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Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for — in other words, cheered on — by people who feel different.
Sep 10, 2025
Am I proud of being straight? No. You know why? Because if I start acting proud, that's going to make me seem kind of gay.
When the message out there is so horrible that, to be gay, you can get killed for it... we need to change the message!!
If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that.
You can't just put gay in a little gay box anymore.
A dreamcatcher works, if your dream is to be gay.
Nor did Americans believe that Republicans had been waging war on minorities, women, or gays - especially given that Republicans have held the House only since 2011 and have been out of power in the Senate and presidency since 2009.
When I'm really hot, I can walk into a room and if a man doesn't look at me, he's probably gay.
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!
I'm a black, gay woman. I think the only way to make the GOP hate me more is if I sent them a video of me rolling around on a pile of welfare checks.
I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay.
I'm repulsed at the concept of man-on-man sex, I think it's against nature, I think it's strange as hell, but if that's what you are, I love you. I'm not going to judge people's morals. I say live and let live.
Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.
If you can't run, and the plays in front of you, you just can't get gay.
I'm a veteran, and I've earned the right to be heard. I'll lead by example and show that gay players are no different from straight ones. I'm not the loudest person in the room, but I'll speak up when something isn't right. And try to make everyone laugh.
My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people.
I refer to myself as gay, but I’m married to a man.
How do you explain to someone who thinks you're the devil incarnate, that you're really not?
You don't have to be gay to be a supporter- you just have to be a human.
Gay and lesbian relationships operate on essentially the same principles as heterosexual relationships
To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.
I'm not gay, but I'm still the kind of guy where, even though you have no chance, they still want to hang around me so you can get a good mental image and jerk off to me later.
When I first moved to L.A., I thought about turning gay. Then I realized none of the guys I was interested in was good enough for me.
I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.
I'm not gay, a lotta people think I'm gay. I have a girlfriend. She thinks I'm gay.
Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
The Bible is to gays what Mein Kampf is to Jews.
I am not gay. I never have been gay.
My truth is that I am a gay American.
If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.
My objection is not that it's pro-gay but that it appears to be anti-marriage.
I am gay. I am proud. And God loves me without reservation.
I'm not gay, and I'm not a superhero.
The Bible says gays arent natural. What, and a talking snake is?!
I would have loved to have had a gay dad. At school, there were always kids saying 'my dad is bigger than your dad, my dad will batter your dad!' So what? My dad will shag your dad..and your dad will enjoy it.
Gay individuals should be able to adopt.
I was trying to point out I'm not opposed to gays having their partnership. I'm opposed to gays using the term marriage for their relationship.
You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favourite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee.
We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill.... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick.
I would not compromise my principles for politics. You're saying, will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having? If it does, so be it. I don't compromise my principles for politics.
I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated all my homosexual patients are quite sick - to which I finally replied so are all my heterosexual patients.
Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.
Fundamentalist Christianity is not just a threat to lesbians and gays, but to all Americans who cherish democracy and the rights and protections guaranteed us by the U.S. constitution.
I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells.
One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.
Everyone knows if a Republican comes out of the closet and sees a gay shadow, it means six more years of a Democratic administration.
I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.