Gay Quotes - Page 9

• You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.

  Barry Goldwater

  Funny, Military, Atheism

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

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• Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

  Dick Morris

  Public Opinion, Unions, Splits

  "Bush's Weapon Against Dean" by Dick Morris, www.foxnews.com. November 5, 2003.

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• They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!

  Lea DeLaria

  Men, Vegas, Years

  "Box Lunch". Comedy album by Lea DeLaria, May 5, 1997.

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• If I was gay, I would be the best gay of all history.

  Julio Iglesias

  Would Be, Being The Best, Ifs

  "LiLo to lose clothes for new flick" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. April 11, 2008.

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• Is a gay play a play that has sex with other plays?

  Harvey Fierstein

  Sex, Play

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• People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.

  Robert Towne

  Love Is, Thinking, People

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• And for me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people its not, but for me its a choice, and you dont get to define my gayness for me. A certain section of our community is very concerned that it not be seen as a choice, because if its a choice, then we could opt out. I say it doesnt matter if we flew here or we swam here, it matters that we are here and we are one group and let us stop trying to make a litmus test for who is considered gay and who is not.

  Cynthia Nixon

  People, Choices, Community

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• We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hate, Men, America

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• Equality is truly sweet.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Sweet, Gay Rights

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• We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against gay marriage, this year. And in all likelihood, we will have gay marriage in 2004 in Minnesota , if we don't get this amendment on the ballot for November.

  Michele Bachmann

  Years, Law, Judging

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• True Christians are not bigoted and this is actually not a matter of equality, no matter how often it is referred to as equal marriage. Civil partnerships are equal to marriage - they might not have the same name but they are equal.

  Robert Flello

  Christian, Names, Might

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• Our sexuality is fundamental to who we are, surely the crux of this debate is whether or not we accord equal right and respect and esteem to people regardless of their sexuality.

  Sarah Wollaston

  People, Fundamentals, Who We Are

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• This is a Pandora's box, for endless litigation, for division in society setting one group against another, and we must for that reason, for community cohesion, resist this bill.

  Stewart Jackson

  Community, Groups, Division

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• Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders, is take a picture of The Lion King for instance, and a teacher might say, 'Do you know that the music for this movie was written by a gay man?' The message is: I'm better at what I do, because I'm gay.

  Michele Bachmann

  Teacher, Kings, Men

  "10 Of The Craziest Things Michele Bachmann Has Ever Said", thinkprogress.org. June 16, 2011.

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• A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Men, Gay Men, Happens

  "Steve Guttenberg Takes on Rear Ends, Leonard Maltin, And Directing". Interview with Brandon Judell, www.indiewire.com. January 9, 2003.

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• I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

  Portia de Rossi

  Heart, My Heart

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

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• I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and shes gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.

  Laura Innes

  Community, Age, Littles

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• Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.

  Chaz Bono

  Mom, Hurt, Betrayal

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• I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

  Corrine Brown

  Support, Amendments, Gay Marriage

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• It seems to me that the real clue to your sexual orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy sex with him.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Falling In Love, Sex, Real

  Interview with Winston Leyland on 1973. "Conversations with Christopher Isherwood". Book edited by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, p. 106, 2001.

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• I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.

  Coretta Scott King

  Dream, Brother, Kings

  Reuters, March 31, 1998.

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• We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.

  Coretta Scott King

  Religious, Believe, Struggle

  Coretta Scott King's remarks at Opening Plenary Session of the 13th annual "Creating Change" conference of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Atlanta, Georgia, November 9, 2000.

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• In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Biblical, Reality, Religion

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• I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

  Jasmine Guy

  Song, Rights, Support

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• I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.

  Connie Willis

  Marriage, Sex, Colorado

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