Gay Pride Quotes - Page 2

• And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

  Robert MacNeil

  Pride, Son, Gay

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• When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.

  Thom Gunn

  Teacher, Teaching, Pride

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• Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.

  Anthony Perkins

  Pride, Gay, Rocks

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• The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

  Judith Light

  Pride, Gay, Years

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• We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.

  Kate Clinton

  Pride, Gay, People

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• The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill.... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick.

  Ronald Goldman

  Pride, Gay, Sick

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• [Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

  James Howe

  Gay, Rights, Lgbt Pride

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• If people think I am gay, yeah, hey that doesn't bother me. Not at all. What would people think? To me I am such a heterosexual guy. It doesn't even, I don't even think about it.

  Jason Priestley

  Gay, Thinking, People

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• At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.

  George Clooney

  School, Gay, Issues

  "George Clooney Slams Prop 8". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2008.

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• We are better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history.

  John E. Jones III

  Gay, Law, People

  "Pennsylvania's gay marriage ban struck down by federal judge" by Lauren Gambino, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2014.

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• I landed on Gay Pride and I couldn't believe my eyes! Not only were gay people real - I had only heard rumours - but they had parades. There were men covered in glitter bound together with furry handcuffs. I felt like I was in outer space, I honestly thought I had arrived at the happiest place on earth.

  Pamela Anderson

  Real, Believe, Eye

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

  Keanu Reeves

  Gay, Land, People

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• We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that in a thoroughly intolerant attitude we hesitate not a minute to secure an organized minority, or even a majority, to attempt by resolution or law to impose our will on a large body of people in matters where no moral wrong is involved and where liberty is curtailed.

  John J. Raskob

  Respect, Attitude, Men

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• I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

  Paul Newman

  Inspiring, Kids, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states.

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Pride, Gay

  "The Obama Brief" By Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2014.

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• Life is only complete when your loved ones know you. When they know your true feelings, when they know who and how you love. Life is simple when your secret is gone. Gone is the pain that lurks in the stomach at work, the pain from avoiding questions, and at last the pain from hiding such a deep secret.

  Robbie Rogers

  Pain, Love Life, Gay

  "'My secret is gone': Former Leeds midfielder and US international comes out as gay" by Paul Cockerton, www.mirror.co.uk. February 15, 2013.

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• It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

  Lance Loud

  Gay, Pleasure

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• I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.

  Mary Cheney

  Gay, Firsts, Not Sure

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

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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 am reminded of a colleague who reiterated all my homosexual patients are quite sick - to which I finally replied so are all my heterosexual patients.

  Ernest Van den Haag

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, Sick

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• I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals.

  Norm MacDonald

  Gay, Broadway, Knows

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

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• If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

  Jim DeMint

  Teaching, School, Gay

  "Stephen Colbert for U.S. Senate! (Seriously)" by Dean Obeidallah, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

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• I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

  Dana Carvey

  Gay, Laughing, Als

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• I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Gay, Icons, People

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• Straight Americans need... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.

  Bruce Bawer

  Heart, Gay, Years

  "If Davide Geffen or Elton John is rich, isn't it a sigh of God's favor?". The Advocate Magazine, April 28, 1998.

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