Gay Quotes

It's my belief that, like every other American, gay and lesbian couples should be able to make a lifetime commitment to the person they love and protect their families.
Mark Udall

Love, Person, Lesbian

Throughout my years of public service, I've listened to the voices of the gay and lesbian community, whether through whispered confidences or public declarations. I understand what it truly means to say that all people should be treated equally, and I'll always stand up for fair and equal treatment of gay and lesbian Americans.
Mark Udall

Through, Understand, Lesbian

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.
Anthony Weiner

Marriage, Legal, Live

A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.
Steve Guttenberg

Happen, Friends, Straight

I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.
William Weld

Freedom, Rights, Economic

Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.
John Schlesinger

Life, Positive, Everything

Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.
Herbie Mann

Women, Talk, Community

I couldn't care less if someone is gay or straight.
Judith Light

Care, Someone, Less

Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.
Judith Light

Women, Men, Fear

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.
Judith Light

Trying, Community, Spend

I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently.
Judith Light

Theatre, Quite, Early

To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.
Judith Light

Work, Human, Mean

Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.
Zachary Quinto

Society, Human, Why

I don't go into my dentist and say, 'Are you gay?' I don't say to contestants on 'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'Are you gay?' What does it got to do with me? What does it got to do with anybody?
Nigel Lythgoe

Dance, Anybody, Dentist

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.
Chaz Bono

Anger, Mom, Hurt

Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I'm an activist - that's just the kind of person I am.
Chaz Bono

Person, Lesbian, Movement

Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.
Sheryl Swoopes

Life, Happened, Later

Being gay has nothing to do with the three gold medals or the three MVPs or the four championships I've won. I'm still the same person. I'm Sheryl.
Sheryl Swoopes

Nothing, Person, Same

I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals.
Norm MacDonald

Broadway, Musicals

If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.
Daniel Keys Moran

Between, Difference, Couple

The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you're young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you're gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations.
Sebastian Junger

Long, Young, Son

I'm not an adulterer. I'm not gay.
Michael Strahan

Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.
Martina Navratilova

Movement, Recycling, Recycle

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
Ian Mckellen

Reality, Soldier, Leader

It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
Ian Mckellen

Marriage, Long, Same

Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been.
Mark Morris

Love, Music, Art

Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky.
Eric McCormack

Character, Someone, America

I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.
Eric McCormack

Before, Played, Shows

We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny.
Eric McCormack

Funny, Change, Grace

Lately, I've been a little sad that I'm not a gay man.
Gina Gershon

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