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I’m gay, and I know a lot of very liberal straight people, and, of course, they’re absolutely fine, but they still won’t necessarily come and see a film like ‘Weekend.’
Seriously I just don’t get why straight people are so afraid of the fact that gay people can get married.
I don’t care what straight people do, I don’t care what gay people do. I don’t care what nobody do. That’s they business. I just care about what I do. You know what I’m saying?
I think it’s so funny because straight people just don’t think about gender in their songs, or making a statement by talking about love.
That is just the reality of being a marginalized person in this country: you have to deal with the psychological impact of your oppressor – whether that’s being a woman dealing with men or gay people dealing with straight people or trans people dealing with everybody else.
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!
I hear from all different people, not just people like me, or lesbians. It be straight people, it be grown men, it be grown women, people that have been sick or depressed that say, ‘Oh, you made me want to go do what I want to do for myself and chase my dreams.’ That’s my purpose.
After high school, I really learned to love myself. I finally stopped getting bullied by straight people. Then, I pretty much immediately started getting tormented by gay people for my taste in music.
I think this is the funny thing about PWR BTTM that a lot of people don’t realize at first, which is that straight people have always loved us – inexplicably, seemingly.
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.
We need a brand as a party that says we’re the party that are going to help working-class people, white people, black people, brown people, gay people, straight people, improve opportunity for them to grow their wages, to have security, economic security.
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
‘Looking’ was always a niche show for a niche within a niche. It’s a gay-themed show, so you’re not going to get millions of straight people watching it – that’s the inevitability of it.
I feel sorry for straight people.
Straight people are everywhere!
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.
There’s straight people, and there’s super gay people, and then there’s everybody in between, and everybody is a little bit of something because sexuality is fluid.
I used to listen to so many song bands that were all straight people, and my thinking on it was, ‘Well, if I can kind of suspend my own perception of myself and listen to Rivers Cuomo singing about girls, then I don’t see why a straight guy can’t listen to a band called PWR BTTM.’
I think we’re realizing that gay people are able to do the type of comedy that we just assumed was for straight people over the years. Whatever old boundaries there were, which were very real and still have an effect on us, in the way we socialize, I think that’s slowly becoming less important.
Straight people love to steal from drag queens. It happens all the time.
That’s the whole point of my trying to achieve success in mainstream pop – to have straight people sing to my music that has a ‘she’ pronoun in it.
It’s ridiculous that people aren’t allowed to love who they love, have families, and have the same life as straight people. It’s infuriating.
I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don’t believe I’m any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don’t look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It’s just an orientation.
I know gay – gay people who aren’t married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married.
The ability for employment benefits to be shared among spouses, the ability to move people who are dependent on visas for trailing spouses, all hinges on being able to deal with families of gay people in the same way that you deal with families of straight people. Otherwise, they can’t move around.
