Gay Quotes - Page 3

• Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

  Bette Davis

  Liberation, Gay Liberation

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

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• Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings.

  Judy Grahn

  Culture, Sexuality, Gay Culture

  Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”

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• Having a traditional view of marriage should not be seen as discriminatory, unfortunately the bill has promoted this notion. It has not created tolerance and has highlighted division.

  Jim Dobbin

  Views, Tolerance, Division

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• An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.

  Robbie Williams

  Stars, Movement, Awful

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• People sometimes think I'm gay because I once played a gay in a movie. It's funny. Audiences don't think you're a murderer if you play a murderer, but they do think you're gay if you play a gay.

  Perry King

  Thinking, Play, People

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• The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill.... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick.

  Ronald Goldman

  Pride, Sick, Diagnosis

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• For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in Albany, Ga. and St. Augustine, Fla., and many other campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement. Many of these courageous men and women were fighting for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, and I salute their contributions.

  Coretta Scott King

  Fighting, Men, Rights

  Chicago Tribune, April 01, 1998.

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• My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Nice, Rights, Feelings

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• Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

  Zach Braff

  Men, Eleven, Bunch

  "See 'The Broken Hearts Club' with someone special" by Paul Clinton, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2000.

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  What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

  Tennessee Williams

  Heart, Lgbt Community, Lgbt Pride

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.

  Troy Perry

  Lgbt Pride, Shepherds, Lord

  "Lord Is My Shepherd and He Knows I'm Gay". Book by Troy Perry, 1972.

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• Who am I to judge a gay person?

  Pope Francis

  Judging, Persons

  "The Pope is a Regrettable Lesbian Crush Object" by Lissa Harris, www.esquire.com. October 22, 2013.

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• Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

  James A. Baldwin

  Falling In Love, Boys, Journey

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• I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

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• Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

  Lance Loud

  Believe, Gauges, Culture

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• I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.

  Lynda Barry

  Men, Lucky, Likes

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• In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Heterosexuality Is, Lgbt Pride

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• I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

  Dana Carvey

  Laughing, Als, Make Me Laugh

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• Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.

  David Letterman

  Change, Yesterday, Paris

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• No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

  Robert Plant

  Thinking, Judging, Knows

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• I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.

  Portia de Rossi

  Continuing On, Rich Life, Careers

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

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• The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

  Julian Clary

  Affection, Entertainers

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• Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.

  Rod Parsley

  Sex, Disease, Breeding

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• I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.

  Thom Gunn

  Writing, Interesting, Lasts

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• No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.

  David Copperfield

  Hair, Self, Choices

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