Gay Quotes - Page 39

• I can't think of many reasons as to why, but gay men and straight women both share an inherent attraction to men, and attraction informs a large part of human nature.

  Gideon Glick

  Men, Thinking, Human Nature

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Flower, Light, Way

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• Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and crooks; who never spoke English; was not an American citizen; anti-capitalism; totally anti-death penalty; anti-public prayer (Matthew 6:5); but never once anti-gay; didn't mention abortion; and was a long-haired, brown-skinned, homeless, middle-eastern, Jew?

  John Fugelsang

  Prayer, Long, Abortion

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• I think they ought to be treated equally. Period.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Thinking, Periods, Treated

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• I believe in liberty and freedom for all. I believe in gay marriage.

  Jewel

  Believe, Liberty, Gay Marriage

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• Hey, guess who's gay? The Green Lantern from the comic books. Today Mitt Romney knocked him down and shaved his head.

  David Letterman

  Book, Down And, Today

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• Gays are now allowed to serve openly in the military. So maybe our next war could be a musical.

  David Letterman

  Military, War, Musical

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• Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.

  Matthew Arnold

  Years, Age, Dawn

  Matthew Arnold (1954). “A selection of his poems”

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• I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Coming Out, Closets, Explanation

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• To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind of lifestyle is a call to holiness, a call to celibacy and integrity. Obviously, it is a capitulation toward one's desires and the sexual sins that the Bible so strongly condemns.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Integrity, Mind

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• I am going around British secondary schools, as a gay man talking about my life, and encouraging schools to get rid of homophobic bullying and to care for their gay members of staff and their gay students.

  Ian Mckellen

  Bullying, School, Men

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all been encouraged by society to think of themselves as oddities or mutants. I hope that's why X-Men chimes with them - it's certainly why I was attracted to the idea in the first place.

  Ian Mckellen

  Men, Thinking, Oddities

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm dead against the idea that you should try to "cure" people of being gay.

  Ian Mckellen

  Ideas, People, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them.

  Ian Mckellen

  Character, Old Fashioned, Sitcom

  Source: collider.com

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• That is the beauty of having characters that don't make a big deal out of being gay, or lesbian, or whatever. They are just what they are, and that is acceptable - and that nobody should question that and that love is love.

  Katrina Law

  Character, Love Is, Should

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.

  Bear Grylls

  Progressive, Should, Scouting

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Yes, the Boy Scouts of America should definitely allow gay adult leaders and I think it's really going to hold them back if they don't.

  Bear Grylls

  Boys, Thinking, America

  "I Went Camping With Bear Grylls And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, www.gizmodo.com.au. November 22, 2014.

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• I think the best article was the article about radical feminists being against transgender women. I found that the most fascinating article and I absolutely loved it. I love battles within the gay community or feminist community. I love radical theorists.

  John Waters

  Thinking, Feminist, Community

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I might be responsible for as many gay marriages as I am for heterosexual divorces.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Divorce, Might, Responsible

  "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• I’m a gay man in a woman’s body.

  Victoria Beckham

  Men, Body, Women's Bodies

  Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

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• I love gay people. Or as I sometimes call them, 'people.'

  Rob Delaney

  People, Sometimes, Gay People

  FaceBook post by Rob Delaney from Feb 23, 2012

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• Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda.

  George Packer

  Games, Campaigns, Terrorism

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• I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Believe, Thinking, Minorities

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

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• To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Shapes, Just Being, Used

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• I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.

  Clare Balding

  Gay Marriage, Campaigns, Quiet

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