Gay Quotes - Page 40

• Lots of women don't realize that they're gay until they're grown up.

  Clare Balding

  Realizing

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• I am a gay, Christian, farm girl from Kansas who sang Country Music and I did the very best I could do - to know God and to share God.

  Chely Wright

  Girl, Christian, Country

  "Confessions of a Gay Christian Country Singer" by Chely Wright, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my religious neighbors as fellow truth-seekers-but also because I deeply appreciated the book's nuanced approach to contentious issues. This is an important contribution to current debates, one which should be read not only for its valuable content but also for its exemplary tone: warm, engaging, optimistic, and humble.

  John Corvino

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

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• If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless... For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.

  Margaret Cho

  Integrity, Self Esteem, Bisexual

  "Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O". TV Special, June 13, 2002.

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• This is more a personal quibble of mine, but why do you hate freedom? Why do you hate the fact that other people want a chance to live their lives and be happy, even though they may believe in something different than you, or act different than you? How does gay marriage, in any way shape or form, affect your life?

  Chris Kluwe

  Hate, Believe, People

  "'They Won't Magically Turn You Into A Lustful Cockmonster': Chris Kluwe Explains Gay Marriage To The Politician Who Is Offended By An NFL Player Supporting It". deadspin.com. September 7, 2012.

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• I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.

  Antony Sher

  White, Three, Minorities

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• Gay people do not fight for freedom to live in a lavender bubble, but in a more just society.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Fighting, People, Lavender

  Urvashi Vaid (2015). “Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation”, p.93, Anchor

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• Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.

  Ouida

  Lying, Butterfly, Cities

  Ouida (2016). “Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes”, p.24, Ouida

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• As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Eye, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.36, Penguin

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• Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day!

  William Wordsworth

  Spring, Blow, Wind

  William Wordsworth (1852). “Complete Poetical Works”, p.419

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• I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have come to realize that "gay" is an artificial category when it comes to measuring a man or woman's on-the-job performance or commitment to shared goals. It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Jobs, Commitment, Differences

  "Bigotry That Hurts Our Military". www.washingtonpost.com. March 14, 2007.

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• In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement - the number restriction (two and only two) - is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Individual Choice, Two, Numbers

  "Pandora and Polygamy". jewishworldreview.com. March 17, 2006.

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• Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

  Alexander Pope

  Heart, Joy, Grace

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.59

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• When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.

  Sarah Silverman

  Party, Night, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't get this shitty attitude that only gays should care about gay issues and only women should care about women's issues.

  Sarah Silverman

  Attitude, Issues, Care

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arrest anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out against the government.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Russia, Government, Rebel

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist, patriarchal, ultra-right-wing, religious fundamentalists, whatever you want to call it is devoted to saying that sex is only moral and okay when it is directed towards having children and occurs in patriarchal marriage, so the children are owned.

  Gloria Steinem

  Religious, Sex, Children

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Miss Piggy and Chicken Little may rest easy, but gay people in Florida and California can no longer get married.

  Samantha Ronson

  Florida, California, People

  "Samantha Ronson: Defeat of Gay Measures 'Frightening'" by Mike Fleeman, people.com. November 6, 2008.

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• I love Jesus as much as I ever have. And I'm gay. Deal with it.

  Vicky Beeching

  Jesus, Deals, Jesus Love

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• I think it’s unfair that people can’t give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person — you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, ‘You can give your assets to anybody you want.’

  Foster Friess

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Republican Mega-Donor Foster Friess Urges Moderate Path On Gay Rights" by Chris Geidner, www.buzzfeed.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Full of fun, over-the-top characters and witty prose, with a touch of gay romance that is equally pleasing to straight readers. The Edwin Drood Murders is the perfect mystery for educated, intelligent readers.

  Rhys Bowen

  Witty, Fun, Character

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• Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Rose, Feelings, Age

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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• Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It's an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.

  Jerry Falwell

  Thinking, Rights, Yellow

  "The Situation with Tucker Carlson", www.nbcnews.com. August 5, 2005.

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• A peacock escaped from the Central Park Zoo and wandered around the city. Either that or I just saw a pigeon on his way to a gay pride parade.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Funny, Zoos, Pride

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• I'm pro-choice. I'm pro-gay rights.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Rights, Choices, Gay Rights

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

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