I have no problem with any gay group that says they’re Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.
Being gay isn’t something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.
President Clinton not only benefits by gay and lesbian votes, but he benefits by showing the nation that he is a strong leader who implements his beliefs, who stands firm by those who he believes are being treated unfairly, and I think people respect that kind of leadership in the country.
I think I should be described as ‘bi’ – not bisexual, because I’m not – I’m gay – but ‘binational’ because I retain British nationality, and I add to it being Australian, which is like having your cake and eating it.
For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
I don’t think anyone wants to be gay.
Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
I think it’s great now that we seem to be in an era where it’s OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society.
I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I’d like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I’m gay isn’t the most interesting part of me.
I’m not gay, but I don’t think you have to be gay to have a gay hero. Growing up, Alan Turing was certainly mine. I’m also not the greatest mathematician of my generation. We have lots of biographical differences, but nonetheless, I always identified with him so much.
I would say that I’m a feminist theorist before I’m a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.
Any Democratic statement of core beliefs about the importance of families must include all our families, gay and straight. Our party has a long tradition of leading the charge on important questions of justice.
I would love if gay men responded to me. All I want is for many gay men to dress up as me for Halloween.
Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
We encrypt ‘Drag Race’ with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the ’80s.
My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he’d met when I came out to him were corpses.
There’s nothing set in stone – some people perceive it as Will could be gay, asexual or whatever. Or, like how I see it, he was stuck in the Upside Down, and he was away for so long that all of his friends started growing up while he was in this other world.
How could anyone like me for my true self? Being gay, disabled, loud and funny was too much in one 5ft person.
Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don’t know and can’t articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.
I think there’s too many gay jokes in comedy and not enough honest explorations of sexuality.
I don’t think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I’m gay.
I’m not gay – everybody thinks I am – but I dig ‘The L Word.’
The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.
The way I would choose to identify myself wouldn’t be gay. I’ve been attracted mostly to ‘she’s’ but I’ve been with many people and I’m open to love wherever it can be found.
Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they’re gay or lesbian.
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
In 1978, when I thought of creating a flag for the gay movement, there was no other international symbol for us than the pink triangle, which the Nazis used to identify homosexuals in concentration camps. Even though the pink triangle was and still is a powerful symbol, it was very much forced upon us.
Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I’m gay: well, the fact that I’m flamboyantly gay.
While I don’t often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have ‘chosen’ is to be in a gay relationship.
The novel space is a pure space. I’m nobody once I go into that room. I’m not gay, I’m not bald, I’m not Irish. I’m not anybody. I’m nobody. I’m the guy telling the story, and the only person that matters is the person reading that story, the target. It’s to get that person to feel what I’m trying to dramatize.
Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as ‘gay’? If we don’t, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.
Most of the longer-term relationships I’ve known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer.
All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove.
I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.
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.
If my kid came to me and said ‘I’m gay,’ I’d say, ‘Son, I love you.’
I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite – guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.
I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.
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.
For some strange reason, my gay life didn’t get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.
West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend.
I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have love in your life, you can be a contributing member of society and you can be respected – I think that’s it.
I’m not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can’t help it if they were born that way.
Everyone’s journey as a gay man or woman is different; it’s personal.
The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date.
I don’t believe in organized religion – I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.
I won’t be in gay parades – I don’t think they need them. I believe in class – I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
The term ‘new queer cinema’ and the films of mine that were associated with that term are from a very, very different time, one almost entirely defined by the AIDS era. It was a very different social and cultural regard for the lives, the experiences, the worth of gay people.
Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.
I’d rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can’t play.
Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren’t allowed to get married in most parts of America. I’d go on a march for gay rights any time.
I often laugh and say I should go down to the Department of the Interior and register as an endangered species. I’m a gay man over 60 and I’m alive.
I wore a cloak for many years, I had long hair, I may have had a drop earring for a week and I fancied myself as a philosopher poet but was somewhere more in the gay female leisure pirate.
I’m not afraid to tell the world who I am. I’m Michael Sam: I’m a college graduate. I’m African American, and I’m gay. I’m comfortable in my skin.
I love my gay fans. Gay people are always usually my best friends in the whole world. I completely adore them.
I’m not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies.
The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.
I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it’s about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I’ve always been comfortable with being gay.
I think that there’s no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.
