinary action under BYU’s Honor Code if university officials judge the march, organized by the group Soulforce, as advocacy of a gay lifestyle, which is contrary to the teachings of BYU’s owner, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Homosexual conduct is banned by the Honor Code, but gay students can study at BYU if they avoid advocating a gay lifestyle and any behavior that indicates homosexual conduct. Deseret News 12th April 2006
‘I am gay. I am also LDS ... I traveled down a tortuous path of internalized homophobia, immense self-hatred, depression and suicidal thoughts.
‘Despite the calluses on my knees, frequent trips to the temple, fasts and devotion to my mission and Church callings such as elders’ quorum president, I continually failed to attenuate my homosexuality.
‘... murderers, satanists, prostitutes, pedophiles and partakers of bestiality. Imagine having to live with this rhetoric constantly being spewed at you ...
‘I implore the students at BYU to re-assess their homophobic feelings. Seek to understand first before you make comments. We have the same needs as you. We desire to love and be loved. We desire to live our lives with happiness. We are not a threat to you or your families. We are your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, neighbors, co-workers and friends, and most importantly, we are all children of God.’
A few weeks later, a despondent Stuart took his own life on the steps of a LDS chapel in Los Altos, California.
Stuart’s blood today stains the hands of the Mormon Christ. Steve Benson, board post 2nd December 2002, ‘Diversity, Not Perversity: My Prison Break From the Homophobia of Mormonism’
I regretfully read your letter of June 8 informing me that because of my opinion piece in the Salt Lake Tribune of June 4, you have decided not to rehire me to teach the philosophy courses I had already been scheduled to teach through next year ... Now let me address some of the issues you expressed in your letter.
Church leaders have consistently opposed same-sex attraction and gay marriage. I have never agreed with this position believing that it was based in misunderstanding and in a purely human bias of cultural place and time and not reflective of divine will. Yet I have never publicly, or in the classroom, opposed their policy. Yet when church leaders take a political stand on a moral issue, then I am not only engaged as a member of the church, but also as an American citizen. As an American citizen, I publicly expressed an honest opinion contradicting a political statement by our church leaders. I fear for the church and the university if the time comes when the members of the church, including faculty at BYU, are not allowed to disagree, either in public or private, with political positions taken by the church. Jeff Nielson, BYU Professor, letter to Daniel W Graham, Department of Philosophy chair, Brigham Young University
Catholics and other Christians are against abortions and they’re against homosexuals. Well who has less abortions than homosexuals? Leave these fucking people alone for Christ’s sake! Here is an entire class of people guaranteed never to have an abortion! And the Catholics and the Christians are just tossing them aside ... You’d think they’d make natural allies. George Carlin, Back in Town, 1996
I was never confused ... Curious is a better word actually. Al Murray: The Pub Landlord: My Gaff, My Rules, live London’s Playhouse Theatre, Al
Early Public Information Film: ‘No matter where you meet a stranger be careful if they are too friendly. One never knows when a homosexual is about ... What Jimmy did not know is that Ralph is sick. A sickness that is not visible like smallpox, but no less dangerous and contagious. A sickness of the mind. You see, Ralph was a homosexual.’ David Walliam’s Awfully Good Ads, ‘Boys Beware’, Channel 4 2011
Poofter, eh? The League of Gentlemen s1e1: Welcome to Royston Vasey, BBC 1999
Hands up who’s gay. The League of Gentlemen s1e4: The Beast of Royston Vasey, Theatre player to schoolchildren
Dykes on the other hand are evil. ibid.
I’ve struggled and continue to struggle from time to time with same sex attraction. Ted Haggard
My sexual addiction was no different from someone suffering from alcoholism. Ted Haggard
There is a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I’ve been warring against it all of my adult life. Ted Haggard
Older man/younger boy relationships were celebrated in ancient Greece. Michael Scott, Who Were the Greeks? BBC 2013
Homosexuality is in fact a mental illness which has reached epidemiological proportions. Charles Socarides, psychiatrist
Ladies they say, Gay men are the best friends they have. ’Cause they don’t want anything from you and you don’t want anything from them and you can just hang out and be with them and its fun. You could talk to them and all that bullshit. And they'll be hanging out with them. You know what’s real scary about that? That new AIDS shit. AIDS is scary because it kills [censored] AIDS. Kills people! It petrifies me because girls be hanging out with them, and one night they could be in the club and having fun with their gay friend and give him a little kiss. And go home with their AIDS on their lips. They’ll be home with their husband and like five years later, – ‘Mr Johnson, you have AIDS.’ ‘AIDS? But I’m not a homosexual.’ ‘Sure you’re not a homosexual.’ Eddie Murphy: Delirious, 1983
AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. Jerry Falwell
In 1952 the greatest code breaker of all time [Alan Turing] who had played a critical role in saving Britain from the Nazis was in torment. He was also a recently convicted criminal. Britain’s Greatest Codebreaker, Channel 4 2011
He was also the visionary scientist that gave birth to the computer. ibid.
During his lifetime Turing’s achievements went unrecognised. Instead he was disgraced simply for being a homosexual. ibid.
Marijuana leads to homosexuality ... and therefore to AIDS. Carlton Turner, White House Drug Czar 1986
Jonathan Ross: Good to see you. How’s it hanging?
Julian Clary: Oh very well thank you. Very nice of you to recreate Hampstead Heath for me here. [laughter] As a matter of fact I’ve just been fisting Norman Lamont. [prolonged laughter]
Jonathan Ross: Let me ask you, Julian –
Julian Clary: Talk about a red box.
I’ve only been in the Force a few weeks and already I’m president of the Shiny Helmet Club. Julian Clarey as PC adorned in PVC
Don’t ask, don’t tell. Sam Nunn’s summary of Clinton administration’s compromise on policy of homosexuals serving in military