Being Gay Quotes - Page 5

• I think you are looking at sexuality and not attributes, and I think it's odd because the conservative mantra is a meritocracy. And I think what you're suggesting is the fact that being gay parents makes you not as good as others. And I would suggest that a loving, gay family with a financially secure background beats the hell out of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline any day of the week.

  Jon Stewart

  Gay, Thinking, Parent

  "Mike Huckabee, Part 2". "The Daily Show" official website, December 09, 2008.

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• The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological minority variant in the human condition drives me crazy, far crazier than I am driven by any loud-mouthed purveyor of hateful nonsense.

  James Alison

  Strong, Crazy, Gay

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate analogy is left-handedness, which also, as it happens, used to be regarded as some sort of defect in a normatively right-handed humanity.

  James Alison

  Gay, Humanity, Minorities

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I think as a writer, it's important to show the other part of being gay, not only the sex part.

  Luis Negron

  Sex, Gay, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Part of my motivation in the search for a cause of being gay was the need to find "something that has gone wrong that I can put right," and it was good, spiritually fruitful, to discover that the question "What went wrong in where I came from?" is actually not a useful one.

  James Alison

  Motivation, Gay, Needs

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I hope being gay isn't the most interesting thing about me.

  Jason Wu

  Gay, Interesting, Most Interesting

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• Give yourself permission to enjoy being gay. You do have to give yourself permission. You have been told you may not. Give yourself permission to be free.

  Harry Hay

  Gay, Giving, May

  Source: progressive.org

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• The good thing about being gay, though, I always believed, is that you didn't make anyone go to a wedding. Nobody wants to go to a wedding. Nobody. It kind of bothers me now that you have to go to gay weddings, too. I don't care. It's still a wedding. And I would give anybody double gifts if they would elope.

  David Sedaris

  Gay, Giving, Care

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• Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.

  William J. Clinton

  Book, Reading, Gay

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• I think Justin Timberlake verges on being gay, he gets gay airplay. Britney gets loads as well. If you're male and you're black you're not going to get much play in a gay club.

  Andy Bell

  Gay, Thinking, Play

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• And being gay isn't so easy, either I've always said that if anyone ever thought I was straight they must need glasses - but when I finally came out and said, "Yes, I do sleep with men and I'm gay," yeah, I lost record sales. There's no question - big, big time.

  Boy George

  Sleep, Gay, Men

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• Ultimately, I felt fortunate, because in many ways I did identify with aspects of being gay that were very stereotypical. I was a big theatre kid in high school, I was creative, I was very emotionally sensitive, even hypersensitive. I loved female divas.

  Christopher Rice

  School, Kids, Gay

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• Being gay is immutable. Maybe someday we'll figure out more of the science and it will be changeable, but we have no leads so far.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gay, Someday, Figures

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Being gay is immutable.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gay

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gay, People, These Days

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. The Mormon Church is especially focused on family, and I'd have hoped, therefore, that the Mormon Church would especially have celebrated how all of these people who might have been lonely and suicidal and childless are now able to lead this other life. I would have thought it would be a cause for immense celebration. Instead it has been, obviously, a cause of great concern to the Church and its leadership.

  Andrew Solomon

  Lonely, Suicidal, Gay

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gay, Happy Life, Perception

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• It's also one thing to see a celebrity or some kind of character on a TV show being gay. It's a totally different thing when you know your husband... not your husband, but your brother or your friend or the dude you hung out in high school was gay. I mean, that is what changes people's minds, what changes people's minds.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Brother, Husband, Mean

  "Big Think Interview With Andrew Sullivan". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay is the last adjective I would use to describe myself. The idea of being gay, like a little sparkler, never occurs to me. So if you ask me if I'm gay, I say no.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Gay, Ideas, Lasts

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.

  Nate Berkus

  Believe, Gay, Matter

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• My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it really.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Mother, Father, Gay

  "Crystal clear". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

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• There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'

  Nathan Lane

  Moving, Gay, Attention

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've spent fifteen years of my life fighting for our right to be free and make love whenever, wherever... And you're telling me that all those years of what being gay stood for is wrong... and I'm a murderer. We have been so oppressed! Don't you remember how it was? Can't you see how important it is for us to love openly, without hiding and without guilt?

  Larry Kramer

  Fighting, Gay, Years

  Larry Kramer (2000). “The Normal Heart and the Destiny of Me: Two Plays”, p.97, Grove Press

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• I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Gay, Scripture

  "John Brennan talks War on Terror; Joel and Victoria Osteen's message of hope". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 29, 2012.

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• For them [LGBT group], language has to say exactly what it means. "Why aren't you proud of being gay?" they wanted to know. "Why are you so dark? Why are you so morbid? Why are you so sad? Don't you realize, we're all okay? Let's celebrate that fact." But that is not what writers do. We don't celebrate being "okay." If you want to be okay, take an aspirin.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mean, Dark, Gay

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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