Gay People Quotes

• I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

  Natalie Portman

  Divorce, Gay, People

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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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• 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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• Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.

  Bill Maher

  Kids, Gay, Law

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.158, Rodale

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• Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

  Jean O'Leary

  Lying, Gay, Essence

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• Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"

  Jon Stewart

  Inspirational, Gay, Army

  "You Homophobes Just Jealous Gay Weddings will be Better" by Francesca Biller, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2009.

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• From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

  Howard Dean

  Religious, Gay, Views

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• I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are. That's where us gay people come from - you heterosexuals.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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

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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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• Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jesus, Teaching, Gay

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• All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Gay, People

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.

  Rachel Maddow

  Responsibility, Gay, Ifs And

  "Rachel Maddow: Closeted Gay Anchors ‘Have A Responsibility To Come Out’", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2011.

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• We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.

  Kate Clinton

  Pride, Gay, People

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• I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people.

  Richard Chamberlain

  Sorry, Mean, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

  Richard Pryor

  Gay, People, Black

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• If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.

  Jason Bateman

  Gay, Italian, People

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• Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!

  Ben Affleck

  Gay, People, Gay Pride

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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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• Straight Americans need... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.

  Bruce Bawer

  Heart, Gay, Years

  "If Davide Geffen or Elton John is rich, isn't it a sigh of God's favor?". The Advocate Magazine, April 28, 1998.

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• If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.

  Anita Bryant

  Sleep, Gay, Rights

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

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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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• Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.

  Little Richard

  Gay, Thoughtful, People

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• 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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• If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.

  Portia de Rossi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Struggle

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

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• Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Gay

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