Gay Quotes
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The perpetuation of family and cultural pressures to conform to prescribed masculine behaviors is what creates social isolation and distress in many young gay and trans people of color.
Karamo Brown
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The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
Sean O'Casey
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I am not proud to be gay any more than I am proud to be right handed or to breathe oxygen.
Cleve Jones
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As an actor, it was important to me to play gay characters because, growing up, it was something I never really saw done on television and in film, and I was questioning why there weren't more people like me.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
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I think worldwide, the movement has been towards accepting and respecting the individuality and the rights of gay people, lesbians and transgender people. Here, however, age-old cultural mindsets - which also comes from Victorian times, affect the thinking of people.
Kabir Bedi
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You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
Alan Ball
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As for those who are screaming about dictatorship...when I hear that come up I think that it is better to be a dictator - than to be gay.
Alexander Lukashenko
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People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.
Auguste Renoir
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The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.
James McGreevey
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I went to a gay bar, they wanted proof of sex so I showed them, they said it wasn't enough.
Jack Roy
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If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me.
D. H. Lawrence
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I think that gay people should have the right to get married by Elvis like everybody else.
Margaret Cho
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I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
Rita Mae Brown
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At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, 'How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?' He answered, 'All of them.' I wasn't surprised. But, just the same, it was kind of spooky, because not one of them had ever given me the faintest sign that he or she knew. If I had spoken about it myself, most of them would have felt it was in bad taste.
Christopher Isherwood
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Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.
James McGreevey
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Middle and high school is a time of people telling you who you are before you know who you are. I was in advanced classes at Frick and Schenley, and people would say I was trying to be white because of the way I spoke. Or they'd say I was gay.
Kyle Abraham
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We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral.
John Shelby Spong
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'The Green Lantern' seems a little calculated to me. It's like, 'We've got to get on this gay bandwagon and make this character gay.' Like anything else, there's earnest expressions in the culture and then there's kind of bandwagoning.
Christopher McCulloch
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My mom was a little weepy. My dad was very logical about it. Once they realized you can't change, they wanted to know that you can be happy and be gay. Once they realized that, they were very cool about it.
John Cameron Mitchell
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There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself.
Jonathan Groff
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Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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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
