“Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State’s pension and seal of approval. They ought to go back to the days of the Stonewall Riots, when the police’s violations of privacy—and private property—were the object of their anger and activism.”

— Ilana Mercer

"'Brokeback Mountain' Revisited," http://www.ilanamercer.com/Brokeback%20Mountain%20Revisited.htm WorldNetDaily.com, June 9, 2006.
2000s, 2006

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