Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madonna Ciccone

When I first came up, the whole AIDS epidemic was starting, and the gay community that I experienced from the beginning of my career was mostly - and overwhelmingly - concerned with staying alive. And, also, I felt really aware of the preciousness of life and time. The gay community and people who were HIV-positive were treated so badly, and I was very disturbed by things. But I also saw a lot of love and connection in the gay community at that time.

Madonna Ciccone

I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body.

Madonna Ciccone

I think after time goes by and you earn certain rights or you break through certain barriers, you could sometimes, maybe, take it for granted what you have now that you didn't have before. And then that would lead to a certain lack of community, in a way, caring in a way, that I saw before [in gay society].

Maajid Nawaz

I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.

Louis Garrel

Because if I were gay, [and] I'm not gay yet — maybe one day — but if I were gay, I'd like to see movies where homosexuality isn't always a problem.

Lorna Luft

A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.

Liza Minnelli

Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for — in other words, cheered on — by people who feel different.

Method Man

How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?

Method Man

I don't think any gay dude is gangsta, period.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be.

Neil Abercrombie

There are several states where you can get married. But I think I can say without fear of contradiction, 'Paradise awaits.' We'll be happy to welcome you. And if you do get married in another state, think about honeymooning in Hawaii.

Ned Rorem

Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.

Nathan Lane

People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me

Nathan Lane

There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all

Mitt Romney

As a result of [my campaign's] discussions and other interactions with gay and lesbian voters across the state, I am more convinced than ever that as we seek to establish full equality for America's gay and lesbian citizens, I will provide more effective leadership than Ted Kennedy.

Mike Piazza

I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.

Portia de Rossi

I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.

Portia de Rossi

I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!

Portia de Rossi

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

Portia de Rossi

Thanks so much, everybody, for making gay marriage legal, thank you for everything you've done-I'm just going to walk through that door

Portia de Rossi

I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it

Portia de Rossi

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

NeNe Leakes

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

Kristen Stewart

I think in three or four years, there are going to be a whole lot more people who don't think it's necessary to figure out if you're gay or straight. It's like, just do your thing.

Omari Hardwick

When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man.

Oprah Winfrey

I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.

Oliver Goldsmith

Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Marc Bolan

Some people think because I wear makeup that I am gay. But one thing has nothing to do with the other.

Ken Mehlman

Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans,

Ken Livingstone

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.

Ken Livingstone

I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.

Ken Livingstone

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

Margaret Cho

People like Sean Penn, he is someone that is politically progressive and yet is still at the top of his game in the industry. So I love that he is out there just virtually shaming all the people that voted for Prop 8. He was a really great example of a straight ally, someone who used his talent and used his ability to further our cause, not just for political progressiveness but also specifically for gay marriage and specifically for Harvey Milk's entire life.