Gay Quotes - Page 27

• Nor did Americans believe that Republicans had been waging war on minorities, women, or gays - especially given that Republicans have held the House only since 2011 and have been out of power in the Senate and presidency since 2009.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  War, Believe, House

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• The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe - that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

  H. L. Mencken

  Horse, Cat, Intelligent

  "Clinical Notes". The American Mercury (January 1924), p. 75; later quoted in H. L. Mencken "Prejudices: Fourth Series", 1924.

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• We have seen a man dragged to death in Texas simply because he was black. A young man murdered in Wyoming simply because he was gay. In the last year alone, we've seen the shootings of African Americans, Asian Americans, and Jewish children simply because of who they were. This is not the American way. We must draw the line. Without delay, we must pass the Hate Crimes Prevention Act and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. And we should reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Hate, Men

  "The full speech: part two", www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2000.

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• A dreamcatcher works, if your dream is to be gay.

  Demetri Martin

  Inspirational, Funny, Dream

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• Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Mind, Delight, Serious

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• Herman Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party. Conservative movement and tea party movement... People like Karl Rove liked to keep the racism very covert. And so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity say you can say ‘Look, this is not a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. Look we have a black man!'” Garofalo hypothesized. “Look he’s polling well and won a straw poll!

  Janeane Garofalo

  Stupid, Party, Opportunity

  "Janeane Garofalo To Keith Olbermann: ‘Herman Cain Hides The Racist Elements Of The Republican Party’" by James Crugnale, www.mediaite.com. September 29, 2011.

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• I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.

  Kate Clinton

  Religious, Morning, Sunday

  FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from May 07, 2015

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• We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

  Eartha Kitt

  Color, White, Catholic

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• Glee is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.

  Jack Antonoff

  Loud Voices, People, Giving

  "fun. Interview with Jack Antonoff". Interview with Courtney Kenefick, www.seventeen.com. March 6, 2012.

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• Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.

  Samuel Rogers

  May, Madness, Melancholy

  'To - , 1814'

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• Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.

  Martina Navratilova

  Movement, Recycling, Environment

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• Ah, how lucky are the lieutenants, the six-foot Junkers, and all the rest of the Don Juan clan!... The bookworm, be he ever so decent and clever, is really only pleasing to himself and a small handful of others. The world passes him by and beckons to life and beauty ... to gay and handsome creatures to whom the hearts of their fellow men continue to turn.

  Theodor Fontane

  Clever, Heart, Men

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• What is it with conservatives? Seriously, I'm not trying to be partisan but it seems like if they're anti-illegal alien, they have illegal aliens working for them. If they're anti-gay, they turn out to be gay. If they're super Christian, they're a witch.

  Bill Maher

  Christian, Trying, Aliens

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• Being gay is a natural normal beautiful variation on being human. Period. End of subject. Therefore, any argument which says differently is an immoral supremacist one. Call it out as such. ... Be outraged, offended, angry and intolerant of any discussion or any one who describes you as unequal, undeserving or unnatural for being just as you are.

  Larry Kramer

  Beautiful, Normal, Variation

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• No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I'm on the right track baby I was born to survive.

  Lady Gaga

  Baby, Track, Matter

  Song: Born This Way

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• Marriage can be a religious thing. It can also be a secular thing. And guess what? Not everyone in the world is of the same religion. Preventing gay people from getting married is not an expression of religious freedom. It's an expression of religious oppression.

  Hank Green

  Religious, Expression, People

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• New rule: Tulips aren't flowers. They're some kind of gay onion.

  Bill Maher

  Flower, Onions, Kind

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• I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.

  Matt Lucas

  Couple, Nice, Party

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• Gay marriage is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, thirty years. I AM NOT UNDERSTATING THAT.

  Michele Bachmann

  Impact, Years, Issues

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• Yes, gay marriage is about symbolically blessing a relationship, but the larger issue is about transmitting a fundamental message about equality. Gay people should have equality in law everywhere.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Blessing, Should Have, Law

  "Daniel Radcliffe says gay marriage is about 'equality'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. February 09, 2012.

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• Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and gay issue, because I and thousands of other Black women are part of the lesbian community. Any attack against lesbians and gays is a Black issue, because thousands of lesbians and gay men are Black. There is no hierarchy of oppression.

  Audre Lorde

  Men, Issues, People

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• Like no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to empathize with the plight of our fellow man. While most would agree that the AIDS orphan or the transfusion victim or the wronged wife contracted the disease through no fault of their own, it has too often been easy for some to point to the unfaithful husband or the promiscuous youth or the gay man and say This is your fault. You have sinned. I don't think that's a satisfactory response. My faith reminds me that we all are sinners.

  Barack Obama

  Husband, Fighting, Men

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that's a really great thing. We're kind of getting past the fact that they're the punchline or that they're the novelty.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Cheer, Character, Past

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• I hear the word 'tolerance'-tha t some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with that word. I am gay, and I am not seeking to be 'tolerated'. One tolerates a toothache, rush-hour traffic, an annoying neighbor with a cluttered yard. I am not a negative to be tolerated.

  Chely Wright

  People, Tolerance, Trying

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• If you're not sure how you feel about same-sex marriage, go and meet some of the families and see what they're looking for. Once you take it out of the caricature of what gay people are and what gay marriage is, and put it in the reality of family and what these folks are fighting for, it's really amazing.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Sex, Fighting, Reality

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