Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Kinison

In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

Sheryl Swoopes

Being gay has nothing to do with the three gold medals or the three MVPs or the four championships I've won. I'm still the same person. I'm Sheryl.

Sheryl Swoopes

Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life,

Shigeru Miyamoto

If we end up creating a gameplay structure where it makes sense for, whether it's a female to go rescue a male or a gay man to rescue a lesbian woman or a lesbian woman to rescue a gay man, we might take that approach.

Sheila Kuehl

Whenever a society wants to demonize a particular group, it prohibits them from marrying.

Sharon Gless

When people have asked me in the past if I'm gay, I've said "I'm not gay, but I'm festive."

Neil Patrick Harris

I'm wildly impressed with the diversity of gay roles.

Neil Patrick Harris

You can't just put gay in a little gay box anymore.

Neil Patrick Harris

Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love.

Natalie Maines

I'm definitely always drawn to the injustice of people who have been imprisoned for things they didn't do. But also lots about abortion and gay marriage. Civil issues are usually what I am drawn to.

Natalie Merchant

I've had a large gay following for many years and have been quite aware of that.

Natalie Portman

Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that?

Talib Kweli

There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.

Tony Abbott

I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.

Simone de Beauvoir

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

Tony Kushner

If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.

Tony Kushner

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

Tony Kushner

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.

Tony Kushner

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.

Tony Kushner

One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.

Tony Campolo

The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.

Tommy Kirk

I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies

Tommy Lasorda

My son wasn't gay. No way.

Steve Camp

Gay marriage within mainline denominations is gaining traction. Skewed pastors and even the government can't trump the Bible on this issue. Pastors: stand!

Sigmund Freud

It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

Tim Gunn

If I think about most of America, and maybe I'm terribly wrong...but I think most of America would say that they're not in favor of gay marriage. But there is certainly a large cohort, not a majority but a large number of people, who are articulate and vocal and they'd rally behind this. They're making their opinion known.

Tila Tequila

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

Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.

Richard Chamberlain

I am not a romantic leading man anymore so I don't need to nurture that public image anymore. I can talk about it now because I'm not afraid anymore . . . When I grew up, being gay, being sissy or anything like that, was verboten. I disliked myself intensely and feared this part of myself intensely, and had to hide it and became 'Perfect Richard, All-American Boy' as a place to hide.

Richard Chamberlain

Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out.

Red Buttons

Ben Hur, who said to his sister Ben Him, We'd better swap names before they start calling me Ben Gay! Never got a dinner!

Victoria Wood

Everyone I meet is gay, married or crackers

Victoria Jackson

It's in the Bible. God created it. He did not create gay marriage. He created man and woman marriage -- duh!