Gay Quotes - Page 17

• Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.

  Larry Kramer

  Telling The Truth, Libel, Slander

  Larry Kramer (1990). “Reports from the Holocaust: Making of an AIDS Activist”

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• There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.

  Audre Lorde

  Men, Silence, Valleys

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• When I see young men and old women come out of the closet and face being called faggots and dykes and pariahs and betrayers of the family dream, then I am honored to be gay because I belong to a people who are proud.

  Arnie Kantrowitz

  Dream, Men, People

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• Gay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do.

  Judy Grahn

  Thinking, Civilization, People

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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

  Years, People, Four

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• Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start.

  Jason Collins

  Lgbt Community, May, Prejudice

  "Jason Collins’ Courage in Coming Out" by Abbe Land, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2013.

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• When people have asked me in the past if I'm gay, I've said "I'm not gay, but I'm festive."

  Sharon Gless

  Past, People, Lgbt

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• I used to look at gay men and think, 'I'm not like that, I don't want to be like that, that's not me.'

  Ricky Martin

  Men, Thinking, Looks

  "Ricky Martin: I bullied gay people". www.news.com.au. August 27, 2013.

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• It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: 'Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport. These guys would go crazy.' First of all, quit telling me what I think. I'd rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can't play.

  Charles Barkley

  Sports, Crazy, Team

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• I've never been turned down for a role because I'm gay. I'm a character actor, and that's probably why. I don't find Hollywood, in my own experience, to be homophobic. ... But I do think the straight folks will continue to play the straight roles.

  Jane Lynch

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Jane Lynch: Studios Won’t Cast Gay Leading Actors". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment.

  Brad Pitt

  Hurt, Growing Up, Believe

  "Brad Pitt on Gay Marriage, Smoking Pot and 'Real Love'". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. August 5, 2009.

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• I have love in my life, a soul mate u2014u00a0absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don't get married, I replied, 'Maybe we'll get married when it's legal for everyone else.' I stand by that, although I took a lot of flak for saying it u2014u00a0hate mail from religious groups. I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment.

  Brad Pitt

  Religious, Hurt, Growing Up

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• With this look, who's going to think I'm gay? I don't lend myself to that type of confusion. Do I look like a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them?

  Mel Gibson

  Moving, Thinking, Confusion

  El Pais (Spain) interview (1991), as quoted in "The Passion of the Gibson" by Andy Ostroy, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2010.

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• I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet.  They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

  Alan Cumming

  Lying, People, Actors

  "Alan Cumming: gay actors should be out and proud" by Brian Braiker, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I’ve had many, you know, happy ending sleepovers’in my early youth — my period of exploration. I think that’s essential. Anyone who hasn’t had a gay moment is probably trying to avoid some confrontation with a reality in their life.

  Ezra Miller

  Reality, Thinking, Trying

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• Roman’s a little gay boy who lives in me. And every time I talk he sort of just appears and I tell him, ‘Roman, you know, stop it, you’ve gone mad, I tell you, mad.’ He’s an outlet to say what I need to say but sometimes don’t want to.

  Nicki Minaj

  Boys, Mad, Gone

  "Nicki Minaj: 'I am doing everything the boys can - plus more...'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel-selling-ring-tones act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride.

  David Cross

  Pride, Redneck, America

  "David Cross returns to stand-up to make America great again". Interview with Dustin Waters, www.charlestoncitypaper.com. February 24, 2016.

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• Gay men are perfect men for girls who are tough. They're not threatened by strong women, and they're usually very in touch with their feelings and pay attention to details. I've always had an affinity with gay men.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, Strong Women, Perfect

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• I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body!

  Madonna Ciccone

  Men, Body, Trapped

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

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• But you are also the biggest threat of all ...You are a gay person I like. Your threat is that you make being gay seem non-threatening. It's almost as if your happiness does not take mine away.

  Stephen Colbert

  I Like You, Doe, Threatening

  "Ice cream? Immigration? 12 ways Colbert kept truthiness alive" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. April 10, 2014.

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• In the beginning, a monkey evolutioned gay marriage.

  Stephen Colbert

  Gay Marriage, Monkeys

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• I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Thinking, America, Parent

  "Larry King Live" with Bob Costas, edition.cnn.com. November 17, 2005.

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• Part of the reason why I've never said that I was gay until now was because I didn't want that adjective assigned to my name for all of eternity. You know, gay Rosie O'Donnell.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Names, Adjectives, Want

  "Rosie O'Donnell: Being a Gay Mom". abcnews.go.com. March 14.

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• I believe that if you are bringing a child into the world, you should be willing to accept them in any reality. Whether they are Black, White, Asian, have four fingers, are disabled, gay….that the only wish should be for a happy and healthy baby.

  Dianna Agron

  Baby, Children, Believe

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• If I was gay, there’d be no closet. You’d never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve! Because I know, with all certainty in my mind, there’s nothing wrong with being gay and you know it! And there’s nothing wrong with being into chicks if you’re a girl. And there’s nothing wrong with being into all of it…. How awesome would it be to be bisexual? To just walk into a room and go ‘MMMM, ALRIGHT!!!!’

  Henry Rollins

  Girl, Bisexual, Mind

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