Gay Quotes
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If we gays want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government.
Cleve Jones
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I’m a child of immigrants, I’m black and I’m a big woman and gay on top of that.
Chika
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My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.
George Michael
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Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I think everyone should be with who they love. I don't want to be controversial or stir up a bunch of trouble but people are going to love who they are going to love. I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals. Ha ha ha!
Dolly Parton
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And with glorious triumph, they Rode through England proud and gay, Drunk as with intoxication Of the wine of desolation.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I really couldn't come out until after I got my citizenship, because it was a disclaim - back then, it could have been a disqualifier. I could have been denied my U.S. citizenship because I was gay. So I didn't - I stayed quiet.
Martina Navratilova
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I remember being afraid of doing drag when I was younger because I didn't really like my feminine side - most gay guys at some point are told that that's the worst part of you, so that becomes a negative thing.
John Cameron Mitchell
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I don't feel like I'm writing music for gay people. I'm a gay man who is writing music about one tiny little experience of what it's like to be a human on this planet.
John Grant
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I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.
Pam Grier
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There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Won't someone please answer my prayers before I'm old and gray. I've been lonely too long and all my family thinks I'm gay.
Rod Stewart
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I'm on the younger end of Gen X, and for me, growing up gay was not cool.
Jillian Michaels
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Bob Fosse, even though he wasn't gay. He was certainly queer and had a huge effect on the 'Hedwig' film, as did Hal Ashby and Robert Altman, who had a weird butch queer feeling about him. His films almost flirted with camp but in an extremely realistic acting way.
John Cameron Mitchell
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To be perfectly honest, I've gotten attention from gay men for a long time.
David Walton
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I used to be gay, but I was forced to give it up, because it made my eyes water.
Michael Gambon
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Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.
Scott Thompson
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I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they're gay.
Benjamin Carson
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I am a gay American.
James McGreevey
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Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about.
Maureen Dowd
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Repression is good for cultural achievement. Let's face it. What are gay boys going to be like? I always like to say the 19th-century gay boy was Oscar Wilde, the 20th-century gay boy was Stonewall and ACT UP. And in the 21st century, we have blocking people on Grindr. That's what we've accomplished. Without some kind of traction.
Daniel Mendelsohn
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It's 2014, we can't stand for bigotry like this, also I hate gay people
Chris Broussard
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I don't know. I don't know shit about love. And even though I'm gay, I don't know shit about being gay.
Benjamin Alire Saenz