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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
I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
- Freshman Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay Men's Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.
- 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.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
- Each Man
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- Nov 07, 2020