Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Folds

I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.

Alan Dershowitz

The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed.

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.

Bret Easton Ellis

The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off.

Boy George

I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.

Boy George

A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.

Bruce Vilanch

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

Andrew Solomon

The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.

T. R. Knight

I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.

Tim Gunn

If I think about most of America, and maybe I'm terribly wrong...but I think most of America would say that they're not in favor of gay marriage. But there is certainly a large cohort, not a majority but a large number of people, who are articulate and vocal and they'd rally behind this. They're making their opinion known.

Roger Stone

You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.

Tony Kushner

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.

Steve Coogan

I think we all have a slightly gay gene inside us, don't we? It might be 0.00001 per cent as mine is, or one per cent as yours is.

Stephen Fry

The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.

Russell Simmons

I've been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I'm a big supporter.

Stephen Colbert

If you are a hermaphrodite, it is physically impossible to be gay.

Stephen Colbert

If God wanted us to accept gays, he'd have made us compassionate

Tammy Baldwin

There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it's simply the way things are.

John Waters

Yeah, I know I should be fighting for gay rights, but who wants to join the army or get married anyway?

Michele Bachmann

If you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.

Mariah Carey

If two people want to get married, it's their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of happiness

Robert Burton

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.

Gary Numan

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.

Gwen Ifill

No parent should be denied from their Scouting - their son's Scouting experience simply because those parents happen to be gay.

Jay Leno

President Bush said he was 'troubled' by gay people getting married in San Francisco. He said on important issues like this the people should make the decision, not judges. Unless of course we're choosing a president, then he prefers judges.

Horace

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

Jai Rodriguez

I've done the gay, over-the-top guy. I want to jump into another show where I wear pants for the majority of the time.

Imelda Marcos

Our opponent [Cory Aquino] does not put on any make up. She does not have her fingernails manicured. You know gays. They are for beauty. Filipinos who like beauty, love and God are for Marcos.

Elton John

So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating.

Wanda Sykes

I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman. And I'm proud to be gay.

Mila Kunis

When gay people can get married, then I'll get married.

Jose Antonio Vargas

One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name.

Kevin Rudd

If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage,