Gay Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Ambition, Welcome, Clear

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4809, Delphi Classics

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• I always wonder why Republicans hate gay marriage, because they certainly don't hate gay prostitutes.

  Margaret Cho

  Hate, Republican, Gay Marriage

  "Margaret Cho: Assassin". TV Special, www.imdb.com. September 2, 2005.

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• I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells.

  Ralph Ellison

  Laughter, Air, Floating

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.134, Vintage

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• By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.

  Aldous Huxley

  Night, Church, Clubs

  Aldous Huxley (1932). “Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

  Juvenal

  Girl, Happy Life, Age

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• When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mother

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• You must not refuse any additional cups of tea under the following circumstances: if it is hot; if it is cold; if you are tired; if anybody thinks that you might be tired; if you are nervous; if you are gay; before you go out; if you are out; if you have just returned home; if you feel like it; if you do not feel like it; if you have had no tea for some time; if you have just had a cup.

  George Mikes

  Home, Tired, Thinking

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• If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you.

  Troy Perry

  Years, Organization, Touching

  The Christian Century, 1996.

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• I've had people say to me, 'Look at the sky, the fields, the ocean, the beautiful sunset. Isn't that proof positive of God?' Following that line of thought, look at the magnificent rainbows after a big rainstorm. Isn't that proof positive that God is gay?

  Ray Romano

  Beautiful, God, Ocean

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• If it is gay, ribald and lascivious night-life you are after, Israel is not the place for you. The night clubs you do find are nearer in spirit to a YMCA than to dens of iniquity.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Night

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• Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted.

  Kitty Kelley

  Stars, Issues, People

  "Goosey Lucy and Gay Marriage" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.

  Antonio Banderas

  Character, Thinking, Guy

  "Banderas: I'm No Latin Lover". abcnews.go.com. August 1.

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• If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

  Ken Livingstone

  Rights, London, Firsts

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• I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.

  Ellen Barkin

  Crazy, Cancer, Thinking

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• I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.

  Larry Kramer

  Men, Thinking, Black

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• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  Larry Kramer

  Men, World, Stuck

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• George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.

  Larry Kramer

  Men, Names, Intellectual

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• I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.

  Larry Kramer

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Expression

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• I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.

  Larry Kramer

  Suicide, School, Yale

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• Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.

  Larry Kramer

  Fighting, Thinking, Issues

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• The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

  Larry Kramer

  America, Stupidity, Important

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• There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?

  Larry Kramer

  Issues, Movement, Extinction

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• I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent. America has watched me parent my children on TV for six years. They know what kind of parent I am.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Rosie O'Donnell: Being a Gay Mom, abcnews.go.com. March 14.

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• I don't think you choose whether or not you're gay.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Thinking, You Choose

  "Rosie O'Donnell: Being a Gay Mom". abcnews.go.com. March 14.

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