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believe that this perversion of natural instinct, like many other perversions, is an indicator of the profound social and moral decadence of a certain part of current society.
    —Henri Barbusse, Les Marges , March 1926
    Homosexuality foils all productivity.… We must understand that if this vice continues to spread throughout Germany without our being able to fight it, it will be the end of Germany , the end of the Germanic world.
    —Heinrich Himmler, speech of February 18, 1937
    In Soviet society, homosexuality is repressed as a sexual depravation and punished by law, with the exception of mental disorders…. In the bourgeois countries, homosexuality, sign of the moral decomposition of the ruling classes, is an impossible fact to punish.
    —“Homosexuality,” in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia , vol. 12, 1952
    In thirty-eight years, the school has produced no homosexuals. The reason is that freedom results in healthy children.
    —Dr Alexander-Sutherland Neill, Libres enfants de Summerhill ( Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing ), 1960
    Don’t come and tell us, under the pretense that it is an accepted—celebrated even—perversion, that it is not a perversion. Homosexuality remains what it is: a perversion.
    —Jacques Lacan, “Le Transfert,” in Séminaire ( Seminar of Jacques Lacan ), vol. 8, 1960–6
    The pure homosexual, unscathed of all neurotic potentiality, seems to me an exception; we do not see any in our offices.
    —Dr Marcel Eck, “Sodome,” 1966
    Homosexuality remains the dead-end of non-fraternity and of non-life.
    —Dr Eliane Amado Lévy-Valensi, Le Grand désarroi , 1973
    I respect homosexuals just as I respect the infirm. But if they wish to transform their infirmity into health, I must say that I do not agree.
    —Monsignor Elchinger, bishop of Strasbourg, 1982
    It is necessary to sanction homosexual proselytism . In fact, the greatest danger that threatens the world is the decrease in the birthrate in the West and the increase in the birthrate in the Third World. For this reason, I consider that it will lead, if it continues, to the end of the World.
    —Jean-Marie Le Pen, president of the National Front Party of France, 1984
    Unless we get medically lucky, in three or four years, one of the options discussed will be the extermination of homosexuals.
    —Dr Paul Cameron, Conservative Political Action Conference, 1985
    Heterosexuality is best.
    —Edith Cresson, French prime minister, 1991
    This virus [HIV] has had the genius to attack those who have transformed the physiology of reproduction into adulterated pleasure.… In these times when everything that is immoral, even unnatural, is admired, this virus knew where to strike.
    —P. German, president of France’s Académie nationale de pharmacie, 1991
    There are areas in which it is not unjust discrimination to take sexual orientation into account, for example, in the placement of children for adoption or foster care, in employment of teachers or athletic coaches, and in military recruitment.
    —Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, “Some Considerations Concerning the Response to Legislative Proposals on Non-Discrimination of Homosexual Persons,” 1992
    Homosexuals are worse than pigs and dogs.
    —Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe, 1995
    For those who have the responsibility to speak of and name regulations or the establishment of norms in a context of education, teaching, and support, it seems to me to be intellectually and morally honest to dare to insist on the non equivalence between homosexual and heterosexual forms of affection. Differently from other qualifications evoked above, expressions such as ‘abnormal form of sexuality’ or ‘objectively deficient conducts’ do not seem to me to be either insulting or humiliating. Who does not have deficiencies in certain aspects of their character, in their sexuality in particular? Sexuality is not only the area of our capacities and performances, it is also that of