Gay People Quotes - Page 3

• The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all been encouraged by society to think of themselves as oddities or mutants. I hope that's why X-Men chimes with them - it's certainly why I was attracted to the idea in the first place.

  Ian Mckellen

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.

  Chris Colfer

  Real, Gay, People

  "*Glee'*s Chris Colfer Wants to Show You His Ass". Interview with Brett Berk, www.vanityfair.com. April 27, 2010.

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• We as gay people get to choose our family and the people we're around. I am your family. We are a family here.

  RuPaul

  Gay, People, Our Family

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• Gay people do not fight for freedom to live in a lavender bubble, but in a more just society.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Fighting, Gay, People

  Urvashi Vaid (2015). “Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation”, p.93, Anchor

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• It's not like I hate gay people.

  Ali Liebegott

  Hate, Gay, People

  Ali Liebegott (2007). “The IHOP Papers”, p.2, Carroll & Graf

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• I think that gay people should have the right to get married by Elvis like everybody else.

  Margaret Cho

  Gay, Thinking, Should Have

  "Margaret Cho: CHO Revolution". Video, June 12, 2004.

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• Miss Piggy and Chicken Little may rest easy, but gay people in Florida and California can no longer get married.

  Samantha Ronson

  Gay, Florida, California

  "Samantha Ronson: Defeat of Gay Measures 'Frightening'" by Mike Fleeman, people.com. November 6, 2008.

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• There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to his own vision, not to be some sort of common denominator or public relations man to all gay people.

  Edmund White

  Gay, Men, People

  Publishers Weekly, September 24, 1982.

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• Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.

  Larry Kramer

  Hate, Dirty, Mean

  "AIDS is a plague allowed to happen" By Larry Kramer, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2011.

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• It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

  Busy Philipps

  California, Issues, Rights

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

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• I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.

  Bryan Batt

  Lonely, Gay, People

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• I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

  B. D. Wong

  Gay, Thinking, People

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• Legalizing gay marriage is not about making it possible for gay people to become couples. It's about giving the Left the power to force anti-religious values on our children. Once they legalize gay marriage, it will be the bludgeon they use to make sure that it becomes illegal to teach traditional values in the schools.

  Orson Scott Card

  Religious, Children, Couple

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• We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who are adults can't really lay their hands on us unless they want to be gay-bashers and go to jail. They abuse us from afar and in the abstract, they abuse us with checkbooks and ballots, but their kids go to school on Monday morning. And there's a gay kid. And they feel they have license to beat that gay kid up in a way that I don't think they did when I was in school. I think it's gotten worse.

  Dan Savage

  Monday, Morning, War

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag of lesbian. I'm not bragging, I'm not preaching, but I don't deny it . I had to face society, the Church, which says damn gay people ... it's absurd. How do you judge someone who has been born that way. I did not study to be a lesbian. Neither was it taught to me. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world. I've never slept with a man. Never. I'm pure, I don't have to be ashamed ... My Gods made me so.

  Chavela Vargas

  Eye, Fighting, Pride

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• I'm not getting married until gay people can get married. Because I'm gay.

  Harris Wittels

  Gay, People, Married

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• I posed for a gay magazine, which caused much comment. But it doesn't bother me. Gay people are fighting the same kind of stereotyping that bodybuilders are: People have certain misconceptions about them just as they do about us.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Fighting, Gay, People

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

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• I feel we need to stop worrying about pro-gay movements and start worrying about fundamentalist movements. It's not just about how gay people are treated - it's about how people are treated in general.

  Jason Sellards

  Gay, Worry, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I think that gay people in some ways end up forming a very different sense of humour to straight people. We all go through similar things and it's a way of dealing with it.

  Jason Sellards

  Gay, Thinking, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, “It's not like I hate gay people.”

  Ali Liebegott

  Hate, Gay, People

  Ali Liebegott (2007). “The IHOP Papers”, p.2, Carroll & Graf

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• As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.

  RuPaul

  Queens, Laughter, Real

  "T Lo Interviews The One and Only RuPaul". tomandlorenzo.com. March 03, 2009.

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• Getting a gay fan base is slow. I think if I were able to reach more gay people they would love it. I can't get the songs in their ears. I love my gay family. I just wish I could reach more of them. I'm in this car going from club to club but they're not gay clubs.

  Mary Gauthier

  Song, Gay, Thinking

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• Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. Some people are offended by mixed marriage, gay people, atheism. So what? F*** 'em.

  Ricky Gervais

  Mean, Gay, People

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Oct 12, 2013

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• Most gay bashers will be wearing what gay people had on four years earlier - only in polyester with a Penney's label.

  Paul Rudnick

  Gay, Years, People

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• I'm certainly not going to tell other people what they should do with their own personal lives. I think it's certainly easier for a director to be out. The public is not going to see a movie because the director is gay or straight. It's maybe a little harder for an actor or actress because of, you know, the love roles and stuff. But gay people have been impersonating heteros in the movies for years. So, hopefully, that is becoming less of an issue. I think it would have been really great if a gay person had played a gay person. That's brave!

  John Waters

  Gay, Thinking, Years

  "INTERVIEW : He Really Can't Help Himself : Shockingly eccentric writer-director John Waters offers yet another look at the gruesome with his new film, 'Serial Mom.' It stacks up nicely against his cult faves 'Pink Flamingos' and 'Mondo Trasho'". Interview with James Grant, articles.latimes.com. April 10, 1994.

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