Gay Quotes - Page 25

• My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people.

  Sarah Schulman

  Writing, People, Reader

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• Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspiring, Mother, Son

  "“You’re supposed to marry the person you love, Mom”". www.salon.com. March 29, 2005.

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• Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party.

  Vivian Stanshall

  Party, Sausage, Shock

  "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End". Album by Vivian Stanshall, 1978.

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• Man's nature is not a bit the same as wines. He loses flavour as his life declines. We drink the oldest wine that comes our way. Old men get nasty, old wines make us gay.

  Alexis Sanchez

  Wine, Men, Way

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• All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.

  Harvey Milk

  Country, Jobs, Reading

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• The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun.

  Christian Siriano

  Fashion, Fun, Boys

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• The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

  Jesse Jackson

  Quilts, Native American, White

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

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• For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,- Weeps like a tired child who had, Playing with flowers, lost its way.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Children, Flower, Tired

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.86

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• It's better to be a dictator than gay.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Funny, Sarcastic, Humorous

  "Guido Westerwelle, former German foreign minister, dies at 54" by Kate Connolly, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2016.

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• I'm a veteran, and I've earned the right to be heard. I'll lead by example and show that gay players are no different from straight ones. I'm not the loudest person in the room, but I'll speak up when something isn't right. And try to make everyone laugh.

  Jason Collins

  Player, Laughing, Trying

  "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now". www.si.com. April 29, 2013.

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• Some people insist they've never met a gay person. But Three Degrees of Jason Collins dictates that no NBA player can claim that anymore. Pro basketball is a family. And pretty much every family I know has a brother, sister or cousin who's gay. In the brotherhood of the NBA, I just happen to be the one who's out.

  Jason Collins

  Basketball, Cousin, Brother

  "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay. I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, "I'm different." If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand.

  Jason Collins

  Sports, Team, Kids

  "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I still recall the day when I became known not just as Gay Brewer, but 'Gay Brewer, winner of the 1967 Masters.' The reality of the title – the biggest thrill I've had in golf – is something that can never be taken away.

  Gay Brewer

  Taken, Golf, Reality

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• Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Later In Life, Discovering, Happened

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• Being gay has nothing to do with the three gold medals or the three MVPs or the four championships I've won. I'm still the same person. I'm Sheryl.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Mvp, Gold, Three

  "WNBA Star Sheryl Swoopes: I'm Gay", www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2005.

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• As gay young people, we are marginalized. As young people who are HIV-positive and have AIDS, we are totally written off.

  Pedro Zamora

  People, Hiv, Aids

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• If you can't run, and the plays in front of you, you just can't get gay.

  Jim Palmer

  Running, Play, Ifs

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• I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.

  Bob Mould

  Men, Thinking, Who I Am

  Interview with Adrian, www.adequacy.net. May 30, 2007.

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• Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

  Christopher Bram

  Sex, Pills, Penicillin

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• I never had a low self-esteem that would make me gay. At one point, though, the reverse happened. Being homosexual led me to have a loss of self-esteem when I first became aware of society's attitudes about homosexuality.

  Aaron Fricke

  Attitude, Self Esteem, Loss

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• All I've learned in today's Shakespeare class is: Sometimes you have to fall in love with the wrong person just so you can find the right person. A more useful lesson would've been: Sometimes the right person doesn't love you back. Or sometimes the right person is gay. Or sometimes you just aren't the right person.
  Thanks for nothing, Shakespeare.

  Jackson Pearce

  Falling In Love, Love You, Class

  Jackson Pearce (2010). “As You Wish”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

  Quentin Crisp

  Thinking, Done, Proud

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• Everything a gay man does makes a political statement. Everything matters: where you bank, where you shop, where you eat. When you hold your lover’s hand in public

  Josh Lanyon

  Men, Hands, Political

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• When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

  Baroness Orczy

  Sadness, Echoes, Joy

  Baroness Orczy (2012). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.140, Courier Corporation

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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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