Being Gay Quotes

• I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

  Jai Rodriguez

  Gay, Thinking, Who I Am

  "THE LEADING MEN: Angel of Music". Interview with Wayman Wong, www.playbill.com. August 2, 2004.

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• I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies

  Tommy Kirk

  Apology, Gay, Ashamed

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• The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.

  Mia Kirshner

  Character, Gay, Littles

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• There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.

  Johnny Vegas

  Gay, Fans, Stuff

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• My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

  Jai Rodriguez

  Mother, Gay, Sentences

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

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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• Gay people are born into, and belong to, every society in the world. They are all ages, all races, all faiths. They are doctors and teachers, farmers and bankers, soldiers and athletes. And whether we know it or whether we acknowledge it, they are our family, our friends, and our neighbors. Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.

  Hillary Clinton

  Teacher, Athlete, Gay

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Homosexuality is God's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.

  Samuel Austin Allibone

  Children, Gay, Lgbt Pride

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• At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.

  George Clooney

  School, Gay, Issues

  "George Clooney Slams Prop 8". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2008.

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• I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

  Paul Newman

  Inspiring, Kids, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• The only people are those who don't love anybody.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, People

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• In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Gay, Men, Heterosexuality Is

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  Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

  James A. Baldwin

  Falling In Love, Gay, Boys

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• Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea.

  Derek Jarman

  Sea, Lgbt Pride, Lgbt Community

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• [Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

  James Howe

  Gay, Rights, Lgbt Pride

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• Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Vices, Degradation, Illness

  Letter to an American mother, 9 Apr. 1935

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• I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.

  Herb Ritts

  Gay, Thinking, Names

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• My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it.

  Amanda Bearse

  Mother, Gay, Lgbt

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• There's nothing wrong with being fired.

  Ted Turner

  Lonely, Strong Women, Loneliness

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• Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.

  Derek Jarman

  Sex, Gay, Rights

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.

  Charlie Pierce

  Sarcastic, Mother, Gay

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• When all Americans are treated as equal we are all more free.

  Barack Obama

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, Marriage Equality

  Barack Obama's remarks on the Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality at the White House Rose Garden in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2015.

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• I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

  Mark Haddon

  Running, Writing, Gay

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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