Gay Rights Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Gay, Adults, Criminals

  Interview, Ottawa, 22 Dec. 1967

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• Growing up in the '80s, questions of style and music and youth culture all seemed inherently political - like gay rights issues, dressing up, wearing makeup, arms protests. A lot of attitude and opinions were expressed through clothes, and they all were meaningful. So in that way, I was so excited about the connection between our private lives and politics - who I kiss, how I like to dance.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Meaningful, Attitude, Growing Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Gay Marriage isn't Special Rights, it's Equal Rights. 'Special Rights' are for political churches that don't pay taxes.

  John Fugelsang

  Gay, Rights, Political

  FaceBook post by John Fugelsang from Jun 11, 2013

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• Fundamentalists tell us to fear the specter of special rights for gay citizens, though of course gay Americans aren't after special rights - merely equal rights. The irony is that special rights actually do exist in this country-for religious groups.

  Sean Faircloth

  Country, Religious, Gay

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• It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in.

  Annie Laurie Gaylor

  Gay, Simple, Rights

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• If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Gay

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• By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.

  Scott Fujita

  Country, Gay, Past

  "“Why I Support the National Equality March”: NFL’s Scott Fujita Speaks Out for Gay Rights". Interview with Dave Zirin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.

  Bill Maher

  Kids, Gay, Law

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

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• The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

  James McGreevey

  Moving, Gay, Thinking

  "Jersey Boy". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. April 29, 2009.

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• Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Hilarious, Sexy

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 1 Dec. 1975

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• Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren't allowed to get married in most parts of America. I'd go on a march for gay rights any time.

  Pink

  Gay, Rights, America

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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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• Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

  Kate Clinton

  Gay, Lgbt, Mouths

  FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Jun 24, 2014

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• The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Party, Gay, Rights

  At the March on Washington, April 25, 1993.

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• I'm a UFC fighter, a macho-type sport. I am a heterosexual guy in a tough macho sport, which is exactly the reason I feel a duty to say I support gay marriage and gay rights. I have nothing to gain personally from supporting this issue, and that's the point. Society as a whole is better when there is equality, and I want to live in a country where everyone has the same rights because we all benefit from that.

  Rashad Evans

  Sports, Country, Gay

  "UFC Fighter Rashad Evans Comes Out In Support Of Gay Marriage" by Jim Budzinski, www.businessinsider.com. March 13, 2013,.

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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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• I was reminded that it is my obligation not only as an elected official in a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to remain open to the possibility that my unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Gay, Support

  Barack Obama (2006). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.223, Crown

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• Our president has made historic progress toward equality. He repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell” so that no American ever again has to lie about who they are in order to serve the country we love. Republicans want to write discrimination into our Constitution. But the Wisconsin I know believes that with each passing year and each generation, our country must become more equal, not less.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Country, Lying, Believe

  "Tammy Baldwin Speech Targets Tommy Thompson, Scott Walker". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Barack and I see a future... where no one, no one is forced to live in the shadows of intolerance.

  Joe Biden

  Gay, Shadow, Intolerance

  Joe Biden's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 6, 2012.

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• If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests; the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those who are making it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should make for themselves.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Gay, Differences

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• There were a lot of Romneys. There's the Romney who was going to be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy; now there's a Romney who checks with Rick Santorum on that issue.

  Barney Frank

  Gay, Rights, Issues

  "Frank rants against 'Myth Romney'" by Kevin Crilli, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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• You're the reason why selfless soldiers won't be kicked out of the military because of who they are or who they love.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Gay, Soldier

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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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 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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