There's a whole gay culture in DC, and there are as many…

I do think there are very few extreme right-wing gay Republicans. Although it depends how you define "extreme right-wing." They're making a political calculation.

— Kirby Dick

The Republican base - the Evangelical get-out-the-vote troops - are going to be devastated when they discover how many closeted gay Republicans were involved…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Gay Republicans, how exactly does that work? 'We disapprove of our own lifestyle. We beat ourselves up in parking lots.'

— Paula Poundstone

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive…

— Lance Loud

I feel that gay people not being able to get married for generations, forever, meant that we came up with alternative ways of recognizing…

— Rachel Maddow

Once I was embraced by gay culture, I finally started to feel I was fitting in. I was understood by those people in a…

— Roisin Murphy

In gay culture hookups are a way of escaping your class.

— Hank Azaria

I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on…

— Rita Mae Brown

I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.

— Lady Gaga

A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream…

— Neil Tennant

Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings.

— Judy Grahn

And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture…

— Andrew Solomon

I quickly found that I didn't really fit into 'gay culture,' as identified by many gay people, and that it can be just as…

— John Cameron Mitchell

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture…

— Andrew Sullivan

Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco…

— Lance Loud