Gay Life Quotes

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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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• If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not.

  Grace Slick

  Gay, Annoyed, Would Be

  "An Explosive Personality" by Liz Lufkin, www.sfgate.com. September 6, 1998.

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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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• While there's life, there is hope.

  Stephen Hawking

  Hope, Latin, Life Is Short

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• My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Sex, Gay

  "Somerset Maugham". Book by Ted Morgan, 1980.

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• Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

  Ernest Gaines

  Motivational, Respect, Integrity

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• While there's life, there's hope.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Hope, Latin

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1880). “The Life and Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Being a New Translation of the Letters Included in Mr. Watsons's Selection”

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• In light of Jamey [Rodemeyer]'s death -- it became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it -- is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.

  Zachary Quinto

  Lying, Gay, Light

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• Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.

  Ira Sachs

  Gay, Cinema, Stories

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• It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Suicide, Gay, Commit

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.58, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• I want my gay life to not wind up on the streets-on Second Avenue. But at the same time, I don't care if it does.

  Jack Pierson

  Gay, Wind, Doe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires and try to ask myself how these feelings can be made into concrete images... Are they really abnormal, or are they trying to tell us something we have repressed about ourselves, something we don't want to see, something about the darker side of the human condition itself?

  Arthur Tress

  Dream, Loneliness, Gay

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• Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.

  Larry Kramer

  Pride, Gay, Thinking

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• The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, the "queers" of homosexuality.In fact, they are classic scapegoats. Our old fears about our sissiness, still with us though masked by the new macho fascism, are now located, isolated, quarantined through our persecution of the transvestite.

  Edmund White

  Gay, Facts, Classic

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.51, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is our own creation, and much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatality; it's a possibility for creative life. It's not enough to affirm that we are gay but we must also create a gay life.

  Michel Foucault

  Sex, Gay, Our World

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• For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don't think it is. It's just a comedy-drama about people who live in the United States. It's a slice-of-life. I play a character-that's it. But I was well aware of the gay lifestyle before the show. I've been hit on in a really strong way by gay men who've tried to convert me, and a lot of my heroes are gay. William Burroughs, Lou Reed. Well, I guess Lou Reed is bi. The point is, it's 2002, gay life is no longer that shocking.

  Gale Harold

  Strong, Drama, Hero

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• One of the definitive works on gay life. Through this collective testimony we may come to understand what it is to be 'the other'; in short, the other part of ourselves.

  Studs Terkel

  Gay, May, Testimony

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• Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Honesty, Gay, Life Is

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