Gay Quotes - Page 35

• I never stopped being attracted to women. Bisexuality is misunderstood; the adage is that you're either straight or gay or lying, but that's not my experience. To call me anything other than bisexual would be inaccurate.

  Clive Davis

  Lying, Bisexual, Misunderstood

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• This guy says, "I'm perfect for you, 'cause I'm a cross between a macho man and a sensitive man." I said, "Oh, a gay trucker?"

  Judy Tenuta

  Memorable, Men, Sensitive Man

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• Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Home, School, Jail

  Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 3, ch. 4

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• In fact, the Alejandro video...is a celebration of my love and appreciation for the gay community, my admiration of their bravery, and their love for one another, their courage in their relationships.

  Lady Gaga

  Appreciation, Bravery, Community

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• Outsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish?

  Paul Lynde

  Thinking, Comedian, Defense

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• My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having come through the fire, they can't touch me.

  Marlon Riggs

  Struggle, Men, Fire

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• When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Song, People, Grew Up

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• The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.

  Barney Frank

  Writing, Rights, Important

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• I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good.

  Lara Stone

  Children, Boys, Would Be

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

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• Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.

  Larry Kramer

  Telling The Truth, Libel, Slander

  Larry Kramer (1990). “Reports from the Holocaust: Making of an AIDS Activist”

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• There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.

  Audre Lorde

  Men, Silence, Valleys

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• When I see young men and old women come out of the closet and face being called faggots and dykes and pariahs and betrayers of the family dream, then I am honored to be gay because I belong to a people who are proud.

  Arnie Kantrowitz

  Dream, Men, People

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• Gay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do.

  Judy Grahn

  Thinking, Civilization, People

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• Most gay bashers will be wearing what gay people had on four years earlier - only in polyester with a Penney's label.

  Paul Rudnick

  Years, People, Four

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• Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start.

  Jason Collins

  Lgbt Community, May, Prejudice

  "Jason Collins’ Courage in Coming Out" by Abbe Land, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2013.

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• When people have asked me in the past if I'm gay, I've said "I'm not gay, but I'm festive."

  Sharon Gless

  Past, People, Lgbt

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• I used to look at gay men and think, 'I'm not like that, I don't want to be like that, that's not me.'

  Ricky Martin

  Men, Thinking, Looks

  "Ricky Martin: I bullied gay people". www.news.com.au. August 27, 2013.

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• It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: 'Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport. These guys would go crazy.' First of all, quit telling me what I think. I'd rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can't play.

  Charles Barkley

  Sports, Crazy, Team

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• I've never been turned down for a role because I'm gay. I'm a character actor, and that's probably why. I don't find Hollywood, in my own experience, to be homophobic. ... But I do think the straight folks will continue to play the straight roles.

  Jane Lynch

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Jane Lynch: Studios Won’t Cast Gay Leading Actors". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• They spent the night in jail, where their progressive views on gay marriage served them well.

  Ann Coulter

  Night, Views, Jail

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• If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power?

  Jeff Greenfield

  Couple, Government, Law

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• Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Mirth, Abandonment

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

  Jesse Jackson

  Punishment, Dungeons, States

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• We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.

  Walter Scott

  Thinking, Clouds, Gold

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.623

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• Gays have rights, lesbians have rights, men have rights, women have rights, even animals have rights. How many of us have to die before the community recognizes that we are not expendable?

  Octavia St. Laurent

  Men, Animal, Rights

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