Gay Pride Quotes

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.

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

I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of that pain.

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

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.

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

He's trying to do info-tainment. He doesn't really want to talk about trans issues, he wants to sensationalize my life and not really talk about the work that I do and what the purpose of me writing this book was about.

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

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

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay

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.

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

Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start.

If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.

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

The Kinsey Institute says gay men have bigger sex organs. Hence the origin of gay pride.

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

I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.

I'm Michael Sam, I'm a football player, and I'm gay.

I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.

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

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.

I think everyone should be with who they love. I don't want to be controversial or stir up a bunch of trouble but people are going to love who they are going to love. I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals. Ha ha ha!

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 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.

Homosexuality is a cause, much like a religion. What is the philosophy behind gay pride parades? The same philosophy that there is behind Muslim demonstrations! Show of force and promotion of the ethos! Homosexuals promote their lifestyle much like religionists promote their religion. I suppose they realize that the bigger is their number, the more political clout they can wield.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

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.

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

God says, 'One woman, one man,' and everyone says, 'Oh, that's old hat, that's that old Bible stuff,'" he said. "But I'm thinking, well let's see now. A clean guy - a disease-free guy and a disease-free woman - they marry and they keep their sex between the two of them. They're not going to get chlamydia, and gonorrhea, and syphilis, and AIDS. It's safe.

Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.

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

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.

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

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

I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it.

To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood.

Gay pride's beautiful. If somebody needs to be expressing that, then it's a positive thing.

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

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.'

Exclusion of just one class of citizens from receiving a marriage license based upon the perceived 'threat' they pose to the marital institution is, at bottom, an arbitrary exclusion based upon the majority's disapproval of the defined class. It is also insulting to same-sex couples, who are human beings capable of forming loving, committed, enduring relationships.

My mom blames California for me being a lesbian. Everything was fine until you moved out there. That's right, Mom, we have mandatory lesbianism in West Hollywood. The Gay Patrol busted me, and I was given seven business days to add a significant amount of flannel to my wardrobe.

If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.

My mom will never march in a gay pride parade with a big sign. She is very private. She lives in Chattanooga. She tries so hard to understand me and my life. But she said to me once, "Leslie, if I live to be 105 I'll never understand this need you have to air your dirty laundry. Why can't you just whisper it to a therapist?!" She doesn't understand.

This is an effort to have government coerce, force speech and behavior. And it's being pushed and advocated by the gay community. This is their ultimate goal. It's to not allow for diversity of opinion on this issue, because they don't want to be celebrated, they want to force everyone to not only agree with them but also have to finance their agenda.

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

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

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.