Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen DeGeneres

What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?

Ellen DeGeneres

When the message out there is so horrible that, to be gay, you can get killed for it... we need to change the message!!

Ellen DeGeneres

If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that.

Ellen DeGeneres

We're told to go on living our lives as usual, because to do otherwise is to let the terrorists win, and really, what would upset the Taliban more than a gay woman wearing a suit in front of a room full of Jews?

Larry McMurtry

It's not going to threaten anybody's manhood going to see a movie in which there is gay sex.

These survey results show that, when it comes to new technology and media products, gay men and lesbians are quick to adapt.

Gene Robinson

doing a new thing in terms of its inclusion in terms of gay and lesbian people in the world and in the church.

Portia de 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

Portia de Rossi

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

NeNe Leakes

I'm for all kinds of gay rights. I'm almost like a gay man myself.

Neil Tennant

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

Neil Tennant

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.

Rachel Maddow

I'm in favor of outing when people have demonized or scapegoated gay people for their own public gain. I don't think just being a Republican is reason enough.

Rachel Maddow

Gay people exist. There's nothing we can do in public policy that makes more of us exist, or less of us exist. And you guys have been arguing for a generation that public policy ought to essentially demean gay people as a way of expressing disapproval of the fact that we exist, but you don't make any less of us exist. You just are arguing in favor of more discrimination, and more discrimination doesn't make straight people's lives any better.

Jodi Picoult

Gay rights to me that is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.

Jodi Picoult

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

John Green

In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.

Cassandra Clare

“ Turned you gay?” She sounded incredulous. “ Alec, you didn’ t tell me gay?” She sounded incredulous. “ Alec, you didn’ t tell me that.” “ I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider,” said Simon.

Cassandra Clare

Isabelle: All the boys are gay. In this van, anyway. Well, except for you, Simon. Simon: Glad you noticed. Magnus: I prefer to think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual. Alec: Please never say that in front of my parents.

Cassandra Clare

I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider.

Cassandra Clare

You're not gay, are you?" Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better.

Carly Rae Jepsen

I have so many gay friends that I love.

Moby

I'm straight, but I love going to house music clubs and flirting with women and gay men.

Mike Royko

If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning Anita Bryant to go on television and push orange juice?

Mika

In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.

Kirk Cameron

Do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.

Kirk Cameron

Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.

I definitely wouldn't be the performer I am today if the gay audience had not been so supportive of me as a complete unknown.

For a while I was a completely unknown artist with no fan base and no draw in the clubs. The only people that would give me a shot were the gay clubs. Gay clubs were so open to me coming in and trying things out.

Kathleen Turner

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

Kathleen Hanna

Gay marriage! That's a huge change and a huge win-win for feminism.

Julia Gillard

I'm on the record as saying things like I think it's important for people to understand their Bible stories, not because I'm an advocate of religion - clearly, I'm not - but once again, what comes from the Bible has formed such an important part of our culture.

Paul Bloom

The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.