Gay Quotes - Page 32

• Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'

  Graham Norton

  Men, Thinking, Clubs

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• One of the great things about being gay and out is that the papers couldn't care less about your love life.

  Graham Norton

  Love Life, Paper, Care

  "Not so Graham Norton" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2001.

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• I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.'

  Graham Norton

  Growing Up, People, Feelings

  "The name's Norton. Graham Norton" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.

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• I never stopped being attracted to women. Bisexuality is misunderstood; the adage is that you're either straight or gay or lying, but that's not my experience. To call me anything other than bisexual would be inaccurate.

  Clive Davis

  Lying, Bisexual, Misunderstood

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• I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or not. Feminists who think they can abolish the sex trade are in a state of massive delusion. Only a ruthless, fascist regime of vast scale could eradicate the rogue sex impulse that is indistinguishable from the life force. Simply in the Western world, pagan sexuality has survived 2000 years of Judaeo-Christian persecution and is hardly going to be defeated by a few feminists whacking at it with their brooms.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Sex, Thinking

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• I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like hard-core gay activists) who profane sacred ground do not have the imagination to educate the young. … Until the left comes to its senses about the cultural power of religion, the right will continue to broaden its appeal.

  Camille Paglia

  Religious, Believe, Men

  "Vamps and Tramps". Book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• No girl wants a secretly gay boyfriend, every dude wants a secretly gay girlfriend.

  Joe Rogan

  Girl, Girlfriend, Want

  "Shiny Happy Jihad". Album by Joe Rogan, April 10, 2007.

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• When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Song, People, Grew Up

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• I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Divorce, Gay Marriage

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• I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Affection, Bigs, Display

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• I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good.

  Lara Stone

  Children, Boys, Would Be

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

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• I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.

  Mark Gatiss

  Men, Class, Kind

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• Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality.

  Mel White

  Christian, Lying, Holy

  "Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality". Book by Mel White, 2011.

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• They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

  Al Sharpton

  Constitution, Adultery, Sin

  "Sharpton Pledges Fight Against Homophobia Among Blacks" by Jamal Watson, New York Sun, August 3, 2005.

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• I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!

  Sia Furler

  Men, Body, Sometimes

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

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• Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I'm gay: well, the fact that I'm flamboyantly gay.

  Ross Mathews

  Love You, Voice, Different

  "Why Ross Mathews decided to 'Man Up!'". Interview with Tess Gilbert, www.cnn.com. May 2, 2013.

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• There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny.

  Eric Allman

  Hate, Knowing, Pieces

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• There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

  Catherine Opie

  Art, Aesthetic, Camps

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• I'm not always comfortable when a man tells me he's gay, I don't understand his world but I do understand that he's part of mine.

  Dale Hansen

  Men, World, Mines

  "INTERVIEW: Sports caster Dale Hansen discusses the motivation behind his defense of Michael Sam". Interview with Catherine Morpeth, fourtwonine.com. February 13, 2014.

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• Welcome to Smackdown. This is where the franchise plays. That's Tazz, he's a thug. And that's Michael Cole, he's gay.

  John Cena

  Thug, Wwe, Play

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• They spent the night in jail, where their progressive views on gay marriage served them well.

  Ann Coulter

  Night, Views, Jail

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• If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power?

  Jeff Greenfield

  Couple, Government, Law

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• You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Bisexual

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• Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Mirth, Abandonment

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favourite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee.

  William C. Bryant

  Art, Laughing, Bed

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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