Gay Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers].

  LZ Granderson

  Father, Rights, Special

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• The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay. The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young.

  George Takei

  Issues, Political, Feelings

  Star Trek's 'Sulu' Comes Out of Closet, www.foxnews.com. October 28, 2005.

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• It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.

  Evan Davis

  Thinking, Views, Annoying

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview With Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• Yeah, the gay pride movement is precious and all, but I think it's about time we asked ourselves what gay people really have to offer to society.

  Zach Braff

  Pride, Thinking, People

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• Gay men should not adopt the sophomoric model of heterosexual dating; gay men should always have sex first.

  John Rechy

  Sex, Men, Dating

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• I feel that most gay men are so much more in touch with a certain kind of sensitivity that heterosexual men aren't allowed to be in touch with, their feminine side. To me they're whole human beings, more so than most of the straight men that I know.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Men, Sides, Kind

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• I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television.

  James Dobson

  Rose, People, Matter

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• It never occurred to me that I needed to say that I was gay. I simply am. Anyone who knows me or who's been around me ten minutes knows it too.

  Michael Jeter

  Minutes, Needed, Know Me

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• Every religion you are, every ethnicity you are, every sex you are, if you're gay or straight. You should be considered as equal as anybody else. That's super-simple, but apparently we have to still march for it.

  Bianca Balti

  Sex, Simple, Ethnicity

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• We've made houses for hatred. It's time we made a place where people's souls may be seen and made safe.

  Jewel

  People, House, Hatred

  "Song: Innocence Maintained". 1998.

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• It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Lgbt, Injustice

  Letter to an American mother, 9 Apr. 1935

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  If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning.

  Harvey Milk

  Being Yourself, Expression, Important

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.214, Univ of California Press

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• We shouldn't just allow gay marriage. We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could claim to love each other and not want to sanctify their love with marriage and fidelity.

  David Brooks

  Two, People, Lgbt

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• Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by many to divide blacks and the gay community with the argument that the latter are seeking some imaginary special rights at the expense of blacks.

  Julian Bond

  Rights, America, Community

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• There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Queens, Things In Life, Choices

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• You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.

  Merle Miller

  Rights, Lgbt, Demand

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• How dare you make my life a felony.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Lgbt, Dare, Felony

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• The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.

  John F. Kennedy

  Rights, Today, Torches

  Inaugural address, 20 Jan. 1961, in Vital Speeches 1 Feb. 1961, p. 226

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• When I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?

  Thomas Jane

  Mean, Kids, Car

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• I wanted to show America a different kind of man. If there was someone like me when I was growing up, my whole life would have been different.

  Chaz Bono

  Growing Up, Men, America

  “'Dancing With the Stars' Chaz Bono Reveals Who He's Voting for Now” by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 26, 2011.

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• In the gay world, [relationships] will always be open. There is no curbing the gay man.

  Patti Stanger

  Men, World, Gay Men

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• Well, you show me the science [that being gay is not a choice] and I'll be persuaded.

  Herman Cain

  Choices, Show Me, Shows

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• Is it adultery if I’m committing it at one end of a guy and he’s committing it at the other end of that same guy?

  Dan Savage

  Guy, Adultery, Ends

  "Dan Savage Makes Stephen Colbert Break Character" by Brett Michael Dykes, uproxx.com. July 13, 2011.

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• OMG! Is this true? [Marcus Bachmann] has a Christian clinic where he de-programs gay boys & girls! I'm gonna strangle him with my Boa!

  Cher

  Girl, Christian, Boys

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