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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
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
My book, 'Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,' is a gay love story. It's also a story about friendship. Quite honestly, it's also probably a 320-page product placement for Oreos.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is no universal gay experience. All stories are relevant, and all stories are needed.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that 'Love, Simon' is doing that hasn't been done before is it's a gay teen rom-com with a mainstream wide release and the backing of a studio that previous gay rom-coms have not had. I'm really excited by that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
These kids at the Ali Forney Center are literally dumped by their families because of the fact that they are lesbian, gay, or transgender - this organization really is saving lives.
- Minority
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
- Great Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020