Gay Quotes

We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.

I am a huge fan of gays. They love me, and I love them. They think of me as sort of a gay icon.

I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.

If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.

Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.

Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.

As I walk around, I have met 70-year-old women who live on the Upper West Side who love the show. And I met a couple in Kansas - a couple of truck drivers who drove around together - who loved it. It's popular all over the place and definitely in the gay community.

I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.

I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'

Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.

Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'.

To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.

These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.

To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.

I know a lot of gay males who I work with that are fantastic people and I love hanging out with them. But because I hang out and bring gay men into my life, does that mean that I'm gay? I promise you that I very much love women.

When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier - as though, after decades in the public eye, they'd suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator.

I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

It never occurred to me that I needed to say that I was gay. I simply am. Anyone who knows me or who's been around me ten minutes knows it too.

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

I'm not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.