Gay Men Quotes

• I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.

  Cher

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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• The most important political step that any gay man or lesbian can take is to come out of the closet. It's been proven that it is easier to hate us and to fear us if you can't see us.

  Amanda Bearse

  Hate, Gay, Men

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• Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

  Zach Braff

  Gay, Men, Eleven

  "See 'The Broken Hearts Club' with someone special" by Paul Clinton, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2000.

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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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• A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really.

  Julian Clary

  Sex, Gay, Men

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• 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.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hate, Gay, Men

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• Without gay men, I am nothing.

  Janice Dickinson

  Gay, Men, Gay Pride

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• Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Baby, Real

  "The Other Side". The New York Times Opinion Page, www.nytimes.com. December 09, 1993.

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• Lately, I've been a little sad that I'm not a gay man

  Gina Gershon

  Gay, Men, Littles

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• But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

  Armistead Maupin

  Children, Gay, Men

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• People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me

  Nathan Lane

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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• A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.

  Lorna Luft

  Gay, Men, Leading On

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.

  Bob Mould

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Adrian, www.adequacy.net. May 30, 2007.

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• A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Gay, Men, Happens

  "Steve Guttenberg Takes on Rear Ends, Leonard Maltin, And Directing". Interview with Brandon Judell, www.indiewire.com. January 9, 2003.

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• They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!

  Lea DeLaria

  Gay, Men, Vegas

  "Box Lunch". Comedy album by Lea DeLaria, May 5, 1997.

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• In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Gay, Men, Heterosexuality Is

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• I thank God for creating gay men. Because if it wasn't for them, us fat women would have no one to dance with.

  Roseanne Barr

  Gay, Men, Creating

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• All of my life I've spent a lot of time with gay men - Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson - who are my colleagues, coworkers, confidantes, my closest friends, but I never thought of who they slept with! They were just the people I loved. I could never understand why they couldn't be afforded the same rights and protections as all of the rest of us. There is no gay agenda, it's a human agenda

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Gay, Men, Rights

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• Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.

  Warren Farrell

  Gay, Men, Black

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

  Audre Lorde

  Women, Responsibility, Gay

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.115, Crossing Press

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• I can't think of many reasons as to why, but gay men and straight women both share an inherent attraction to men, and attraction informs a large part of human nature.

  Gideon Glick

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.

  Kesha

  Grief, Gay, Men

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

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• I would love if gay men responded to me. All I want is for many gay men to dress up as me for Halloween.

  Mindy Kaling

  Women, Halloween, Gay

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• Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.

  Michael Patrick King

  Mistake, Gay, Men

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• Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.

  Camille Paglia

  Dream, Sex, Gay

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.24, Vintage

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