Gay Pride Quotes - Page 3

• I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

  Corrine Brown

  Gay, Support, Amendments

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• All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.

  Harvey Milk

  Country, Jobs, Reading

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• To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

  Wendell Willkie

  Love, Hate, Loss

  Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “One World”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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 lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

  Robert Reich

  Gay, Social Values, Rights

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• If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.

  Anita Bryant

  Sleep, Gay, Rights

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

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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'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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• 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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• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco.

  Queen Latifah

  New Year, Fun, Gay

  "Queen Latifah denies coming out at Long Beach Gay Pride parade". Interview with Kerrie Mitchell, www.ew.com. June 1, 2012.

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• It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

  Lance Loud

  Gay, Pleasure

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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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• Yeah, the gay pride movement is precious and all, but I think it's about time we asked ourselves what gay people really have to offer to society.

  Zach Braff

  Pride, Gay, Thinking

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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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• I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

  Lionel Blue

  Gay, Nervous, Sexuality

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• Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.

  Rod Parsley

  Sex, Gay, Disease

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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 grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.

  Gail Collins

  Mother, Home, Pride

  "Marriage Security and Insecurities". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 27, 2013.

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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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• 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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• My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it.

  Amanda Bearse

  Mother, Gay, Lgbt

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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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• My mom blames California for me being a lesbian. Everything was fine until you moved out there. That's right, Mom, we have mandatory lesbianism in West Hollywood. The Gay Patrol busted me, and I was given seven business days to add a significant amount of flannel to my wardrobe.

  Coley Sohn

  Mom, Gay, California

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• To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood.

  Gore Vidal

  Unique, Men, Two

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