Gay Quotes

• Thank God for gay men. Thank God for gay men, because if it were not for gay men, I would not talk to men at all.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • God
  • Men
  • Gay

• Peter Jennings came to us and said to make a PSA, 'Let's Talk About AIDS.' But I was naive about how the virus is contracted - until Magic Johnson came out. I'd stereotyped it, thinking it was a gay disease, a white man's disease.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Thinking
  • Gay
  • Magic

• 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.

  

  John Schlesinger
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Gay

• When you're 17 in the suburbs and know only three gay people, holding hands with your girlfriend is a proclamation.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • People
  • Gay
  • Girlfriend

• I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti), AIDS (fund-raiser) because I don't want to be forever spouting, diluting the impact of addressing my most urgent concern - legal and social equality for gay people worldwide.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Forever
  • Equality

• I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Gay

• If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to most people, given how comfortable and how out I am being the only late-night gay talk-show host.

  

  Andy Cohen
  • People
  • Life
  • Night

• When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

  

  Carol Anshaw
  • Gay
  • Assumption

• When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.

  

  Bill Condon
  • Women
  • Gay

• I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Why
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• Those people who espouse conservatism that causes them to be under permanent attack by the left gay activists cabal, those people are in need of a protection. They're not doing that because it's fun. They're not taking that stand because it's fun, they're taking that stand because that's what they believe in, and they need to have somebody standing up for them, and I'm more than happy to do so.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Live
  • Fear

• And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Society

• The difference between being in the closet and out of the closet as a gay man is such a huge shift. I feel so connected still to that 22-year-old, but the idea that I was not open with that part of my life - which I am now so open about - is sort of surreal.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Life
  • Gay

• Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of 'hip-hop,' I think, is 'gay.' Like yo, you play a record and if it's wack, 'That's gay, dog!' And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it, fam.'

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Friends
  • Stop

• Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.

  

  Anthony Perkins
  • People
  • Rock
  • Gay

• Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Respect

• I am not gay.

  

  Roberto Cavalli
  • Gay
  • Am

• But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

  

  James Thomson
  • Nature
  • Imagination
  • Gay

• I'm not gay, a lotta people think I'm gay. I have a girlfriend. She thinks I'm gay.

  

  Tom DeLonge Box Car Racer
  • Thinking
  • Gay
  • Girlfriend

• 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.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • Faith
  • Religious
  • Marriage

• The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. If my brother gets hit by a car tomorrow, my sister-in-law will go on living materially in the same way that she does now. If the same thing happens to me, a great deal of what I have will go off to the taxman. That's because of one of, as you doubtless know, eleven hundred federal laws that favor marriage.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Great
  • She

• As I got more into gay rights, I got more into equal pay, and you just see that it's all connected. You can't really speak out on one thing and not another without it not being the full picture.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Picture
  • Gay

• Yeah, the gay pride movement is precious and all, but I think it's about time we asked ourselves what gay people really have to offer to society.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Time
  • Society

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