Gay People Quotes - Page 2

• I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently.

  Judith Light

  Gay, People, Theatre

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• Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!

  Andy Dick

  Gay, Bisexual, People

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

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• I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many Christian people I know who are gay and love their religion...

  Elton John

  Christian, Gay, Thinking

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2006.

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• There is an alarming increase of violence and harassment against gay people, something that is being legitimized by the regime as they brand homosexuality as something abnormal and dangerous to children.

  Cecilia Malmstrom

  Children, Gay, People

  "Situation in Russia". Personal blog at the European Commission website, ec.europa.eu. January 17, 2014.

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• All in all it's a pretty great day for major league sports. At long last they've decided that gay people are fit to be included in their elite club-one that's already allowed in adulterers, wife-swappers, gamblers, cheaters, rapists, racists and slaughterers of man. Those who've abused spouses, drugs, alcohol, family members and animals. Congratulations, gay athletes. Are you sure you want to hang out with these people?

  Jon Stewart

  Change, Sports, Congratulations

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• I think it's going to take three or four generations of gay people being able to get married before it starts feeling less like we're going through these motions, that we're aping a heterosexual institution.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Thinking, People

  Source: content.time.com

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• I felt a variation of the fear that a lot of gay people have, that their families will reject them. I thought if I were to come out to the world then I would risk losing them.

  Candace Gingrich-Jones

  Gay, People, Risk

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sex, Couple, Mistake

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• Many people say, "Oh, we have nothing against Puerto Ricans," and I wanted a way to unmask the people that say that they have nothing against gay people.

  Luis Negron

  Gay, People, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The only gay people who remain in the closet are those who choose to, who don't want to publicly declare their sexuality, which is true of heterosexual people as well. I don't walk around with a button or a T-shirt that says "I am a heterosexual." I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely. Although God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.

  William Friedkin

  Taken, Gay, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Liberals in blue states just think that when they look in the mirror and say to themselves "I'm for the environment, I'm for the children, I'm for the gay people, I'm against war," it pits automatically, and the oppressor/oppressed leftist mindset that anyone that would disagree with them isn't conservative, they're crazy. They're Nazis, they're facists, they're evil.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Children, Crazy, War

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.

  John Shelby Spong

  Gay, Past, Years

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• Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination. The new ‘niggers’ are gays. It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change. The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people.

  Bayard Rustin

  Gay, Law, People

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• The truth is even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface we have huge issues at play that really do affect women. It's time for all the women in America and all the women that love women and all the gay people and the people of color that we've all fought for to fight for us now.

  Patricia Arquette

  Fighting, Gay, Men

  "Patricia Arquette Just Made a Rally Cry for Women at the Oscars" by Justine Harman, Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. February 23, 2015.

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• Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and have or adopt children. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else?

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Children, Home, Gay

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• Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading way and to be truly vile about gay people. They invent this idea of people who are politically correct, with a rigid, monstrous attitude to life so they can attack. But we have all had to learn to modify our language. That's all part of being a decent human being.

  Clare Short

  Attitude, Gay, Ideas

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• It's 2014, we can't stand for bigotry like this, also I hate gay people

  Chris Broussard

  Hate, Gay, People

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• In my dream world gay people in America would get the right to marry, and not a one of them would use that right.

  David Sedaris

  Dream, Gay, America

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• The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. And that is also an Indian way of seeing.

  Judy Grahn

  Sex, Attitude, Gay

  Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”

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

  Mary Cheney

  Gay, People, United States

  Mary Cheney (2006). “Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life”, Pocket Books

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• For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.

  Gary Ackerman

  Military, Gay, People

  "Rep. Ackerman Warns of Terrorist 'Platoon of Lesbians'". Gary Ackerman's remarks during House Foreign Affairs Committee on the State Department budget at the United States Capitol in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2007.

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• The interesting thing about gay people is that you can't really put on a wedding without them. They're the ones who make your dress, and do the flowers and the catering. They've toiled in the wedding industry all these years but were never allowed to do it themselves.

  David Sedaris

  Flower, Gay, Years

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• When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Song, Gay, People

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• I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

  Larry Kramer

  Pride, Gay, Thinking

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• There are a lot of myths about gay people.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Gay, People, Myth

  "Interview with Cynthia Nixon; Interview with Jennifer Love Hewitt; Interview with Serena Williams". "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. May 4, 2012.

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