Gay famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.
-- A. J. McLean -
Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
-- A. J. McLean -
I never had a low self-esteem that would make me gay. At one point, though, the reverse happened. Being homosexual led me to have a loss of self-esteem when I first became aware of society's attitudes about homosexuality.
-- Aaron Fricke -
I'm a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'
-- Adam Carolla -
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 -
It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.
-- Adam Garcia -
I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
-- Adam Garcia -
Tell you what, if there were gays in the army 'Saving Private Ryan' would have been a hell of a lot shorter film. There is no way it would take gay men three hours to find Matt Damon.
-- Adam Hills -
I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.
-- Adam Lambert -
People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.
-- Adam Lambert -
I can single handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired. Trust me, you're born with it. My brother is gay, and we knew when he was two.
-- Adam Levine -
I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episodes.' He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.
-- Adam Pally -
You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.
-- Adam Sandler -
Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.
-- Adrien Brody -
I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
-- Adrienne Rich -
I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple - gay or straight - should be able to get married.
-- Al Franken -
Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
-- Al Franken -
I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
-- Al Pacino -
They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
-- Al Sharpton -
As a Baptist minister, I don't have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
-- Al Sharpton -
He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
-- Al Yankovic -
You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
-- Alan Ball -
What am I supposed to do if I go bald? Get a wig? Fat, goofy, gay, wig. I might as well get a piano and start an Elton John tribute act!
-- Alan Carr -
I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.
-- Alan Chambers -
But as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn't rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch.
-- Alan Chambers -
One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.
-- Alan Chambers -
I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers. I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.
-- Alan Chambers -
It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
-- Alan Cumming -
I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out
-- Alan Cumming -
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 -
By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.
-- Aldous Huxley -
There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up horses.
-- Alec Sulkin -
I am a supporter of blacks. White civilization; their cultural values​​, false, dehumanizing model of the world, built by them - did not pay off. Everything goes to the beginning of the anti-white pogroms on a planetary scale. Russia saved only by the fact that we are not pure white. Predatory multinational corporations, oppression and suppression of all others, MTV, gays and lesbians - this is the fruit of white civilization, from which it is necessary to get rid of. So I am for reds, yellows, greens, blacks - but not for whites. I wholeheartedly on the side of the people of Zimbabwe.
-- Aleksandr Dugin -
I want to play the mean girl one day - or the mean gay!
-- Alex Newell -
The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise.
-- Alex Sanchez -
You know, you hear about these movements for women, and for children, and for people who are any race but white, and you think that it's about time that men got a movement. Think about it. Guys can't play the piano, or dance, or sing. We can't cry, or be too happy, or show any emotion for that matter. The only thing we have left to us is anger, and even that we have to bottle up. Boys should be able to express what they feel and not have to endure people laughing at them, forcing them to wonder if they're gay or not, just because they like to paint.
-- Alex Sanchez -
It's better to be a dictator than gay.
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there...when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
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 -
Man's nature is not a bit the same as wines. He loses flavour as his life declines. We drink the oldest wine that comes our way. Old men get nasty, old wines make us gay.
-- Alexis Sanchez -
I am the Love that dare not speak its name.
-- Alfred Douglas -
If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there is no reason for believing that the incidence of the homosexual in the next generation would be materially reduced. The homosexual has been a significant part of human sexual activity since the dawn of history, primarily because it is an expression of capacities that are basic in the human animal.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
It is amazing to observe how many psychologists and psychiatrists have accepted this sort of propaganda, and have come to believe that homosexual males and females are discretely different from persons who respond to natural stimuli. Instead of using these terms as substantives which stand for persons, or even as adjectives to describe persons, they may better be used to describe the nature of the overt sexual relations, or of the stimuli to which an individual erotically responds.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
[Gays and lesbians should be] Punished, in fact, killed. The people involved should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing.
-- Ali al-Sistani -
I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the mainstream and then you get ghettoized and put on some lesbian book club reading list where you don't want to be either.
-- Ali Liebegott -
Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, “It's not like I hate gay people.â€
-- Ali Liebegott -
Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.
-- Ali Smith -
Childhood is but change made gay and visible ...
-- Alice Meynell -
[On Philadelphia society:] The parties remind me of the Gay Nineties -- the men are gay and the women are in their nineties.
-- Alice-Leone Moats -
The most important political step that any gay man or lesbian can take is to come out of the closet. It's been proven that it is easier to hate us and to fear us if you can't see us.
-- Amanda Bearse -
My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it.
-- Amanda Bearse -
I think specifically because of the character that I played, people are very connected to her. I used to get letters from young gay and lesbian and trans-gendered kids saying, 'I didn't kill myself because of Buffy'.
-- Amber Benson -
Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels out into the sunlight.
-- Amy Lowell -
Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.
-- Amy Waldman -
I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.
-- Anderson Cooper -
Satan delights in homosexual perversion because it not only exists outside of marriage, but it also defiles God' very image reflected as male and female.
-- Andrew Comiskey -
Another related source of demonization is the homosexual relationship itself...That attachment and communion are indeed inspired, but their source is demonic.
-- Andrew Comiskey -
We need marriage equality in every state in this nation. Otherwise, no state really has marriage equality, and we will not rest until it is a reality.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York...
-- Andrew Cuomo -
I think the best part of being gay is when you're done [with sex], you could turn over and talk about football.
-- Andrew Dice Clay -
Obviously making Peter Parker suddenly bisexual or gay wouldn't really make logical or dramatic sense. It was a hypothetical kind of question about the nature of these comic book characters and the nature of this particular character, and whether sexuality, race, any of those things makes any difference to the character of Peter Parker.
-- Andrew Garfield -
One of the amazing things about Spider-Man is that you don’t see skin colour when he’s in the suit. You don’t see any religious beliefs. A hero is a hero, whether you’re a man, woman, gay, lesbian, straight, black, white or red all over ― it doesn’t matter.
-- Andrew Garfield -
My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass.
-- Andrew Marvell -
When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, 'Will & Grace' started up.
-- Andrew Rannells -
This is a musical, ma'am. If there's no gay, there's a problem.
-- Andrew Rannells -
Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.
-- Andrew Rannells -
Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
-- Andrew Young -
Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!
-- Andy Dick -
I respect the Governor's position to veto SB1062, especially in light of the concerns brought up over the past week. I understand the concerns of people of good faith on all sides of this issue.
-- Andy Tobin -
I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.
-- Ang Lee -
Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.
-- Ang Lee -
After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You've got to go on a T.V. show and tell everyone you like gay people.' I was like, 'Why?' He was like, 'Because you're a Republican.' I was like, 'I'm sorry who's stereotyping who?'
-- Angie Harmon -
As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.
-- Anita Bryant -
If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.
-- Anita Bryant -
Faggot isn't offensive to gays; it's got nothing to do with gays.
-- Ann Coulter -
Fair, rich confusion is all the aim of an old-fashioned flower garden, and the greater the confusion, the richer. You want to come upon mignonnette in unexpected places, and to find sprays of heliotrope in close consultation with your roses, and geraniums sporting their uniforms like gay recruits off duty.
-- Anna Bartlett Warner -
Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those would have most scandalized her own mother.
-- Anna Godbersen -
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
-- Anna Quindlen -
if there ever was a time for sentimentality and traditional merrymaking, one that has transcended religious orientation, Christmas must be that time. The effect seems salutary: even people who ordinarily are as colorful and gay as groundworms, who would dare not consider a flamboyant gesture, hang long strings of brightly colored lights around their houses, trim Christmas trees, and talk to strangers.
-- Anna Thomas -
It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
Love is a human experience, not a political statement.
-- Anne Hathaway -
There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent. I am not being brave, I'm a decent human being... Love is a human experience, not a political statement
-- Anne Hathaway -
In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.
-- Anne Rice -
It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in.
-- Annie Laurie Gaylor -
The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.
-- Annie Lennox
