Gay Quotes

• I have been a proud, openly gay man since I was 18.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Proud
  • Gay

• I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Friends
  • Gay
  • Glad

• I've been standing with and united with the gay community. I know so many gay men and women that homophobia is such a baffling thing for me.

  

  Lynda Carter
  • Men
  • Women
  • Community

• The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our head says, 'I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips or a girl, but at least I'm not Gay or Black or a Jew.' Meaning: I may be me - but at least I have the good sense not to be YOU.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Time
  • Good
  • May

• Our politics at its best involves us recognizing ourselves in each other. And our politics at its worst are when we see immigrants or women or blacks or gays or Mexicans as somehow separate, apart from us.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Women
  • Worst
  • Recognizing

• I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it's thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I've seen that people can be cruel, and it's very distressing.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Being an openly gay black man, unfortunately I've had experiences working with individuals who've tried to exploit my blackness or my gayness in a way that doesn't make me feel comfortable, or they try to manipulate me into being a caricature of myself.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Black
  • Gay

• I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.

  

  Bryan Batt
  • People
  • Life
  • Lonely

• The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Black
  • Poetry
  • Gay

• Be able to see people's humanity. I think the way that you do that and see people for more than their surface value is, say, you're reading something in the news: the gender pay gap, or gay adoption, anything that involves a group of people being marginalized.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • People
  • Reading
  • Value

• The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.

  

  Mary Schmich
  • Gay

• 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.

  

  Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • Fear
  • Gay

• Why do people care if I'm gay or not?

  

  Katherine Moennig
  • People
  • Why
  • Gay

• I like the fact that it's like The Ramones. You just have to change your name, and you're a Ramone. You just have to put the wig on, and you're Hedwig. Women have played it. Gay men, straight men, you know.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Gay

• The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.

  

  Edmund White
  • Long
  • Marriage
  • Religious

• I am going around British secondary schools, as a gay man talking about my life, and encouraging schools to get rid of homophobic bullying and to care for their gay members of staff and their gay students.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • School
  • Encouraging

• Honestly, when I first heard that there were rumors out there about me being gay, I thought, 'Wow, someone must really hate me.' There's nothing wrong with being gay, but I just couldn't understand why someone would make up lies like that.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Up
  • Why
  • Hate

• Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.

  

  Jai Rodriguez
  • Community
  • Boy
  • Gay

• Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.

  

  David Letterman
  • Mind
  • Guy
  • Paris

• After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You've got to go on a T.V. show and tell everyone you like gay people.' I was like, 'Why?' He was like, 'Because you're a Republican.' I was like, 'I'm sorry who's stereotyping who?'

  

  Angie Harmon
  • People
  • Why
  • Friends

• If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't reproduce. Part of it seems to have to do, as a lot of Christian resistance to gayness does, with a dim view of sex that is not procreative, and that is therefore lascivious.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Christian
  • Sex

• Oh, love is timid in its birth!Watching her lightest look or stir,As he but look'd and breathed with her.Gay words were passing, but he leantIn silence; yet, one quick glance sent,-His secret is no more his own,When has woman her power not known?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Power
  • Words
  • Silence

• 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.'

  

  Jim Kolbe
  • Gay

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