Gay Quotes

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.

I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.

Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.

In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.

I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals.

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name.

No, I'm not gay.

There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.

No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.

I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.

I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.