Gay Quotes

It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.

I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

I'm sure other people in the business have considered reasons why they're doing what they're doing, but I do think that if you're gay you have a responsibility to come out.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.

Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.

Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.

I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.

I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.

It's not being marketed as a gay show by a gay person. It's just Ellen DeGeneres.

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

I never thought I would be somewhat of a gay icon.

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.

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.

A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator.

Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.

The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.

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.

Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.

I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.