Gay Quotes - Page 37

• You see gay relationships that are just stunning in the quality of the relationship.

  Justin Welby

  Relationship, Quality, Stunning

  "Justin Welby speaks of same-sex challenges for Church". www.bbc.com. March 21, 2013.

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• I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.

  Gary Bauer

  Party, Believe, Fighting

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• I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay.

  Jason Bateman

  Cities, People, My Best Friend

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• The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.

  Lance Bass

  Community, Fickle, Knows

  "Kim Kardashian gets classy in Playboy". www.today.com. October 22, 2007.

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• We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.

  Rob Bell

  Brother, Uncles, Real

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• The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party.

  Tammy Bruce

  Christian, Dream, Encouragement

  "Why Tea Party women lead the charge". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2010.

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• I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.

  Chris Colfer

  Growing Up, Character, Saws

  "*Glee'*s Chris Colfer Wants to Show You His Ass". Interview with Brett Berk, www.vanityfair.com. April 27, 2010.

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• The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.

  Chris Colfer

  Real, People, Attention

  "*Glee'*s Chris Colfer Wants to Show You His Ass". Interview with Brett Berk, www.vanityfair.com. April 27, 2010.

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• I'm gay, and I was born this way.

  Cat Cora

  Way, Born, Born This Way

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• Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.

  Jack Antonoff

  Fighting, Majority, Faces

  "Straight Allies: The Importance and the Realities" by Jack Antonoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.

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• Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Religious, Church, Religious Life

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• In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.

  Mario Cantone

  Religious, Years, Wings

  "Mario Cantone on His First San Francisco Stint" by Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2010.

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• Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  New York, Fate, Thinking

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.

  Adam Garcia

  Fun, Tease, Persons

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• I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment.

  Brad Pitt

  Hurt, Growing Up, Believe

  "Brad Pitt on Gay Marriage, Smoking Pot and 'Real Love'". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. August 5, 2009.

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• I have love in my life, a soul mate u2014u00a0absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don't get married, I replied, 'Maybe we'll get married when it's legal for everyone else.' I stand by that, although I took a lot of flak for saying it u2014u00a0hate mail from religious groups. I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment.

  Brad Pitt

  Religious, Hurt, Growing Up

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• With this look, who's going to think I'm gay? I don't lend myself to that type of confusion. Do I look like a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them?

  Mel Gibson

  Moving, Thinking, Confusion

  El Pais (Spain) interview (1991), as quoted in "The Passion of the Gibson" by Andy Ostroy, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2010.

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• I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet.  They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

  Alan Cumming

  Lying, People, Actors

  "Alan Cumming: gay actors should be out and proud" by Brian Braiker, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I’ve had many, you know, happy ending sleepovers’in my early youth — my period of exploration. I think that’s essential. Anyone who hasn’t had a gay moment is probably trying to avoid some confrontation with a reality in their life.

  Ezra Miller

  Reality, Thinking, Trying

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• Roman’s a little gay boy who lives in me. And every time I talk he sort of just appears and I tell him, ‘Roman, you know, stop it, you’ve gone mad, I tell you, mad.’ He’s an outlet to say what I need to say but sometimes don’t want to.

  Nicki Minaj

  Boys, Mad, Gone

  "Nicki Minaj: 'I am doing everything the boys can - plus more...'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.

  Bella Abzug

  Men, Law, Political

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• It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel-selling-ring-tones act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride.

  David Cross

  Pride, Redneck, America

  "David Cross returns to stand-up to make America great again". Interview with Dustin Waters, www.charlestoncitypaper.com. February 24, 2016.

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• Gay men are perfect men for girls who are tough. They're not threatened by strong women, and they're usually very in touch with their feelings and pay attention to details. I've always had an affinity with gay men.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, Strong Women, Perfect

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• I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body!

  Madonna Ciccone

  Men, Body, Trapped

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

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• But you are also the biggest threat of all ...You are a gay person I like. Your threat is that you make being gay seem non-threatening. It's almost as if your happiness does not take mine away.

  Stephen Colbert

  I Like You, Doe, Threatening

  "Ice cream? Immigration? 12 ways Colbert kept truthiness alive" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. April 10, 2014.

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