Gay Quotes - Page 31

• Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Pride, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

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• Creating fear and loathing of gay and lesbian Americans has proven, year after year, to be the most effective say for Dobson and the other fundamentalist Christian leaders to raise millions of dollars and recruit millions of volunteers to support their long-range campaign to take back America.

  Mel White

  Christian, Years, Creating

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• Fundamentalist Christianity is not just a threat to lesbians and gays, but to all Americans who cherish democracy and the rights and protections guaranteed us by the U.S. constitution.

  Mel White

  Rights, Democracy, Notable

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• Jerry Falwell turned gay bashing into a very successful art form.... the first fundamentalist to exploit the fear and loathing of homosexuals to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and add millions of new donors to his mailing list.

  Mel White

  Art, Successful, Fear And Loathing

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• We cheer the presence of an openly gay woman or man on television there are large numbers of people in Virginia and other states who see these public affirmations as another step towards the country's oblivion.

  Mel White

  Country, Cheer, Men

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• Don't we get it? To put our arm around someone who is gay, someone who has an addiction, somebody who lives a different lifestyle, someone who is not what we think they should be... doing that has nothing to do with enabling them or accepting what they do as okay by us. It has nothing to do with encouraging them in their practice of what you or I might feel or believe is wrong vs right.It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.

  Daniel Pearce

  Believe, Good Friend, Thinking

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• Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.

  Peter Bart

  Attitude, Velvet, Cozy

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• We must go for a day in the country and when surrounded by the gay twittering of the birds and the smell of the cows I will lay my suit at her feet and he waved his arm wildly at the gay thought.

  Daisy Ashford

  Country, Smell, Feet

  Daisy Ashford (2016). “The Young Visiters”, p.36, Daisy Ashford

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• I've been told that I am evil. I've been told that I am behind the persecution of millions of Americans. That I have encouraged hate toward gays. I've received both very brief and obscene messages, and very long and literate messages that tell me a vote for Crash was vote for homophobia.

  Roger Ebert

  Hate, Long, Evil

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• When I came out, when I was 17 years old, it was one of those things where I realized that there was going to be so many obstacles, but being gay doesn't mean being weak. And being gay doesn't mean that you are less than anybody else. It's just who you are.

  Bob Harper

  Mean, Years, Obstacles

  "'Biggest Loser' trainer Bob Harper reveals he's gay" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. November 27, 2013.

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• No. I can quite happily say someone is handsome, good-looking, and I can see why someone would want to f**k them, but I've never felt that way about a man myself. There is that moment in your late teens when you ask yourself the question, 'Am I?' but I wasn'tWell, this year I have a talent crush on Ryan Gosling. I think he's fantastic and(ahem) you know he'd be nice afterwards. He seems smart. If I was gay, I would go for a smart man.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Crush, Smart, Nice

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• Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Commitment, Mirrors, Marrying

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

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• Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Sex, Party, Bishops

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

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• Mary Martin was Broadway's biggest closet king. Everyone thought Ethel (Merman) was butch and maybe a lesbian, but she wasn't. And everyone thought that lovely little Mary was Miss Femme, and she was -- except next to her gay husband. In other words, don't judge a star by her cover.

  Bob Fosse

  Kings, Stars, Husband

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• Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.

  Tony Kushner

  Fables, Ridiculous, Realms

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• One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.

  Tony Kushner

  Play, People, Socialism

  Interview with Andrea Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.

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• Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.

  Boy George

  Divorce, Thinking, Ideas

  The London Evening Standard, February 20, 2006.

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• I have a nihilistic attitude so it's like, the new gay... it's popular.

  Gerard Way

  Attitude

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• I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.

  Tim Cook

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Apples

  "Tim Cook Speaks Up" by Tim Cook, www.bloomberg.com. October 30, 2014.

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• I support allowing gay couples to marry because of - not in spite of - my values. And many of those values are the same ones deeply held by those who do not believe in gay marriage.

  Mark Udall

  Couple, Believe, Support

  "Same-sex marriage debate: A model for other issues" by Mark Udall, www.politico.com.

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• If you were just a regular person, you turned on the TV, and you saw Eric Cantor talking, I would say—and I'm fine with gay people, that's all right—but my gaydar is 60-70 percent. But he's not, I think, so I don't know. Again, I couldn't care less. I'm accepting.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Interview with Jeff Greenfield, www.playboy.com. October 16, 2014.

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• Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does any religious conviction justify denying lesbians and gays a basic legal promise of non-discrimination in hiring, public accommodations, and housing? Surely the answer to this question is no. Correcting that inequity would begin the process of recognizing that both sides - gay couples and religious objectors - have rights and that reasonable accommodation is possible only when both sides have something to gain.

  David Blankenhorn

  Religious, Couple, Kansas

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• Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at every level, including the religious-which means it should be essential reading for everybody.

  Donna Freitas

  Christian, Religious, Attitude

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• I'm not afraid of who I am. I'm not afraid to tell the world who I am. I'm Michael Sam, I'm a college graduate, I'm African-American and I'm gay.

  Michael Sam

  College, Who I Am, African American

  "Mizzou's Michael Sam says he's gay". Interview with Chris Connelly, www.espn.com. February 11, 2014.

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• The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment.... Hungry women are not fed by this, battered women are not sheltered by it, raped women do not find justice in it, gays and lesbians do not achieve legal protections through it.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Commitment, Loss, America

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