256 Quotes on Gay

• I had heard before that there were rumors I was gay. It's funny. My cousin gets his hair cut at this place, and one of the guys there told him that Scott Wolf was gay. He didn't realize that he was my cousin.

  Author: Scott Wolf

• It's kind of a shame that it's even an issue. Not being gay, I can't fully appreciate how complicated that is. In the article, the interviewer asked me, and I said that if I were, I would just say it.

  Author: Scott Wolf

• We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

  Author: Robin Williams

• An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.

  Author: Robbie Williams

• In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

  Author: Edmund White

• 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.

  Author: William Weld

• 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.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

  Author: George Weinberg

• It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.

  Author: George Weinberg

• We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.

  Author: George Weinberg

• My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.

  Author: George Weinberg

• The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.

  Author: Johnny Vegas

• Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.

  Author: Thomas Tusser

• I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

  Author: James Thomson

• Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.

  Author: Scott Thompson

• A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• As I walk around, I have met 70-year-old women who live on the Upper West Side who love the show. And I met a couple in Kansas - a couple of truck drivers who drove around together - who loved it. It's popular all over the place and definitely in the gay community.

  Author: Lee Tergesen

• When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.

  Author: Neil Tennant

• The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.

  Author: Neil Tennant

• A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.

  Author: Neil Tennant

• My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

  Author: 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.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Andrew Sullivan

• There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.

  Author: Michael Stipe

• Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• Ultimately, love conquers all, and gay or straight, don't we all want to believe that? I would that if this was to happen to me, and one of my kids had come and told me he or she was gay, I would say: If that's the only way you can live, then I love you.

  Author: Paul Sorvino

• I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.

  Author: Paul Sorvino

• The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun.

  Author: Christian Siriano

• As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

  Author: Antony Sher

• Trust me, if I were gay I'd be getting more action than I'm getting now.

  Author: Ryan Seacrest

• The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

  Author: Florida Scott-Maxwell

• I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• We had this party in New York, and there were a lot of gay men there dressed up as the characters. I showed up just looking like myself, but it was a real case of shame. They looked so fantastic. We could never quite live up to it.

  Author: Jennifer Saunders

• 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.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend.

  Author: Jeri Ryan

• When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name.

  Author: Portia Rossi

• The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

  Author: Portia Rossi

• You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.

  Author: Portia Rossi

• I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!

  Author: Portia Rossi

• I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

  Author: Portia Rossi

• I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.

  Author: Portia Rossi

• If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.

  Author: Portia Rossi

• I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.

  Author: Diana Ross

• Valentino was apparently gay or bisexual. And his two lesbian wives. But without any question, he had sex with men. From choice. So he was one or the other.

  Author: Cesar Romero

• I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.

  Author: Joe Rogan

• I consider myself gay because at the end of the night, that's who I want to cuddle with. But when I go out, I go to straight clubs.

  Author: Jai Rodriguez

• I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

  Author: Jai Rodriguez

• My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

  Author: Jai Rodriguez

• My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.

  Author: Jai Rodriguez

• Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.

  Author: Jai Rodriguez

• I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.

  Author: Jai Rodriguez

• To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

  Author: Dennis Rodman

• Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.

  Author: Chris Rock

• I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

  Author: Gene Robinson

• There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.

  Author: Gene Robinson

• I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.

  Author: Herb Ritts

• Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.

  Author: John Ritter

• Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.

  Author: Little Richard

• I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

  Author: Anne Rice

• A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

  Author: Robert Reich

• People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

  Author: Keanu Reeves

• Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

  Author: Anna Quindlen

• All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

  Author: Anna Quindlen

• I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

  Author: Richard Pryor

• I think it's great now that we seem to be in an era where it's OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society.

  Author: Jason Priestley

• If people think I am gay, yeah, hey that doesn't bother me. Not at all. What would people think? To me I am such a heterosexual guy. It doesn't even, I don't even think about it.

  Author: Jason Priestley

• I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

  Author: Natalie Portman

• I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.

  Author: Dana Plato

• No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

  Author: Robert Plant

• It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.

  Author: Charles Pierce

• I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

  Author: Emo Philips

• I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

  Author: Bernadette Peters

• In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

  Author: Bernadette Peters

• The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.

  Author: Troy Perry

• I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not.

  Author: Matthew Perry

• Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.

  Author: Anthony Perkins

• Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.

  Author: Rod Parsley

• Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

  Author: Ouida

• Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

  Author: Ted Olson

• I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.

  Author: Jean O'Leary

• Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

  Author: Jean O'Leary

• Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.

  Author: Sean O'Faolain

• Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.

  Author: Sean O'Casey

• During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion.

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

  Author: Barack Obama

• We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

  Author: Barack Obama

• And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.

  Author: Gary Numan

• 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.

  Author: Martina Navratilova

• No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

  Author: Dick Morris

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

  Author: Daniel Moran

• Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.

  Author: Kylie Minogue

• My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.

  Author: Kylie Minogue

• I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.

  Author: George Michael

• My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

  Author: George Michael

• I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.

  Author: Debra Messing

• Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.

  Author: Larry McMurtry

• I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.

  Author: Ian McKellen

• 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.

  Author: Ian Mckellen

• 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.

  Author: Ian Mckellen

• I am a gay American.

  Author: James McGreevey

• If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

  Author: Phil McGraw

• 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.

  Author: Eric McCormack

• I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.

  Author: Armistead Maupin

• But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

  Author: Armistead Maupin

• I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.

  Author: Robert Mapplethorpe

• 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.

  Author: Herbie Mann

• I don't think any gay dude is gangsta, period.

  Author: Method Man

• How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?

  Author: Method Man

• An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.

  Author: Gustav Mahler

• Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.

  Author: Bill Maher

• Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the "will of the people" goes out the window.

  Author: Bill Maher

• And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

  Author: Robert MacNeil

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

  Author: Norm MacDonald

• A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.

  Author: Lorna Luft

• I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.

  Author: Matt Lucas

• When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.

  Author: Greg Louganis

• David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.

  Author: Lance Loud

• Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

  Author: Lance Loud

• It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

  Author: Lance Loud

• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

  Author: Lance Loud

• If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.

  Author: Lance Loud

• As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.

  Author: Lance Loud

• I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

  Author: Audre Lorde

• I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

  Author: Audre Lorde

• You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.

  Author: Judith Light

• 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.

  Author: Judith Light

• 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.

  Author: Judith Light

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

  Author: Judith Light

• 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.

  Author: Judith Light

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

  Author: Judith Light

• Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.

  Author: David Letterman

• I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

  Author: Annie Lennox

• 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.

  Author: Ang Lee

• I am not bisexual. I am not gay. I have never had sex with men.

  Author: Matt LeBlanc

• There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.

  Author: Nathan Lane

• People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.

  Author: Nathan Lane

• I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.'

  Author: Jim Kolbe

• There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator.

  Author: Calvin Klein

• There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.

  Author: Calvin Klein

• We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

  Author: Eartha Kitt

• The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.

  Author: Mia Kirshner

• I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies.

  Author: Tommy Kirk

• Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.

  Author: Billie King

• For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

  Author: Ron Kind

• They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with.

  Author: Nicole Kidman

• If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I don't, then it's assumed that I'm gay.

  Author: Shahrukh Khan

• I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.

  Author: Vanessa Kerry

• And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

  Author: Elton John

• It never occurred to me that I needed to say that I was gay. I simply am. Anyone who knows me or who's been around me ten minutes knows it too.

  Author: Michael Jeter

• These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

  Author: Derek Jarman

• I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder.

  Author: Hugh Jackman

• I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.

  Author: Laura Innes

• Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

  Author: Laura Innes

• I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends.

  Author: Laura Innes

• I do not think our priorities are misplaced when we are looking at creating a whole new class of children from these gay marriages who could end up completely dependent on the State, on the taxpayers - the American people.

  Author: James Inhofe

• Homophobia is gay.

  Author: Frank Iero

• It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

  Author: Horace

• I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.

  Author: Patricia Highsmith

• Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

  Author: Matthew Henry

• Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep.

  Author: Matthew Henry

• And I'd like to believe that's true, you know, kind of showing gay people in this kind of light and - where it's not about that, it's just about the characters for the first time, like those shows were.

  Author: Sean Hayes

• The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date.

  Author: Sean Hayes

• But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.

  Author: Sean Hayes

• They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week.

  Author: Sean Hayes

• I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.

  Author: Harry Hay

• A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.

  Author: Randy Harrison

• It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

  Author: Randy Harrison

• I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

  Author: Mark Haddon

• I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

  Author: Jake Gyllenhaal

• I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

  Author: Jasmine Guy

• I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.

  Author: Jasmine Guy

• There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.

  Author: Jasmine Guy

• One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

  Author: Jasmine Guy

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

  Author: Steve Guttenberg

• I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.

  Author: Thom Gunn

• It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

  Author: Thom Gunn

• When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.

  Author: Thom Gunn

• I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.

  Author: Pam Grier

• Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.

  Author: Pam Grier

• Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

  Author: Pam Grier

• I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable.

  Author: John Glover

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

  Author: Gina Gershon

• Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

  Author: Boy George

• Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.

  Author: Boy George

• I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

  Author: Stephen Fry

• My mission, I guess, has always been the kind of world where lesbian and gay people can celebrate who we are with equal freedom, dignity, and respect.

  Author: John Fisher

• To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.

  Author: Harvey Fierstein

• I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

  Author: Siobhan Fahey

• I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.

  Author: Tracey Emin

• A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

  Author: Ralph Emerson

• I am not gay, I just like pearls.

  Author: Julian Eltinge

• Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.

  Author: Zac Efron

• There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.

  Author: John Edwards

• It's not being marketed as a gay show by a gay person. It's just Ellen DeGeneres.

  Author: Kyan Douglas

• I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it?

  Author: David Donald

• Without gay men, I am nothing.

  Author: Janice Dickinson

• 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!

  Author: Andy Dick

• If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.

  Author: Leonardo DiCaprio

• I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.

  Author: Ellen DeGeneres

• From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

  Author: Howard Dean

• Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

  Author: Judy Davis

• Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

  Author: Bette Davis

• Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.

  Author: Jack Davenport

• My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

  Author: Rodney Dangerfield

• I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists.

  Author: Harry Crosby

• When I first started editing GQ, it gave the impression of being, and in fact was, a gay magazine. There were female models in it and there were women on the cover, but the boys were always much, much more beautiful than the girls.

  Author: Art Cooper

• When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.

  Author: Bill Condon

• Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'.

  Author: George Colman

• I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

  Author: Kurt Cobain

• I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.

  Author: Kate Clinton

• We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.

  Author: Kate Clinton

• When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

  Author: Kate Clinton

• A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really.

  Author: Julian Clary

• I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly.

  Author: Julian Clary

• I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.

  Author: Julian Clary

• I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.

  Author: Julian Clary

• The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

  Author: Julian Clary

• I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.

  Author: Cher

• I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.

  Author: Mary Cheney

• In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

  Author: Mary Cheney

• 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.

  Author: Mary Cheney

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

  Author: Mary Cheney

• I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people.

  Author: Richard Chamberlain

• As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

  Author: Margaret Cavendish

• One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.

  Author: Dan Castellaneta

• I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

  Author: Ed Case

• I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

  Author: James Carville

• I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

  Author: Dana Carvey

• I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.

  Author: Tony Campolo

• The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.

  Author: Tony Campolo

• I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

  Author: Judith Butler

• I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

  Author: Corrine Brown

• It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

  Author: Russell Brand

• People have always said, are you gay? I've had a lot of that. But it's just not in me. I really like women a lot; I'm repulsed by men sexually.

  Author: Russell Brand

• Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

  Author: Zach Braff

• Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.

  Author: Malcolm Boyd

• 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.

  Author: Chastity Bono

• Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.

  Author: Earl Blumenauer

• I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.

  Author: Lionel Blue

• I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

  Author: Lionel Blue

• I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

  Author: Sandra Bernhard

• I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

  Author: Sandra Bernhard

• I want to make films that make a difference. I want to be out and hope that that will make things better for gay people and for myself. I hope one day I can start to make the kind of projects or be involved with kind of projects that can really make a difference.

  Author: Jill Bennett

• Outside of being an actress, I feel like being out is the biggest way that gay people can change perception. There are people that give millions of dollars to gay organizations but are closeted to their own families.

  Author: Jill Bennett

• People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

  Author: Jason Bateman

• I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay.

  Author: Jason Bateman

• Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.

  Author: Peter Bart

• I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.

  Author: Lynda Barry

• I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.

  Author: Ben Affleck

• Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!

  Author: Ben Affleck

• New Jersey is the first state in the country to agree to treat gay and unmarried couples the same as married couples.

  Author: Michael Adams

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