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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
- Effecting
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- Nov 07, 2020
American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the '50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character's committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or 'turning' heterosexual.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judaism doesn't recognize gay marriage, just as we don't recognize milk and meat together as kosher, and nothing will change it... I'm not a hypocrite; I state my positions.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lively and gay by nature.
- Epidemic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read that a lot of people think I'm gay. I don't care. My boyfriend and I are not really phased by what people say.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who they were.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard to be unhappy in a gay bar where everyone's singing show tunes! In fact, I've spent many a night in those kind of places - in that particular place, actually - Marie's Crisis: it's truly a New York establishment.
- Central Park
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sister gave my two-and-a-half year old this book called 'And Tango Makes Three,' about the gay penguin couple at the Central Park Zoo. They cared for an orphan egg 'til it hatched and then raised the baby penguin as their own. I cannot get through this book without copious amounts of tears and snot running down my face.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only real shaming I've ever experienced has been from other gay people when I reveal my politics or my religion.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I saw a restaurant owner refuse to serve a gay couple, I wouldn't eat there anymore. As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020