Gay Quotes - Page 24

• Gay sexuality inevitably involves brutal physical abusiveness and the unnatural imposition of alien substances into internal organs, orally and anally, that inevitably suppress the immune system and heighten susceptibility to disease.

  Rod Parsley

  Substance, Disease, Aliens

  Rod Parsley (2005). “Silent No More”, p.74, Charisma Media

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• To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.

  Nate Silver

  Kind, Sexually, My Friends

  "Nate Silver: Person of the Year". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.out.com. December 18, 2012.

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• As I've thought about gay marriage, I don't see any reason not to say that [couples] should be able to get married.

  Colin Powell

  Couple, Marriage Equality, Able

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• [Marriage] a bond for life, and whether you're gay or straight, it makes no difference to being married. What marriage stands for is that you love that person... You want to commit yourself to that person forever.

  Cheryl Cole

  Differences, Forever, Marriage Equality

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• One of the loveliest weddings I ever performed was that of a gay couple. To me if you are a good citizen, you pay your taxes, you work, you should have all the rights and responsibilities of everybody else.

  Judy Sheindlin

  Couple, Responsibility, Rights

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• I would not compromise my principles for politics. You're saying, will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having? If it does, so be it. I don't compromise my principles for politics.

  Chris Christie

  Principles, Doe, Compromise

  "Christie: No deal on gay marriage" by Mackenzie Weinger, www.politico.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I've always opposed gay marriage. I believe that we should provide equal rights to people regardless of their sexual orientation but I do not believe that marriage should be between two people of the same gender.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Rights, Two

  Mitt Romney at GOP primary debate at Myrtle Beach Convention Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. January 16, 2012.

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• I saw with so many of the gay couples, they were so devoted to another. I saw so much love. When this hearing was over, I was a changed person in regard to this issue. I felt that I understood what same-sex couples were looking for.

  Wade Kach

  Sex, Couple, Issues

  "Maryland legislators pass gay marriage bill" by Ian Duncan, articles.latimes.com. February 23, 2012.

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• How many more gay people must God create until we realize that he wants them here?

  Kaniela Ing

  People, Marriage Equality, Want

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• Gay and lesbian relationships operate on essentially the same principles as heterosexual relationships

  John M. Gottman

  Principles, Marriage Equality

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• We stand with President Obama - love doesn't have a color, love doesn't care if you're gay or straight. Love doesn't discriminate.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Color, President, Marriage Equality

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• We don't want sympathetic liberals, we want gays to represent gays... I represent the gay street people-the 14-year-old runaway from San Antonio. We have to make up for hundreds of years of persecution. We have to give hope to that poor runaway kid from San Antonio. They go to the bars because churches are hostile. They need hope! They need a piece of the pie!

  Harvey Milk

  Kids, Years, Pie

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• Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Skills, Age

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.222

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• I've heard all the things - 'their marriage is not real,' 'he's gay,' 'she's gay,' 'they swing'. But at the end of the day, people have to believe what they have to believe. ... But I'll tell you what, it's too hard to be in a pretend marriage. Life's too short for that one.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Real, Believe, Swings

  "Kate Gosselin defends spanking her kids" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. June 18, 2009.

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• Gay marriage and who should be on a football team have nothing to do with each other.

  Tony Dungy

  Football, Team, Should

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• I think the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight... It's not a gay wedding, it's just a wedding... It's not a gay marriage, it's just a marriage.

  Pink

  Thinking, Gay Marriage, Being Gay

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• You don't have to be gay to be a supporter- you just have to be a human.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Humans, Supporter

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• How do you explain to someone who thinks you're the devil incarnate, that you're really not?

  John Corvino

  Thinking, Devil

  John Corvino (2013). “What's Wrong with Homosexuality?”, p.4, Oxford University Press

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• I'm so sick of the words 'gay' and 'lesbian'. They're just people... One day I want my son to come home from school and be like, 'I found this guy, and I love him.' And I'm gonna be like, 'Yes, you do, and that's ok.'

  Josh Hutcherson

  Home, School, Son

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• I'm not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing.

  George Clooney

  Being Gay, Seems, Bad Things

  "George Clooney engaged? Retiring the playboy act is his best move in years" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2014.

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• Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to anyone who wanted to dance.

  Jamake Highwater

  Dance, Doors, Europe

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.56, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In the fifth season [of Star Trek: The Next Generation] viewers will see more of shipboard life [including] gay crew members in day-to-day circumstances.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Generations, Next

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• It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples.

  Gene Robinson

  Couple, Rights, Comfort

  "First openly gay bishop Gene Robinson announces divorce from husband" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2014.

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• I don't think I'm gay. I don't think I'm straight. I think I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Parades

  "Cho's Getting What She Wants / There's life after `All-American Girl'" by Liz Smith, www.sfgate.com. September 2, 1999.

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• I refer to myself as gay, but I’m married to a man.

  Margaret Cho

  Men, Married

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