Gay Quotes - Page 34

• I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.

  Antonio Banderas

  Character, Thinking, Guy

  "Banderas: I'm No Latin Lover". abcnews.go.com. August 1.

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• If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

  Ken Livingstone

  Rights, London, Firsts

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• I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.

  Ellen Barkin

  Crazy, Cancer, Thinking

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• It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

  Thom Gunn

  Teacher, Proud, Fame

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• I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

  Larry Kramer

  Pride, Thinking, People

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• I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.

  Larry Kramer

  Men, Thinking, Black

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• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  Larry Kramer

  Men, World, Stuck

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• Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.

  Larry Kramer

  Pride, Thinking, Bars

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• George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.

  Larry Kramer

  Men, Names, Intellectual

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• I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.

  Larry Kramer

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Expression

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• I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.

  Larry Kramer

  New York, Fighting, Years

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• I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.

  Larry Kramer

  Suicide, School, Yale

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• Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.

  Larry Kramer

  Fighting, Thinking, Issues

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• The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

  Larry Kramer

  America, Stupidity, Important

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• There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?

  Larry Kramer

  Issues, Movement, Extinction

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• Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.

  Larry Kramer

  Hate, Dirty, Mean

  "AIDS is a plague allowed to happen" By Larry Kramer, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2011.

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• I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent. America has watched me parent my children on TV for six years. They know what kind of parent I am.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Rosie O'Donnell: Being a Gay Mom, abcnews.go.com. March 14.

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• I don't think you choose whether or not you're gay.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Thinking, You Choose

  "Rosie O'Donnell: Being a Gay Mom". abcnews.go.com. March 14.

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• If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Falling In Love, Opposites, Gender

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• Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language; some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.

  Dylan McDermott

  Sorry, Paris, Speaks French

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• The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.

  John Shelby Spong

  Past, Years, Civilization

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• When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.

  Gus Van Sant

  Home, Adolescence, Feels

  Interview with Briony Hanson at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.

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• You see gay relationships that are just stunning in the quality of the relationship.

  Justin Welby

  Relationship, Quality, Stunning

  "Justin Welby speaks of same-sex challenges for Church". www.bbc.com. March 21, 2013.

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• I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.

  Gary Bauer

  Party, Believe, Fighting

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• I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay.

  Jason Bateman

  Cities, People, My Best Friend

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