Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gore Vidal

I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.

Gore Vidal

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

Gore Vidal

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Gina Gershon

Lately, I've been a little sad that I'm not a gay man

Harvey Milk

I would like to see every gay doctor come out, every gay lawyer, every gay architect come out, stand up and let that world know. That would do more to end prejudice overnight than anybody would I urge them to do that, urge them to come out. Only that way will we start to achieve our rights.

Harvey Milk

I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target or the potential target for a person who is insecure, terrified, afraid, or very disturbed with themselves.

Harvey Milk

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

Harvey Milk

It takes no compromise to give people their rights

Harvey Milk

I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into something positive, so that two, three, four, five hundred will step forward, so the gay doctors will come out, the gay lawyers, the gay judges, gay bankers, gay architects I hope that every professional gay will say 'enough', come forward and tell everybody, wear a sign, let the world know. Maybe that will help.

Harvey Milk

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

James Blunt

We see differences in people and seem to be afraid of people. The black or white or gay or straight - I don't necessarily look for differences but for similarities. We need to be looking out for each other.

Jai Rodriguez

I consider myself gay because at the end of the night, that's who I want to cuddle with. But when I go out, I go to straight clubs.

Jai Rodriguez

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.

Jai Rodriguez

I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.

Jai Rodriguez

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

Jai Rodriguez

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.

Iris Apfel

I'm delighted that gay people want to get married and I say why not! It's nobody's business and I would happily give my blessing.

Elton John

Make this man a saint now, OK?

Elton John

I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

Elton John

Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

Elton John

We have a society where every hit maker and TV presenter is gay.

Elton John

So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating.

Elton John

You know, it's a very treatable disease. You shouldn't feel ashamed. But I'm afraid that's carried on very much so from the first days of AIDS, when it was basically a gay disease. And then, of course, you know, it affected everybody.

Elton John

I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going, ban all the artists coming in from Russia? But then you're really leaving the men and women who are gay and suffering under the antigay laws in an isolated situation. As a gay man, I can't leave those people on their own without going over there and supporting them. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've got to go.

Ellen DeGeneres

Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I'm openly gay.

George Weinberg

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

George Weinberg

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

Jill Bennett

Outside of being an actress, I feel like being out is the biggest way that gay people can change perception. There are people that give millions of dollars to gay organizations but are closeted to their own families

Jill Bennett

I want to make films that make a difference. I want to be out and hope that that will make things better for gay people and for myself. I hope one day I can start to make the kind of projects or be involved with kind of projects that can really make a difference

Jesse Jackson

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

Jennifer Lopez

Coming up, at 89 years old, acclaimed sculptor Gerson Frank was finally able to marry his longtime partner, Bill. Their relationship has covered three decades and seen many changes in gay rights, but Gerson never viewed himself as an activist.

James Carville

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.