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" Francisco, agudo observador de «su» curia, no se equivocó, como ya he mencionado, al evocar en su discurso «las quince enfermedades curiales», la esquizofrenia existencial, los cortesanos que «asesinan a sangre fría» la reputación de sus colegas cardenales, el «terrorismo de las habladurías» y esos prelados que se «crean un mundo paralelo, donde dejan a un lado todo lo que enseñan con severidad a los demás y empiezan a vivir una vida oculta y, a menudo, "
― Frédéric Martel , In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy
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" In Taiwan as in Shanghai, as well as in Rio, Moscow, Jakarta, and Beirut, the same global gay icons appear in gay-friendly cafés and bookstores and on the walls of LGBT organizations. On five continents, I see Harvey Milk, Lady Gaga, Elton John, Ricky Martin, and, of course, the two Brokeback Mountain cowboys everywhere. There’s even a Brokeback Mountain Café in the gay Chapinero neighborhood of Bogotá. "
― Frédéric Martel , Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the World
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" As for the HRC’s Sandra Hartness, here’s how she summarizes current developments: “We represent a modern activism, a postgay activism, if you like, that seeks to build bipartisan, local, decentralized coalitions and be very pragmatic. Our goal is reality. In that sense, we are very different from the old gay movement. If a Republican defends our position, we support him or her. And if a Democrat is hostile to same-sex marriage, we get him defeated! "
― Frédéric Martel , Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the World
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" who is watching the scene, ‘Madam, what think you of this play?’ she replies, speaking of her own character: ‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks.’ The phrase, which reveals hypocrisy, means that when one protests too violently against something there is a strong likelihood that one is being insincere. That excess gives you away. Hamlet understands by her reaction, and the king’s, mirrored in the king and queen in the play, that the couple probably poisoned his father. Here is a new rule of The Closet, the third "
― Frédéric Martel , In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy