Top 55 Gay Community Quotes

I’m always happy to support the gay community.

Ru and I have been best friends since, well, let’s just say they used the telegraph when we first met. Being able to work with my BFF is a dream come true and even more? To see what he has done for himself, the art of drag and the gay community in general constantly blows me away.

We have the luxury in the West of being able to say, ‘Yeah, absolutely, we’re progressive, we’ve moved forward with the gay community.’ We haven’t in a lot of other countries. My people from Pakistan – I know we haven’t moved forward.

It’s not the ’90s anymore. I think the gay community is a lot more accepted these days.

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.

There are certain performers that the gay community receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I’ve always responded to those same artists.

I’ve become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don’t like the position.

‘Glee’ is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don’t necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.

I say, ‘I’m bi, my love knows no gender,’ and the straight community says, ‘Oh right, that’s just a cover-up – you’re gay!’ And the gay community says, ‘Yeah right, that’s just a cover-up – you’re gay.’ They both want to push me gay.

Just because you are out doesn’t make you the poster boy for the gay community.

The gay community has taken care of their issues and problems in terms of HIV/AIDS. They have done an incredible job. We as heterosexuals need to learn from the gay community because they have rallied together. They have sent a lot of information out there. They go get tested.

I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can’t and shouldn’t be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering.

I think the word ‘twink’ is pejorative. There’s something endemic about the gay community where we praise masculinity more than anything else.

Watching AIDS play its evil game of give and take has made me understand why lobbying for increased research funding should be an urgent priority – not only for the gay community but for us all.

‘La Cage’ has got a broad appeal. It obviously appeals to the gay community, but it’s also a good, fun show that appeals across a broad audience, a great big mixture.

A lot of times I’ve reached my hand out to people in the gay community that just didn’t have nobody to help them when they were down and out.

I’m a heterosexual, married woman with children. I’m a mother who’s also a track mom, who cooks and cleans. And I just happen to be an ally for the gay community.

The thing about gay male pop stars is: they aren’t supported by gay men. Gay men don’t really support them until they’ve gone beyond the gay community and had success in the mainstream, so it’s really challenging.

Being a teenager, a gay teenager, in such a small village is not that much fun. I am part of the gay community and most gays have a similar story to mine.

I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan’s first AIDS commission.

The gay community hated me for being part of Odd Future. They thought Odd Future was homophobic because they tend to use homophobic slang, and they were like: ‘How can you work for and support homophobes?’ But they aren’t homophobic; they just don’t really care whether you’re offended or not.

I don’t like Mitt Romney. I wouldn’t vote for Mitt Romney in a million years. Mitt Romney is no ally of the gay community.

For a long time, gay men fought to be seen as different, doing our own thing: This is our lives; this is what we do. Accept it. There’s a conservatism that has come into the gay community: ‘We’re just like you, just like everyone else.’

I’ve been standing with and united with the gay community. I know so many gay men and women that homophobia is such a baffling thing for me.

I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word ‘marriage.’ Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.

I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.

If it was up to me, I would send the gay community, who insisted on celebrating in Jerusalem, to Sodom and Gomorrah.

The male gay community seems to be very into female singers. I think it could be the songs we sing. They’re more open with their feelings. And they have good taste!

Everyone in the gay community doesn’t think alike.

I don’t have any intention to be anti-gay or to persecute the gay community.

When I moved to New York, the gay community welcomed me with open arms and told me how beautiful I was. I will never turn my back on them.

A lot of people in my world – in the acting world – have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

Some people in the gay community were very upset with me for not coming out on their terms.

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don’t represent the entire gay community because it’s a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

In the 1980s and the 1990s, when HIV hit its peak, the gay community was at the forefront of the fight against the silent killer.

There isn’t a way to depict the gay community without at least mentioning the existence of online dating apps like Grindr.

I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words ‘gay community.’ Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.

When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

There were, and still are, a lot of different points of view in the gay community. It’s not everybody holding hands and singing ‘Kumbaya.’ People have very different perspectives.

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

The gay community has had a sometimes tumultuous relationship with non-queer people coming to their shows because it was tourism, like using the queer spaces as a form of comic relief or entertainment.

I’d say it’s even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We’re so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We’re all so different.

In all honesty, when you talk about ‘the gay community,’ you are talking about my community, haha.

I just live my life – but the support from the gay community is always fantastic. It’s really great because they are always the best people to always be around.

I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.

As I walk around, I have met 70-year-old women who live on the Upper West Side who love the show. And I met a couple in Kansas – a couple of truck drivers who drove around together – who loved it. It’s popular all over the place and definitely in the gay community.

What is astonishing is that globalised technology, like Whatsapp and Viber, really gives a lot of leeway to negotiating spaces and to keeping one’s identity. So people are able to be more receptive as a gay community to be part of an environment that is going to challenge the law.

If there are countries that discriminate against the gay community, they are the countries that I will not spend my own personal money. I will go for work there, but I will not spend my own money there. Why would I?

It’s daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

In my work with young Jewish adults in the gay community, I hear their stories of discrimination, of struggling for acceptance, of feeling invisible not for what they have done but simply for who they are.

So many people in the gay community have always asked me to come out, say it like it is, and help our cause. But for me… I think my biggest statement I could give to the world is to be strong being myself… you have to make something of yourself, and that’s what makes us strong.

I think you could say L.A. has a bit of a cookie-cutter gay community.