Gay Quotes
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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
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Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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It's not like we wanted to talk about the fact that we're gay all the time, but the world has forced it to be an issue.
John Grant
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The adage that you're either gay or straight or you're lying, well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist.
Clive Davis
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I was so ashamed of who I was. And I also felt like an outcast in gay society as well because I wasn't good-looking enough; my body wasn't good enough.
John Grant
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Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.
Jared Polis
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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
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That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always been a struggle in our politics.
Barack Obama
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A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho.
Scott Thompson
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The Pope was so sick he couldn't even come to the window, he was so sick all he could manage is a 'BLAAARGH (vomiting)'. But even that 'blargh' was anti-gay.
Margaret Cho
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But don't you find this interesting that the one big area where gay men are more like straight men is in sex? I mean, that is?both amusing and odd.
Lesley Stahl
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I don't think we have to make a big thing about being gay, except for when we get together for these gay pride events.
Elvis Duran
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Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.
Luke Evans
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Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.
John Ridley
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So many times I've heard people say that the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples won't really change anything other than some legal and financial stuff. It's a dumb argument: those legal and financial effects matter.
Alice Dreger
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I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.
Andrew Solomon
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West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend.
Jeri Ryan
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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
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So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, it’s extremely tacky and dated—like an old aunt who still talks about ‘colored people’ or limps her wrist to suggest someone’s gay.
David Plotz
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there is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief.
Caitlin Thomas
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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
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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.
Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
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Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.
Jodi Picoult
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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