"The charge of homophobia is equally easy to refute. If I really were a “gay-basher”, as some headline writers so crassly suggested, why would I have asked Andrew Sullivan, of all people, to be the godfather of one of my sons, or to give one of the readings at my wedding?"
— Niall Ferguson apologizes for arguing Keynesian policy is flawed because Keynes was gay and had no children, thus had no stake in the future.
"What generates their homophobia is their hidden enjoyment of their own affection for men. They don’t allow themselves to see they feel affectionate towards men in ways they feel towards women. If they allow themselves to accept this, they will not need to define themselves by acting homophobic. Zizek writes “move the underground, disturb the implicit homosexual practices which sustain the explicit homophobia”, by which Zizek refers to hetero men and how they are reluctant to see the bonds between each other as sexual even when the sexual aspects emerge quite clearly."
— Andre Vantino (via jujutsu-with-zizek)
