I didn't choose to be gay; I was chosen. 'Are you serious? I get to be queer? Oh, thank you. I didn't… — Suzanne Westenhoefer Copy Share Image
President Obama says he wants to put an end to the policy, 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' Yeah, in the military. This is… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term 'bisexual' is not only serviceable, but it is sufficient. And… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
After high school, I really learned to love myself. I finally stopped getting bullied by straight people. Then, I pretty much immediately… — Bowen Yang Copy Share Image
“Westboro Baptist Church: STOP. Stop protesting the funerals of our soldiers who died in action because you are anti-gay. When one of… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world... As a gay man I feel very strongly about… — Boy George Copy Share Image
No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
“I've had more difficulty accepting myself as bisexual than I ever did accepting that I was a lesbian. It felt traitorous. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I care more about a 15-year-old queer kid in Iowa who wants to know that there's anything out there that resembles their… — Liv Bruce Copy Share Image
What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known… — Jim Kolbe Copy Share Image
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on… — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
It's important to come out to yourself first and be comfortable with it. After that, I feel it's important to surround yourself… — EJ Johnson Copy Share Image
I've had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn't… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
I didn't come out for 21 years because I thought that everything I wanted to do with my life - have a… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
Most Russians believe they've never met an LGBT person in their lives. Also they immediately see LGBT people as 'other,' lending to… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, "How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?" He answered, "All… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“You’re a queer?” “That’s exactly what I am. I didn’t choose to be.” After a while Woody put his arm around Chuck’s… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's no specific punishment in the books of fiqh (Islamic laws) that relate to homosexuality per se. They apply to any illicit… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
“An Otaku who says your gay, is not an Otaku. An Otaku who says a certain anime sucked, it not an Otaku.… — SilvyHarmonix Copy Share Image
If there are countries that discriminate against the gay community, they are the countries that I will not spend my own personal… — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
I just got back from New York. You ever been there? There was a big gay parade going on there when I… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I have never infected anybody, and it's too late for the head people to do anything about me now. Gay is good.… — Merle Miller Copy Share Image
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
“Straight people don't have to think every time they talk, about whether they are coming out. We do. That might be hard,… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays… — iO Tillett Wright Copy Share Image
I've known I was gay since I was young, I think. And I mean young - like, young - like 5 or… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
If I woke up to my morning Daily Mail and saw the headline on the back page 'I am gay' and an… — Chris Sutton Copy Share Image
I spent many years trying to fit in and do things the way I thought I was supposed to - trying to… — John Grant Copy Share Image
My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate… — James Alison Copy Share Image
“It was only months after my time with Haaken that I realized he also didn’t care whether I was gay or not.… — Charles Benedict Copy Share Image
As important as the father is in the life of a child, even he must take second place to mother during the… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
The key emotion, when you grow up gay, lesbian, bi, trans, is shame. We chose what places we went to, chose the… — John Whaite Copy Share Image
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