The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.
~By Jim Wallis ~
I had heard before that there were rumors I was gay. It's funny. My cousin gets his hair cut at this place, and one of the guys there told him that Scott Wolf was gay. He didn't realize that he was my cousin.
~By Scott Wolf ~
There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.
~By George Weinberg ~
No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.
~By David Copperfield ~
I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.
~By William Weld ~
I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.
~By George Michael ~
I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.
~By Neil Tennant ~
We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
~By Barack Obama ~
Outside of being an actress, I feel like being out is the biggest way that gay people can change perception. There are people that give millions of dollars to gay organizations but are closeted to their own families.
~By Jill Bennett ~
I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
~By Ted Olson ~
Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.
~By Zac Efron ~
I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.
~By Kate Clinton ~
Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.
~By Diana Ross ~
How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?
~By Method Man ~
I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.
~By George Michael ~
I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.
~By Charles Pierce ~
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
~By Ian Mckellen ~
I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.
~By Matt Lucas ~
I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.
~By Tony Campolo ~
To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.
~By Judith Light ~
But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
They probably realized our interview would do more damage to their pro-"gay" piece - rather than help it.
~By Stephen Bennett ~
In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!
~By Bernadette Peters ~
My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.
~By Lance Loud ~
I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.
~By Lynda Barry ~
I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.
~By Lionel Blue ~
I've done the gay, over-the-top guy. I want to jump into another show where I wear pants for the majority of the time.
~By Jai Rodriguez ~
Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.
~By Jean O'Leary ~
I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly.
~By Julian Clary ~
If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.
~By Lance Loud ~
Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.
~By George Weinberg ~
I know a lot of gay males who I work with that are fantastic people and I love hanging out with them. But because I hang out and bring gay men into my life, does that mean that I'm gay? I promise you that I very much love women.
~By Ryan Seacrest ~
Gayness is a non-issue.
~By Sandra Bernhard ~
We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.
~By Neil Tennant ~
I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.
~By Connie Willis ~
The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.
~By Judith Light ~
They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week.
~By Sean Hayes ~
I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends.
~By Laura Innes ~
I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not.
~By Matthew Perry ~
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
~By Robert Reich ~
If people think I am gay, yeah, hey that doesn't bother me. Not at all. What would people think? To me I am such a heterosexual guy. It doesn't even, I don't even think about it.
~By Jason Priestley ~
When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.
~By Neil Tennant ~
This... there's nothing more difficult than this. Because we have really, truly good white people in important positions. And the fact of the matter is that there are a limited number of those positions. And unless we are conscious of the need to have more people of color, gays, other people in those positions we will not change the problem. We're in a position where you have to say who is going to step down so someone else can have power.
~By Mark Lloyd ~
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
~By Horace ~
No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.
~By Robert Plant ~
There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.
~By Gene Robinson ~
Lately, I've been a little sad that I'm not a gay man.
~By Gina Gershon ~
Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.
~By Malcolm Boyd ~
I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.
~By Mary Cheney ~
I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.
~By Howard Dean ~
They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion.
~By Conan O'Brien ~
God did not create gays and lesbians so He could have something to hate!
~By Troy Perry ~
Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.
~By Judy Davis ~
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
~By Andrew Sullivan ~
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
~By Robert Burton ~
To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.
~By Robbie Williams ~
The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.
~By Mia Kirshner ~
It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.
~By Lance Loud ~
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
~By Sean O'Casey ~
People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.
~By Nathan Lane ~
Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words "gay marriage" are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.
~By Dick Morris ~
We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
~By Robin Williams ~
Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.
~By Sean O'Casey ~
I am a gay American.
~By James McGreevey ~
Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
~By Zach Braff ~
It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
~By Randy Harrison ~
I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.'
~By Jim Kolbe ~
And I'd like to believe that's true, you know, kind of showing gay people in this kind of light and - where it's not about that, it's just about the characters for the first time, like those shows were.
~By Sean Hayes ~
I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
~By Ben Affleck ~
I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
~By Barney Frank ~
One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
I want to make films that make a difference. I want to be out and hope that that will make things better for gay people and for myself. I hope one day I can start to make the kind of projects or be involved with kind of projects that can really make a difference.
~By Jill Bennett ~
I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.
~By Jai Rodriguez ~
I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.
~By Joe Rogan ~
I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town.
~By Lesley Gore ~
I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.
~By Ellen DeGeneres ~
If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!
~By Andy Dick ~
Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.
~By Earl Blumenauer ~
As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.
~By Herb Ritts ~
To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
~By Dan Castellaneta ~
If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.
~By Thom Gunn ~
If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.
~By Daniel Keys Moran ~
I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
~By Larry McMurtry ~
Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.
~By Herbie Mann ~
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