- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gay Quotes
On identity, belonging and the case for equality.
These gay quotes touch on media representation, the meaning of chosen family, and calls for full civil equality regardless of orientation. See related reflections in our Community quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've all been watching stories about heterosexuals forever... As a gay kid, you are always having to translate. You are always having to pretend like you are one of the other characters. You're not seeing your life accurately reflected.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life's not about being gay - although one could argue I'm pretty professionally gay - but that's not how I experience life. Being gay is a profound part of who I am, but it isn't all of who I am.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think effeminacy is something that's really important to talk about in the context of gay media representations and in terms of the gay experience at large.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There definitely has been this kind of Hollywood swing back from the pendulum of, 'OK, we're gonna do gay people; we're gonna do queens.' And then it's like, 'No, no, no queens. Queen is too much.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never been in favor of gay marriage, and I am not in favor of gay marriage.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I view marriage as a sacred institution. I think two men naturally are predators. Gay relationships are a commercial break, not a whole movie.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being gay isn't something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peter Jennings came to us and said to make a PSA, 'Let's Talk About AIDS.' But I was naive about how the virus is contracted - until Magic Johnson came out. I'd stereotyped it, thinking it was a gay disease, a white man's disease.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.
- Map
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have put gay dating on the map.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020