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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to find a way to try and reconcile our beliefs - and Islam, like Judaism and Christianity, has traditionally seen homosexuality as a sin - with the reality of life in modern, pluralistic, secular societies in which gay people cannot be wished away or banished from sight.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're gay, that doesn't mean I want to discriminate against you, belittle or bully you, abuse or offend you. Not at all. I don't want to go back to the dark days of criminalisation and the imprisonment of gay men and women; of Section 28 and legalised discrimination.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not gay.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a one-off episode of 'The New Normal' for Ryan Murphy, and that was the first time I played a gay role.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a gay man in Hollywood, I certainly understand what it means to be in it but not of it, to be marginalized at times and kept out of certain clubs.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020