Gay Quotes
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There were a lot of points where I would start to come out, face stern resistance and mockery from people I thought were my friends, and then reverse course. I was scared. I don't think I ever said, 'I'm gay,' or, 'I'm trans.' It was more like, 'Is it normal for guys to crossdress a lot?'
Chelsea Manning
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What's it like to figure out you're gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life, I felt doomed. I could imagine no path that would allow me to realize my authentic self. I felt the need to lie, even to myself, insisting: I am straight.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
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there is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief.
Caitlin Thomas
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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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After coming out as gay, I soon felt a lot more comfortable in my life, moment to moment.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
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Beautiful as sweet!And young as beautiful! and soft as young!And gay as soft! and innocent as gay.
Edward Young
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It was my own internalised homophobia. I didn't want to be gay.
Jane Lynch
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I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school, I'm from gay liberation, we wanted to end war forever and smash the patriarchy and these are values I still hold dear but, I believe that any person who wants to get married should have that right and I know that Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people serve with distinction in the armed forces, and that when they are killed, supposedly serving our country in these wars, that I personally do not support, their partners back home do not receive death benefits.
Cleve Jones
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When you're 17 in the suburbs and know only three gay people, holding hands with your girlfriend is a proclamation.
Mary Lambert
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Gay marriage should be legalized in america because gay men are the only men who want to be married.
Chuck Klosterman
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It's like, 'Oh, well of course you want gay marriage, you're gay.' I think when heterosexual people are talking to their peers and they're like, 'This is an equal rights thing,' it's a little bit easier.
Jillian Michaels
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There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.
Mary Cheney
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People come up to me in pubs - gay pubs, mind you - and can't believe that I'm gay.
Luke Evans
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By the time I enrolled in the military at 20, I had spent years in denial about who I really was. I was openly gay and would go through periods of cross-dressing, and had even thought about transitioning, but I was in such complete denial.
Chelsea Manning
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I go to church too, y'all. And I've heard it, too. And I want to say to all of our faith leaders out there that I understand that probably in my Baptist church in Maryland, it is not likely that there will be performed - in my church - gay marriages.
Donna Edwards
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Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party.
Vivian Stanshall
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I do think television has really fantasized it to the point where now everyone wants a gay best friend.
Lindsay Mendez
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I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I'm for anything life-affirmative. I'm for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who's different.
Matthew McConaughey
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Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
Ben Affleck
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I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open.
Janis Ian
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Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading way and to be truly vile about gay people. They invent this idea of people who are politically correct, with a rigid, monstrous attitude to life so they can attack. But we have all had to learn to modify our language. That's all part of being a decent human being.
Clare Short
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In my work with young Jewish adults in the gay community, I hear their stories of discrimination, of struggling for acceptance, of feeling invisible not for what they have done but simply for who they are.
Lynn Schusterman
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I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.
John Galliano
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I'd love to see an openly gay player, a really, really good gay player come out.
Charles Barkley
