Being Gay Quotes

• I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

  Jai Rodriguez

  Gay, Thinking, Who I Am

  "THE LEADING MEN: Angel of Music". Interview with Wayman Wong, www.playbill.com. August 2, 2004.

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• I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies

  Tommy Kirk

  Apology, Gay, Ashamed

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• The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.

  Mia Kirshner

  Character, Gay, Littles

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• My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

  Jai Rodriguez

  Mother, Gay, Sentences

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

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• There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.

  Johnny Vegas

  Gay, Fans, Stuff

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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• Homosexuality is God's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.

  Samuel Austin Allibone

  Children, Gay, Lgbt Pride

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  Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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  Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Beautiful, Being Yourself

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

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• There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.

  Boy George

  Falling In Love, Sex, Gay

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• My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take.

  Nick Jonas

  Love, Gay, Age

  "The A-List Interview: Nick Jonas". Interview with Brandon Voss, www.advocate.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Gay people are born into, and belong to, every society in the world. They are all ages, all races, all faiths. They are doctors and teachers, farmers and bankers, soldiers and athletes. And whether we know it or whether we acknowledge it, they are our family, our friends, and our neighbors. Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.

  Hillary Clinton

  Teacher, Athlete, Gay

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• 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.

  Scott Thompson

  Gay, Thinking, July

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• Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

  Kate Clinton

  Gay, Lgbt, Mouths

  FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Jun 24, 2014

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• It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

  Francis Maude

  Rain, Gay, Lgbt Pride

  "UK Politics 'Your Family Matters Most'". The Sunday Times Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. November 15, 1998.

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• The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Gay Marriage, Human Rights

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Marriage, Gay, Lgbt Pride

  "Obama and Gay Marriage: Runaway Bride?". www.newyorker.com. June 30, 2011.

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• It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

  Lucille Ball

  Happiness, Happy, Spring

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• Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

  Plato

  Powerful, Philosophy, Gay

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• Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

  Ernest Gaines

  Motivational, Respect, Integrity

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• We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

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• It takes no compromise to give people their rights

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Rights, People

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• There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way.

  Lady Gaga

  Believe, Gay, People

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• 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.

  Lance Loud

  Gay, Emotional, Lgbt

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• My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Sex, Gay

  "Somerset Maugham". Book by Ted Morgan, 1980.

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