Gay Quotes
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Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.
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As much as the social conservatives might not like to hear it, there will be a time when your grandchildren say: 'What was the argument with gay marriage? Who cares?'
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People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.
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As a gay man in Hollywood, I certainly understand what it means to be in it but not of it, to be marginalized at times and kept out of certain clubs.
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Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
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Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.
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I think that the ideal of men's physiques in general, gay or straight, is one of the most under-talked-about things ever. Ninety-five percent of these bodies that we're seeing, that we're striving so hard to look like, are genetically engineered - like, let's be very clear.
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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.
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I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay.
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Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.
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When I came out, I said, 'I'm going to be a proud gay artist.' I'm not going to be Melissa Etheridge. But she's a goddess!
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There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way.
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The butt is not a magical place that only gay people can visit, like a leather bar or the Liberace Museum.
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The beautiful thing about this country is that I can be a Christian and feel free to do so. Or somebody cannot be a Christian and do whatever that entails. Or somebody can be a Christian and still be gay, and I support it.
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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.
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Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought 'Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!' That's not what I saw necessarily - but I don't think any two people see the same movie.
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A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
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I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.
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Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition?
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When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
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Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.
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My fellow band members don't discuss their loved ones, and I don't feel that just because I am gay, I should have to discuss mine!
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I'm not homophobic; I'm just not gay.
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I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.
