Gay People Quotes - Page 9

• Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job.

  Coretta Scott King

  Jobs, Gay, Rights

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• Why shouldn't gay people be allowed to be able to marry? Those against gay marriages say marriage should only be between a man and a woman. God, I of all people know that doesn't always work!

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Gay, Men, People

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• President Bush said he was 'troubled' by gay people getting married in San Francisco. He said on important issues like this the people should make the decision, not judges. Unless of course we're choosing a president, then he prefers judges.

  Jay Leno

  Gay, San Francisco, Issues

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• Gay people who want to marry have no desire to redefine marriage in any way. When women got the right to vote, it did not redefine voting.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Gay, People, Voting

  "Our Coverage of New York Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage" by Samantha Henig, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2011.

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• They always try to make it like jocks discriminate against gay people. I've been a big proponent of gay marriage for a long time, because as a black person, I can't be in for any form of discrimination at all.

  Charles Barkley

  Gay, Long, People

  "Charles Barkley: I Had Gay Teammates". www.espn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

  Elton John

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  "Elton John: Where Prop 8 went wrong". usatoday30.usatoday.com. November 12, 2008.

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• I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.'

  Graham Norton

  Growing Up, Gay, People

  "The name's Norton. Graham Norton" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.

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• The mayor of Sochi is now saying that there are no gay people in Sochi. So the only thing that is flaming over there now is the Olympic torch.

  David Letterman

  Leadership, Gay, Class

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• I think a lot of gay people who are not dealing with their homosexuality get into right- wing politics.

  Armistead Maupin

  Gay, Thinking, Wings

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• We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being [ostracised] because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover.

  Elton John

  Book, Gay, Thinking

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• I don't care what straight people do, I don't care what gay people do. I don't care what nobody do. That's they business. I just care about what I do. You know what I'm saying?

  ASAP Rocky

  Gay, People, Care

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• I grew up singing and dancing, so people have been calling me gay since fifth grade. I've heard everything you could possibly hear about it. But I do love gay people, so I'm not going to act like I was insulted or angry about it.

  Matthew Morrison

  Gay, People, Dancing

  Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. December 18, 2009.

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• I'm not against gay people... I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. What I'm critical off are actions that violate the word of God.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Sex, Gay, Law

  "Manny Pacquiao Banned From Hollywood Mall Over Gay Marriage Comments" by Myles Collier, www.christianpost.com. May 16, 2012.

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• We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people. The same way we have learned to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation.

  Dan Savage

  Bible, Learning, Gay

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• At its heart, the quest that trans people are on is to have the same thing that straight — and gay — people have: the ability to wake up in the morning and be ourselves, without permission, without apology. Our lives should not be defined by wigs, or surgery, or which bathroom we use. Our lives should be defined by our identities, and the truth we bear in our hearts.

  Jennifer Finney Boylan

  Morning, Heart, Apology

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• Gay people exist. There's nothing we can do in public policy that makes more of us exist, or less of us exist. And you guys have been arguing for a generation that public policy ought to essentially demean gay people as a way of expressing disapproval of the fact that we exist, but you don't make any less of us exist. You just are arguing in favor of more discrimination, and more discrimination doesn't make straight people's lives any better.

  Rachel Maddow

  Gay, People, Guy

  "Rachel Maddow Confronts Jim DeMint, Ralph Reed Over Gay Marriage On ‘Meet The Press’ ", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2013.

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• I think honestly, SOME people who think they’re gay, they’re confused. People can misconstrue closeness for love. People can feel connected, they bond. I’m not saying all [gay people are confused]. Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that’s them.

  Stevie Wonder

  Sex, Confused, Gay

  "Stevie Wonder: 'I never thought of being blind and black as a disadvantage'". www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2012.

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• The gay people know where I'm at. Straight people may not know where I'm at, but they find it kind of interesting when they show up and see what is sitting around them.

  Lou Reed

  Gay, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each other. In the wake of AIDS, gay people felt like they had to organize, become much more active and visible. AIDS fostered a gay rights movement that made gay people more powerful and more vulnerable at the same time.

  Dale Peck

  Powerful, Gay, Rights

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else? What it comes down to, ultimately, is love. How can anything bad come out of love? The bad stuff comes out of mistrust, misunderstanding and, God knows, from hate and from ignorance.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hate, Ignorance, Gay

  "Elizabeth Taylor remembered for kindness, activism" by Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. March 23, 2011.

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• Gay people getting married? Next, they'll be allowed to vote and pay taxes.

  Kenneth Cole

  Gay, People, Pay

  "How I Met James Brown" by Leon Friedman, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2014.

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• And now gay people want to get married... Haven't they suffered enough?

  George Carlin

  Gay, People, Want

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• Reverend Ted Haggard's followers still think he's not gay. I'm not kidding. In their world, there are no gay people. There are just straight people who are sinning. They don't want to do it, but the Devil makes them! He targets people like Reverend Ted. That's how it happened. The Devil got hold of Reverend Ted, and Ted said, 'Get thee behind me, Satan! And put it in, gently'.

  Bill Maher

  Gay, Thinking, People

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• Definitely 99% of the hate I get is from other gay people.

  Steve Grand

  Hate, Gay, People

  Source: www.newnownext.com

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• We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the AIDS epidemic came along that so many would die, because it was gay people dying. And what emerged was a grassroots movement that developed, and succeeded in getting things done. The pinpointing of that movement evolved into the changes that we have today.

  Todd Haynes

  Baby, Gay, Aids Epidemic

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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