Gay Pride Quotes - Page 3

• When you finally embrace the gift of your sexual orientation it IS the end; the end of shame, fear and oppression. You leave the darkness of the closet and begin a life of honesty, authenticity and freedom.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Honesty, Gay, Darkness

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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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• For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

  Tammy Bruce

  Pride, Gay, Rights

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.87, Crown Forum

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• The only people are those who don't love anybody.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, People

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• My mom will never march in a gay pride parade with a big sign. She is very private. She lives in Chattanooga. She tries so hard to understand me and my life. But she said to me once, "Leslie, if I live to be 105 I'll never understand this need you have to air your dirty laundry. Why can't you just whisper it to a therapist?!" She doesn't understand.

  Leslie Jordan

  Mom, Dirty, Gay

  "July 16, 2008". Today Interview, www.today.com. July 16, 2008.

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• Make this man a saint now, OK?

  Elton John

  Pride, Gay, Men

  "Elton John calls Pope Francis 'my hero' at AIDS benefit, honors New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo", www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2014.

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• A peacock escaped from the Central Park Zoo and wandered around the city. Either that or I just saw a pigeon on his way to a gay pride parade.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Funny, Zoos, Pride

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• God says, 'One woman, one man,' and everyone says, 'Oh, that's old hat, that's that old Bible stuff,'" he said. "But I'm thinking, well let's see now. A clean guy - a disease-free guy and a disease-free woman - they marry and they keep their sex between the two of them. They're not going to get chlamydia, and gonorrhea, and syphilis, and AIDS. It's safe.

  Phil Robertson

  Sex, Pride, Gay

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• This is an effort to have government coerce, force speech and behavior. And it's being pushed and advocated by the gay community. This is their ultimate goal. It's to not allow for diversity of opinion on this issue, because they don't want to be celebrated, they want to force everyone to not only agree with them but also have to finance their agenda.

  Michele Bachmann

  Gay, Pride, Issues

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• We live in an uncertain world and we want to believe that what a man is and what a woman is-I know that. And people don't want to critically interrogate the world around them. Whenever I'm afraid of something or I'm threatened by something, it's because it brings up some sort of insecurity in me. I think the reality is that most of us are insecure about our gender. They think, 'Okay, if there's this trans person over here, then what does that make me?

  Laverne Cox

  Believe, Pride, Gay

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• I'm Michael Sam, I'm a football player, and I'm gay.

  Michael Sam

  Football, Pride, Gay

  "'I'm Michael Sam, I'm an American football player … and I'm gay'". www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2014.

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• He's trying to do info-tainment. He doesn't really want to talk about trans issues, he wants to sensationalize my life and not really talk about the work that I do and what the purpose of me writing this book was about.

  Janet Mock

  Book, Writing, Pride

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• This is the amazing thing about you. Had I not known anything about your story, I would have absolutely not a clue that you had ever been a boy - a male. Which makes me absolutely believe you always should have been a woman.

  Piers Morgan

  Believe, Pride, Gay

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• No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.

  David Copperfield

  Gay, Hair, Self

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• In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Anton Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

  Bernadette Peters

  Gay, Careers, Challenges

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.

  Troy Perry

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, Shepherds

  "Lord Is My Shepherd and He Knows I'm Gay". Book by Troy Perry, 1972.

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• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

  Tim Field

  Meaningful, Being Yourself, Bullying

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• Trump's creating laws for crimes that don't exist. In Canada, we have Prime Minister Trudeau in the gay Pride parade waving a flag.

  Eric Walters

  Pride, Gay, Law

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it.

  Jennifer Nettles

  Country, New York, Writing

  ChicagoPride.com Interview, chicago.gopride.com. August 26, 2009.

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• I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

  Ed Case

  Pride, Gay, Amendments

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• Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.

  Larry Kramer

  Pride, Gay, Thinking

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• Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

  Judy Davis

  Father, Pride, Gay

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• As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Mother, Pride, Gay

  Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.42, Broadview Press

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• My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.

  George Weinberg

  Pride, Gay, Till The End

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• Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea.

  Derek Jarman

  Sea, Lgbt Pride, Lgbt Community

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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