Michael Nava: Sexuality

Michael Nava is American writer. Explore interesting quotes on sexuality.
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“For many years, the single most potent weapon in the armoury of invisibility was the shame with which gay men and women were taught to regard their sexual nature. What kindles the fury of the antigay right at the gay and lesbian claim to equality and freedom is the implicit rejection of that shame. The energy released by that triumph over shame is what makes the movement so powerful. The gay and lesbian movement signals the existence of a people who have decided that they know more about themselves than what has been shoved down their throats by an ignorant and fearful society.”

Michael Nava

Source: Non-fiction, Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994), p.129-130

Freedom , People , Nature , Fear

“AIDS has had the effect of forcing gay men to examine their sexual expression.”

Michael Nava

Source: Non-fiction, Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994), p.55

Men

“Our culture is in large part a majority-takes-all, reward-and-punishment system of sexual preference. It expresses itself by not only marginalizing minority preferences but by obsessively associating them with immorality and perversion.”

Michael Nava

Source: Non-fiction, Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994), p.38

Parting

“This argument is not about sexual practices or particular lifestyles. It hinges on whether gay and lesbian Americans are entitled to the same enjoyment as their fellow citizens of the freedom to make choices about how to live their lives without suffering discrimination in consequence.”

Michael Nava

Source: Non-fiction, Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994), p.154

Making love , Suffering , Freedom

“It was the mystery of my sexual nature that a body which was the mirror image of mine could be so compelling and feel so unfamiliar. When I was younger, it had seemed urgent to unravel this mystery because I believed that if it could be explained, the haters would stop hating us. Now I believed that they had no more right to an explanation about me than I did about them and, in any case, they would find other reasons to hate. Now I was simply grateful for his body beside me, known and unknown.”

Michael Nava

Source: Henry Rios series of novels, The Hidden Law (1992), p.55

Hate , Feeling , Nature