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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
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering.
- Bisexual
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was this guy, he must have been young, who told me on Twitter: 'CupcakKe, I just told my mom I'm gay and I'm getting kicked out.' And it just hit home. I automatically replied, 'If you need a hotel, I'll pay for it. Let me make sure you're OK.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that, as a bisexual, sometimes people who are gay or lesbian look down upon the bisexual community as well and assume that people who are bisexual just don't know what they want or are just playing both sides of the fence, and that's not the case, either.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is very, very important that people understand that you can tell different kinds of stories, and they do, related to gay and lesbian issues - especially when you know the people behind them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel, in the sense that if you're heterosexual, if you're bisexual, if you're gay, if you're a lesbian, if you're transgender, whatever the vibe is, that's what you represent. I've always found it quite strange that we always like to try and define people and say this is how it is, and this is how it should be.
- Nov 07, 2020
The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that gay men in particular need to just listen to bisexual people and believe them when they say they're attracted to different genders.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's really important to acknowledge that gay men and straight men can be friends.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gay community has had a sometimes tumultuous relationship with non-queer people coming to their shows because it was tourism, like using the queer spaces as a form of comic relief or entertainment.
- Misunderstanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a common misunderstanding, that when a bisexual person is dating someone of the opposite sex that they are now straight, or if they are dating someone of the same sex they are now gay.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020