Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bayard Rustin

Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination. The new ‘niggers’ are gays. It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change. The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people.

Bayard Rustin

Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will help you. I think the gay community has a moral obligation to continue the fight.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay ...

Barbara Ehrenreich

You still don't like the idea of gay marriage? Then, as my friend the economist Julianne Malveaux says: Don't marry a gay person. Case closed, problem solved.

Bruce Springsteen

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

Brian Schweitzer

If you were just a regular person, you turned on the TV, and you saw Eric Cantor talking, I would say—and I'm fine with gay people, that's all right—but my gaydar is 60-70 percent. But he's not, I think, so I don't know. Again, I couldn't care less. I'm accepting.

Brad Pitt

Equality, absolutely, that's what defines us. It's what makes us great. If it doesn't sit well with your religion, let your God sort it out in the end, but that's us. We're equal

Brad Pitt

Gay marriage is inevitable. The next generation, they get it. It is just a matter of time before it becomes a reality.

Janice Dickinson

Without gay men, I am nothing.

Janet Jackson

It's two people that are in love with one another. What's the issue?

There are some people who don't want to think about teenagers having sex at all, in real life or in literature, ... Some parents don't want their kids reading about gay and lesbian characters.

Ben Folds

I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.

Cameron Monaghan

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

Cameron Monaghan

You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.

Dolly Parton

Having a big gay following, I get hate mail and threats.

I am hopeful we shall learn from one another and about one another, as a gay man and a gay pastor.

Adam Carolla

Wearing Crocs is like getting blown by a dude. It feels great until you look down and realize you're gay.

Andrew Marvell

My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass.

Amy Ray

The only thing I have going on at a personal level is just the way I knew I was gay and I knew what that meant inside me, but the gender aspect of who I am came later.

Amy Ray

People that are much younger in areas that are much more, kind of, disenfranchised, I guess, as far as the gay movement goes, they still have a language that they've discovered around things. And they have a vocabulary to use, and they have a way to express themselves even when they're not accepted.

Amy Poehler

During an interview with Katie Couric Tuesday, Sarah Palin says she is not opposed to gay people, adding 'One of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years happens to be gay and I love her dearly and she doesn't exist.'

Anthony Jeselnik

I think my friend Jeff is gay. I don't know - I'm so bad with names.

Ann Coulter

It’s often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isn’t it possible that people obsessed with racism are themselves racist.

Ann Coulter

That is [liberalism's] goal - to destroy the family [liberals] just made up this gay marriage thing gays are natural conservatives.

Ann Coulter

They spent the night in jail, where their progressive views on gay marriage served them well.

Ann Coulter

We didn't raise this issue, the courts raised it. The courts jammed it down our throats, at the risk of insulting any of my gay male fans.

Ann Coulter

Faggot isn't offensive to gays; it's got nothing to do with gays.

Andy Dick

Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!

Andy Cohen

I've been gay since the day I was born.

Doug Stanhope

I immediately split the crowd. I thought about coming on every night and shouting, Gay pride, white power! just to confuse people.

Colin Powell

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

Daniel Radcliffe

What I love about the gay thing is that every single person I type into Google, it doesn't matter if it's Florence Welch, anybody, if you are not being called gay you don't have a career. That's my theory!

Daniel Radcliffe

A gay murder movie is never going to be, like, breaking box office records.