Gay And Straight Quotes

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  What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

  Tennessee Williams

  Heart, Gay, Lgbt Community

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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  I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

  Eminem

  Badass, Nice, Gay

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• My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take.

  Nick Jonas

  Love, Gay, Age

  "The A-List Interview: Nick Jonas". Interview with Brandon Voss, www.advocate.com. January 18, 2012.

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• The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Romantic, Gay, Successful

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• We are a gentle angry people
  We are a land of many colors
  We are gay and straight together
  We are a peaceful loving people
  And we are singing, singing for our lives.

  Holly Near

  Gay, Color, Land

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• The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a difficult life brings you to the core of yourself, where you learn what justice is and how it has to be fought for.

  Paul Monette

  Struggle, Gay, Justice

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• In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Order, Political

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.32, Vintage

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• I think people in the gay and straight worlds can get a sense of what it means to be an artist.

  Jill Eikenberry

  Mean, Gay, Thinking

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I've been to many gay and straight clubs and I have fun in every one of them. It's always great to hear my music played and to be there with everyone.

  Harry Wayne Casey

  Fun, Gay, Clubs

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• The positive nature of some child-adult sexual relationships is not confined to non-Western cultures. Several of my friends - gay and straight, male and female - had sex with adults from the ages of nine to 13. None feel they were abused. All say it was their conscious choice and gave them great joy.

  Peter Tatchell

  Sex, Children, Gay

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• I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and I think they’re scum—are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, whatever their color…I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  "2008 Black Homophobia". slog.thestranger.com. November 5, 2008.

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• Many in the trans community are fed up with L.G.B.T. organizations that continue to erase trans identity or just give lip service to trans issues. We need our cisgender allies - gay and straight - to treat transgender lives as if they matter, and trans people need multiple seats at the tables in the organizations that say they're interested in L.G.B.T. equality; this absence has been painful since Stonewall.

  Laverne Cox

  Gay, Organization, Issues

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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 have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.

  Edie Falco

  Kids, Gay, Men

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• I thinking gay and straight people use the same putters, it's not a matter of putters but a matter of hole selection.

  Jon Stewart

  Gay, Thinking, People

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