Gay Quotes - Page 30

• If you can take something as ultimately frivolous [as a comic book] in the cosmic scale of things in the universe and what's important - people being born and dying and everything else that's gonna happen today - if one gay kid in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, reads an X-Men comic and feels for a second like maybe they're not entirely alone in the world - that's amazing. I'll take it. Whatever size victory that is, I will take.

  Matt Fraction

  Book, Kids, Men

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• Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and beautiful life, above and below the waters, ... of lofty precipices, richly draped, even the sternest fronts made to smile and be glad, as delights the gay tropics, and alive with waterfalls, gliding, leaping, or plunging, on their way down from the giddy heights, and, as they go, playing out and in amid the foliage...

  James Dwight Dana

  Beautiful, Nature, Memories

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• In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape.

  Beatrix Campbell

  Cycling, Identity Politics, Intimate Relationships

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• If you hate gay marriage, then don't marry a gay person.

  Jim Jefferies

  Hate, Religion, Persons

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• We need conservatives that can accept gays, and then we need hippies that can shave and bathe.

  Patton Oswalt

  Hippie, Needs, Accepting

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• Sometimes we are outright rude when we interact with people. We meet a gay guy or a couple living together, and we think we have the obligation and right to warn them what God thinks about their sexuality on our first meeting. As if their sex life is the first thing on God's agenda.It's not.Love is. Grace is. Mercy is. Jesus is.

  Judah Smith

  Jesus, Sex, Couple

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, Poetry, Shining

  'Letter from Italy' (1704)

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• The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself. It changed poetry for ever in the UK, ... It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Country, War, Reading

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• And I want you to notice that one of them, one of the men almost has his tongue hanging out like he's licking his chops. Like this baby is ours now. And that's fine. You may call that love. But it looks to me a little bit like lust. And when they crave to bring the children of heterosexual couples through adoption into their homes, so that they can raise them in the homosexual lifestyle. And studies now show, that up to 20% kids raised by gay couples become gay themselves. It is a recruiting tool. And it is a child abuse tool.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  Baby, Children, Couple

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• I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town.

  Lesley Gore

  Two, Differences, Hiking

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• As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

  Antony Sher

  Courage, White, Be Who You Are

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• In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

  Edmund White

  Teacher, Book, Boys

  Interview with Edmond White, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1994.

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• When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.

  Greg Louganis

  Sports, Growing Up, Self Esteem

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• This is the amazing thing about you. Had I not known anything about your story, I would have absolutely not a clue that you had ever been a boy - a male. Which makes me absolutely believe you always should have been a woman.

  Piers Morgan

  Believe, Pride, Boys

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• He's trying to do info-tainment. He doesn't really want to talk about trans issues, he wants to sensationalize my life and not really talk about the work that I do and what the purpose of me writing this book was about.

  Janet Mock

  Book, Writing, Pride

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• I'm Michael Sam, I'm a football player, and I'm gay.

  Michael Sam

  Football, Pride, Player

  "'I'm Michael Sam, I'm an American football player … and I'm gay'". www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2014.

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• We live in an uncertain world and we want to believe that what a man is and what a woman is-I know that. And people don't want to critically interrogate the world around them. Whenever I'm afraid of something or I'm threatened by something, it's because it brings up some sort of insecurity in me. I think the reality is that most of us are insecure about our gender. They think, 'Okay, if there's this trans person over here, then what does that make me?

  Laverne Cox

  Believe, Pride, Insecure

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• This is an effort to have government coerce, force speech and behavior. And it's being pushed and advocated by the gay community. This is their ultimate goal. It's to not allow for diversity of opinion on this issue, because they don't want to be celebrated, they want to force everyone to not only agree with them but also have to finance their agenda.

  Michele Bachmann

  Pride, Issues, Government

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• God says, 'One woman, one man,' and everyone says, 'Oh, that's old hat, that's that old Bible stuff,'" he said. "But I'm thinking, well let's see now. A clean guy - a disease-free guy and a disease-free woman - they marry and they keep their sex between the two of them. They're not going to get chlamydia, and gonorrhea, and syphilis, and AIDS. It's safe.

  Phil Robertson

  Sex, Pride, Men

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• Make this man a saint now, OK?

  Elton John

  Pride, Men, Saint

  "Elton John calls Pope Francis 'my hero' at AIDS benefit, honors New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo", www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2014.

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• No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

  Dick Morris

  Military, Pride, Winning

  "Dean is a driving force in chasing faithful away". Dick Morris, The Daily Courier, July 31, 2003.

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• It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.

  George Weinberg

  Mother, Pride, Black

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• For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

  Tammy Bruce

  Pride, Rights, Enough

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.87, Crown Forum

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• As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Mother, Pride, Delight

  Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.42, Broadview Press

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• And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

  Robert MacNeil

  Pride, Son, Successful

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