I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
~By Laura Innes ~
Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
~By Larry McMurtry ~
I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.
~By Jean O'Leary ~
Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.
~By John Schlesinger ~
I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.'
~By Jason Priestley ~
Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
~By Billie Jean King ~
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep.
~By Matthew Henry ~
There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.
~By Johnny Vegas ~
If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
~By Jim DeMint ~
To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.
~By Tracey Emin ~
I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.
~By Richard Pryor ~
I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.
~By Corrine Brown ~
I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.
~By Sandra Bernhard ~
Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.
~By Little Richard ~
He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.
~By Neil Tennant ~
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 ~
Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.
~By Pam Grier ~
I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
~By Natalie Portman ~
When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.
~By Greg Louganis ~
Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.
~By Anthony Perkins ~
One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
~By Lance Loud ~
We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
~By Barack Obama ~
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 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 ~
It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.
~By Mary Cheney ~
I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
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 ~
Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.
~By Bill Maher ~
My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.
~By Kylie Minogue ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.
~By Cher ~
I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.
~By George Weinberg ~
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 ~
Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.
~By Judith Light ~
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 ~
The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!
~By Ricky Martin ~
My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.
~By Roseanne Barr ~
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 ~
New Jersey is the first state in the country to agree to treat gay and unmarried couples the same as married couples.
~By Michael Adams ~
Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
~By Bette Davis ~
I am not bisexual. I am not gay. I have never had sex with men.
~By Matt LeBlanc ~
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.
~By Julian Clary ~
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 ~
How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?
~By Method Man ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not.
~By Grace Slick ~
There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
~By Calvin Klein ~
I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.
~By Jai Rodriguez ~
The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.
~By Troy Perry ~
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
~By James Thomson ~
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 ~
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 ~
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
~By Zach Braff ~
I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.
~By Ellen DeGeneres ~
We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.
~By Pete Coors ~
I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people.
~By Richard Chamberlain ~
Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.
~By Boy George ~
I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
~By Vanessa Kerry ~
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 ~
I am not gay, I just like pearls.
~By Julian Eltinge ~
I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.
~By Harry Hay ~
West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.
~By Sandra Bernhard ~
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
~By Andrew Sullivan ~
These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
~By Derek Jarman ~
The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.
~By Neil Tennant ~
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
~By Edmund White ~
I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.
~By Jonathan Davis ~
It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
~By Audre Lorde ~
I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me.
~By Vincent Gallo ~
You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.
~By Judith Light ~
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 ~
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 opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
~By Barack Obama ~
When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
~By Kate Clinton ~
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 once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.
~By Emo Philips ~
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
~By Ouida ~
Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.
~By Martina Navratilova ~
I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
~By Lance Loud ~
I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.
~By Ang Lee ~
I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
~By Ed Case ~
I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.
~By Judith Butler ~
If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals.
~By Norm MacDonald ~
I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.
~By Bob Mould ~
Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.
~By Erykah Badu ~
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