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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a gay person, I'm used to speaking on gay issues. As a black person, I'm used to speaking on black issues.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.
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I didn't know what gay was until I lived in New York for 10 years. You know, I was just underexposed in that regard.
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My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among rather than upon his thick black locks. His back seemed as broad as that of an elephant, and with his slow, sure, resolute step, he was like a mountain in motion.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
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I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.
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I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.
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- Nov 07, 2020