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- Nov 07, 2020
Gay Community Quotes
Visibility, acceptance, belonging.
These gay community quotes reflect on changing social acceptance over recent decades and on the weight of representing a community while knowing no single voice can speak for all of it.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan's first AIDS commission.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
We love trans women; all of us know that drag wouldn't be an art form without trans women. I know that, RuPaul knows that, everybody in the gay community knows that. Trans women have always been a part of and the face of drag. And I can guarantee trans women will always be a part of 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ru and I have been best friends since, well, let's just say they used the telegraph when we first met. Being able to work with my BFF is a dream come true and even more? To see what he has done for himself, the art of drag and the gay community in general constantly blows me away.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I moved to New York, the gay community welcomed me with open arms and told me how beautiful I was. I will never turn my back on them.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Watching AIDS play its evil game of give and take has made me understand why lobbying for increased research funding should be an urgent priority - not only for the gay community but for us all.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I probably wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for the gay community supporting me. I wouldn't be the artist I was today if it wasn't for that because that was the only community that let me try, let me perform without knowing who I was.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gay community has been so faithful and good to me.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1980s and the 1990s, when HIV hit its peak, the gay community was at the forefront of the fight against the silent killer.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gay community has had a sometimes tumultuous relationship with non-queer people coming to their shows because it was tourism, like using the queer spaces as a form of comic relief or entertainment.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020