Gay Quotes - Page 35

• The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.

  Lance Bass

  Community, Fickle, Knows

  "Kim Kardashian gets classy in Playboy". www.today.com. October 22, 2007.

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• Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?

  Lance Bass

  People, Up To You, Hey

  "'NSYNC's Lance Bass reveals he's gay: 'I'm not ashamed ... I don't think it's wrong'" by Jennifer Vineyard, www.mtv.com. July 26, 2006.

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• We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.

  Rob Bell

  Brother, Uncles, Real

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• The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party.

  Tammy Bruce

  Christian, Dream, Encouragement

  "Why Tea Party women lead the charge". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2010.

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• I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.

  Chris Colfer

  Growing Up, Character, Saws

  "*Glee'*s Chris Colfer Wants to Show You His Ass". Interview with Brett Berk, www.vanityfair.com. April 27, 2010.

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• The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.

  Chris Colfer

  Real, People, Attention

  "*Glee'*s Chris Colfer Wants to Show You His Ass". Interview with Brett Berk, www.vanityfair.com. April 27, 2010.

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• I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.

  Mark Consuelos

  Gay Marriage, States

  "Mark Consuelos Talks Rob Kardashian’s Butt, ‘Gay Marriage Plays’" by Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I'm gay, and I was born this way.

  Cat Cora

  Way, Born, Born This Way

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• Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.

  Jack Antonoff

  Fighting, Majority, Faces

  "Straight Allies: The Importance and the Realities" by Jack Antonoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.

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• For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.

  Gary Ackerman

  Military, People, Brave

  "Rep. Ackerman Warns of Terrorist 'Platoon of Lesbians'". Gary Ackerman's remarks during House Foreign Affairs Committee on the State Department budget at the United States Capitol in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2007.

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• Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Religious, Church, Religious Life

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• I've had gay friends who grew up in small towns in France who had to lie for most of their lives, even to themselves. But eventually such lies become stronger than the people, and they have to face them.

  Guillaume Canet

  Lying, People, Stronger

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• I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset?

  Mario Cantone

  Mother, Song, Nuts

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• In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.

  Mario Cantone

  Religious, Years, Wings

  "Mario Cantone on His First San Francisco Stint" by Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2010.

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• Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Brother, Needs, Holiness

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• From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Black

  Samuel R. Delany, Carl Howard Freedman (2009). “Conversations with Samuel R. Delany”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, "If I was gay, I'd be with him" - you know?

  Garret Dillahunt

  Men, Sexuality, Knows

  "Garret Dillahunt's Triple Play". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.yahoo.com. April 24, 2012.

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• Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  New York, Fate, Thinking

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.

  Adam Garcia

  Thinking, People, Care

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• It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.

  Adam Garcia

  Fun, Tease, Persons

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• My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

  Adam Garcia

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Wind

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• I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.

  John Galliano

  Father, Honest, Said

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• I'm a gay man who came from the last years of illegality. That focused my whole character. I think it focused everyone's character in a way. You saw yourself as outside of the main structure.

  Rupert Everett

  Character, Men, Thinking

  "Rupert Everett: 'If I'd been straight? I'd be doing what Hugh Grant and Colin Firth do, I suppose" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2009.

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• If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance.

  Rupert Everett

  Religious, Tolerance, Hearing

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• We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.

  Bella Abzug

  Men, Law, Political

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