Top 33 Gay Rights Quotes

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it’s Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women’s rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

Darling, I want my gay rights now.

If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women’s rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don’t have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.

Gay rights is just one of the social issues I’m interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.

Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get right on gay rights.

Gay rights and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about.

A lot of attention has been going to social values – abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues – but economic values are equally important.

I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.

As I got more into gay rights, I got more into equal pay, and you just see that it’s all connected. You can’t really speak out on one thing and not another without it not being the full picture.

The more I’ve been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that it all intersects. You can’t really pick it apart. It’s all intertwined.

If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn’t have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

There was a point in the latter 1990s at which, suddenly, every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay or lesbian character or couple. That was good news as a voucher of the success of the gay rights movement, but it still grew a bit tiresome: ‘Look at us! Our show is so hip, one of the characters is homosexual!’

Protests, such as those in favor of labor rights, women’s suffrage, civil rights and gay rights, helped to make America as great as it is.

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

I’m a gay rights supporter. I’m a human-rights campaign initiative person.

Gay rights are human rights.

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

Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can’t see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.

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

Israel has some of the best restaurants in the world, has some of the best entertainment in the world, is one of the most tolerant nations in the world – gay rights, minority rights. These are aspects of Israel people are not aware of.

Gay rights are not primarily marriage rights, and for the millions who live in unaccepting places with no resources, dignity remains elusive. I am lucky to have forged meaning and built identity, but that’s still a rare privilege. And gay people deserve more, collectively, than the crumbs of justice.

There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

While the reigning stereotype is that Republicans are opposed to gay rights, growing Republican support in state-by-state fights belies this perception.

Civil rights and women’s rights and gay rights all take time in this country.

What Russia really needs is not gay rights but human rights, and the rule of law.

I’m saying it loud: I’m a Republican who supports gay rights.

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

For historic reasons – principally the political Right’s opposition to gay rights – most gay spokespeople continue to think that the political Right is the sole locale from which anti-gay sentiment can come.

I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.

I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It’s hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.

I’m not a gay rights activist.