Gay Men Quotes - Page 2

• I'm for all kinds of gay rights. I'm almost like a gay man myself.

  NeNe Leakes

  Gay, Men, Rights

  "EXCLUSIVE: NeNe Leakes on 'The New Normal,' Gay Rights and Her 'Glam-Baby'". Interview with Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. September 11, 2012.

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• I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.

  Mark Gatiss

  Gay, Men, Class

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• I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away with that deflection. I think it may have helped to introduce Brian as a believable gay man. Maybe not. However it played, it's been out of my hands for a long time.

  Gale Harold

  Character, Gay, Men

  "Queer as Folk‘s Gale Harold". Interview with Ilana Rapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• I think when young kids can see Jason Collins, myself and Michael Sam, and Abby Wambach and Megan Rapinoe and different athletes come out, it will definitely change and encourage younger gay men and women to play the sport.

  Robbie Rogers

  Sports, Athlete, Kids

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• Like no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to empathize with the plight of our fellow man. While most would agree that the AIDS orphan or the transfusion victim or the wronged wife contracted the disease through no fault of their own, it has too often been easy for some to point to the unfaithful husband or the promiscuous youth or the gay man and say This is your fault. You have sinned. I don't think that's a satisfactory response. My faith reminds me that we all are sinners.

  Barack Obama

  Husband, Gay, Fighting

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August stands apart, ... He has his special way of seeing things. I remember he and I were at one of those fancy benefits the Rep has. The gay men's chorus was singing, and I was very proud to have brought them into a Rep event. And August says, 'You know, I don't see any black people up there.' That was his focus the lives of black people.

  Daniel J. Sullivan

  Drama, Gay, Dark

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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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• Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'

  Graham Norton

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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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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• No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.72, Vintage

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• When I was signed, at the age of 23...the fact that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very unusual.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Gay, Men, Age

  "Rufus Wainwright: 'A Diaper Is As Inspiring As a Drink'". Interview with Julia Lurie, www.motherjones.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Is it like gay men go into the priesthood because they figure, Well, this'll solve my problem. I can't be a homosexual in the priesthood; it'll just go away. Maybe I'll try it with the Republican Party.

  Bill Maher

  Party, Gay, Men

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• My sexuality is straight transvestite or male lesbian. It seems we are beyond the idea that I am gay and hiding it. If I had to describe how I feel in my head, I'd say I'm a complete boy plus half a girl. I don't seem to have the sixth sense that women have or their stronger senses of taste and smell. Gay men can also have it but straight men don't.

  Eddie Izzard

  Girl, Gay, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cause if you're a transvestite, you're actually a male tomboy, that's where the sexuality is. Yeah, it's not drag queen, no; gay men have got that covered. This is male tomboy, and people do get that mixed up, they put transvestite there - no no no no! Little bit of a crowbar separation, thank you! And gay men, I think, would agree. It's male lesbian, that's really where it is, ok? Because... it's true! 'Cause most transvestites fancy girls, fancy women. So that's where it is.

  Eddie Izzard

  Girl, Queens, Gay

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• Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.

  Louis C. K.

  Gay, Men, People

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• I work out with alot of gay guys at the gym. I do, because my only goal is to get into gay shape. Now, you know what I'm talking about. Gay men are the most ripped kind of... listen... I don't know how strong you have to be to blow a guy, but I'm guessin', there is some muscle involved.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Strong, Gay, Blow

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• [Robert Gottlieb] wouldn't have published 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was a Rhodes Scholar. He was on the swimming team. Had this great California crew cut and this great smile. Life magazine covered his graduation, and Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed it. We all expected him to be president some day. But he committed suicide when he was in his 50s. If he were gay in the 1950s, then the rest of what I wrote was commentary because life was so miserable for gay men back then. And that's why he committed suicide.

  Kevin Sessums

  Suicide, Team, Cutting

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• As a gay writer and someone who began by writing autobiographical fiction, it's hard to get away from chatter of "You're just a narcissist," "You're just a gay man," "You're just looking for yourself in somebody else," "Why does your boyfriend look like you," a kind of baggage that you already have to create in the face of.

  Douglas A. Martin

  Writing, Gay, Men

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The most important thing is to find your own path - to be true to yourself. I'm a happily married gay man, but I don't advocate marriage for everybody. Different strokes for different folks.

  Ivan Heng

  Gay, Men, Important

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Republicans are always saying we should privatize things like schools, prisons, social security - hey, how about we privatize privacy! Because if the government forbids gay men from tying the knot, what is their alternative? They can`t all marry Liza Minnelli.

  Bill Maher

  School, Gay, Men

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.158, Rodale

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• The Kinsey Institute says gay men have bigger sex organs. Hence the origin of gay pride.

  Jay Leno

  Sex, Pride, Gay

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• I love gay and lesbian parents. But I think we need a law that says lesbians and gay men have to raise their children together. This way, the kids would not only know how to build bookshelves, but they'd also instinctively know how to decorate them.

  Joan Rivers

  Children, Kids, Gay

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me”, p.21, Penguin

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• A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho.

  Scott Thompson

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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• I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.

  Ben Folds

  Gay, Men, Looks

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Lots have said since what the film Maurice meant to gay men. I had a guy in New York who recognized me and jumped off a bus to tell me how I changed his life. Isn't that something?

  James Ivory

  Gay, Men, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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