There are tons of gay issues that are important, from gay marriage to adoption rights to work-place discrimination and more... but I… — Tyler Oakley Copy Share Image
As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Mark doesn't have to be anything at this age. Growing up is hard enough without having to make big decisions about your… — Louise Nicks Copy Share Image
I had mentors, growing up in gay life - older gay men who told me about our history and the history of… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community… — Laura Innes Copy Share Image
“[T]here is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“In short, I ran away. I was about to fall in love. Aside from being opposed to getting involved with a guy,… — Kou Yoneda Copy Share Image
If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
I had heard before that there were rumors I was gay. It's funny. My cousin gets his hair cut at this place,… — Scott Wolf Copy Share Image
I was a 24-year-old, Afro-Latino, gay kid struggling to fully come to terms with his sexual identity, and terrified to run as… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have come to… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
I never tried to crossover or be in the public's eye everyday. I'm laid back with it and at times I wondered… — Rakim Copy Share Image
“The first week of school they spotted him using a tortoise-shell cigarette holder. When he'd overheard some of the boys whispering that… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a… — Matt Lucas Copy Share Image
My sexuality is not black and white. I'm a gay man who has occasionally drifted. I am not bi. I've had perfectly… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Since I was a young girl in the punk scene, almost all of my friends have been gay or lesbian, so for… — Belinda Carlisle Copy Share Image
As time goes by, we're getting more accepting of the differences between one another - whether it's gay or transgender, whether it's… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
God love Neil Patrick Harris - how great is that. People grew up with him; they go, 'Oh it's him, it's that… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
My experience of coming out was very much centered around the bar scene. And what happened for me is that when I… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
“I, too, am a drum major for justice. I will continue to speak out-LOUD and PROUD- as long as gay youth are… — J'son M. Lee Copy Share Image
“Even if sexual orientation were a choice, aren't we a country where we're supposed to be free to pursue our happiness, whether… — Alex Sanchez Copy Share Image
“I went downstairs to Dad’s encyclopedia and looked up HOMOSEXUALITY, but that didn’t tell me much about any of the things I… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
“It was like school spirit back in high school. He didn’t have it then, and he didn’t have it now. To him,… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“I'm as liberal as the next person', complained Alsana, once they were alone. 'But why do they always have to be laughing… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I’m not unsympathetic. But do you like me? Because this being gay business doesn’t mean you can just throw yourself at any… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
Coming out with your sexuality is something that broadly affects a lot of different people. We just want people to realize it… — Terry Dubrow Copy Share Image
People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film... Heterosexuality to me is… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
“When I joined the military it was illegal to be homosexual, then it became optional, and now it's legal. I'm getting out… — USMC Sgt. Harry Berres Copy Share Image
In the early stages of being out, you meet all these people from all kinds of backgrounds, and the one thing you… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
For a while I was a completely unknown artist with no fan base and no draw in the clubs. The only people… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
![“[T]here is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices, and what anyone does with a willing partner is of no social or cosmic significance.” quote by Gore Vidal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebb/gore-vidal-466_quote_t-here-is-no-such-thing-as-a-homosexual_1916419.jpg)
![“Even if sexual orientation were a choice, aren't we a country where we're supposed to be free to pursue our happiness, whether we're hetero-, homo-, bi-, trans-, or even a-sexual? To use [an analogy that homosexuality is a vice, like drinking], being antigay is like Prohibition, when a small group…” quote by Alex Sanchez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae7/alex-sanchez-28999_happiness_even-if-sexual-orientation-were-a-choice_1411959.jpg)
![“Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who can't live up to what you expect of them as gay people?” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b12/kevin-sessums-9486_disappointed_is-it-easier-for-you-to-have-straight-fr_2998013.jpg)
