Gay Quotes - Page 36

• I love blacks and gays and latinos, as long as they don't live next door.

  Mojo Nixon

  Reality, Doors, Long

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• Won't someone please answer my prayers before I'm old and gray. I've been lonely too long and all my family thinks I'm gay.

  Rod Stewart

  Lonely, Prayer, Thinking

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• Republicans say that sex is bad, because with them it always is. It is!...I'm sorry, but they're just doughy, asexual, wonky, white people, and if you had to have sex with them it would be over in an excruciating three minutes. It's just, - and from the headlines of the past year I gather the only sex they're really good at, is gay sex. Really.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Sorry, Past

  "Bill Maher: The Decider". Documentary, Comedy, 2007.

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• If I was gay, why would I hide it?

  David Copperfield

  Ifs

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• It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.

  David Copperfield

  Way, Okay

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• It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.

  Mary Cheney

  School, Years, Car

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• There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.

  Mary Cheney

  People, United States, Well Known

  Mary Cheney (2006). “Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life”, Pocket Books

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• I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.

  Edie Falco

  Kids, Men, People

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• I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Sex, Thinking, Wings

  Interview with Michael Barbaro, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2010.

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• I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective, as a playable thing. Maybe it's an element of the character, but it just describes a preference.

  John Michael Higgins

  Character, Play, Adjectives

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• I've got quite a big gay following. I played a lesbian prostitute in the TV series 'Band Of Gold' but I think my following really grew when I played one in the film 'Imagine Me & You,' with Piper Perabo.

  Lena Headey

  Thinking, Gold, Band

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• I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.

  Janis Ian

  Couple, Nashville, Issues

  "Janis Ian's Controversial 'Society's Child'". Interview with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. March 2, 2009.

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• Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.

  Janis Ian

  Rights, People, Community

  "Janis Ian Talks About Her Grammy Nomination and LGBT Issues". Interview with Charlotte Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2013.

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• I have so many gay friends that I love.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Gay Friend

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• I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.

  Carson Kressley

  Being Yourself, Growing Up, Kids

  "Carson Kressley: There’s nothing better than having Oprah in your corner". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. June 23, 2011.

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• When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing.

  Carson Kressley

  Growing Up, Blessing, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.

  Carson Kressley

  Rights, Color, Age

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

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• Feeling so gay, feeling so gay.

  David Bowie

  Honesty, Feelings

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• He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.

  Al Yankovic

  Revenge, Jocks, Teeth

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• You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Song, Guitar, Rock And Roll

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

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• It's important not to lose sight of the fact people of all sorts are still putting themselves at risk. It happens to straight and gay, single and married. I have never been comfortable thinking of AIDS as something that 'other people' get.

  Brande Roderick

  Thinking, Sight, People

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• Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.

  Billy Bragg

  Sticks, Common, Turns

  Billy Bragg (2015). “A Lover Sings: Selected Lyrics”, p.81, Faber & Faber

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• All I want to do is be a gay icon. I was reading Lady Gaga's twitter, because she has like 12 million followers, or something like that. I feel like she has fans, gay, straight, bi, who would throw themselves off a building for her.

  Mindy Kaling

  Reading, Icons, Fans

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• I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Believe, Community, Different

  "Cynthia Nixon Updates Her Controversial Statement: She Now Says She is 'Technically' Bisexual" by Gena Kaufman, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.

  Kathy Najimy

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