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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, almost, the film industry thinks that by making gay characters super masculine, it's an attempt at saying being gay is OK if you act like straight people. I don't think we should just have gay characters who are 100 percent femme, either. I just think it's about that mix and creating more diverse gay characters.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm okay with the path that I'm on, but it's fascinating to think, 'I could've been a gay guy in Key West. I could be working at an insurance company in Lansing. But somehow, this is what's happening.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to show straight men and gay men alike that self-care and grooming isn't mutually exclusive with, like, femininity or masculinity.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fellow band members don't discuss their loved ones, and I don't feel that just because I am gay, I should have to discuss mine!
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apparently, the prerequisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption 'I am gay'. I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected!
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when the band got back together in 2008, New Kids fans knew I was gay. Everyone did.
- Superhero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not gay, and I'm not a superhero.
- Lawyers
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral.
- Debatable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a voter initiative can deny gay people access to traditional representative, democratic processes, then in California, any other small, historically disadvantaged minority group can also be denied the right of representative.
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- Nov 07, 2020