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title: "Homosexuality Lines Collection"
description: "Browse 3,495 Homosexuality quotes by 1,824 authors. Discover the best Homosexuality sayings and thoughts."
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> [“Heterosexuality is the traditional way of expressing love and romance; the act of enjoyment between opposite sexes. It is not only for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-f-moonzajer/heterosexuality-is-the-traditional-way-of-expressing-love-and-romance/)

[M.F. Moonzajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-f-moonzajer/)

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> [I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lea-salonga/i-have-a-half-brother-who-is-very-very-very-gay-many-cousins-best/)

[Lea Salonga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lea-salonga/)

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> [I have decided to give up heterosexuality. I have decided that, while the project of altering the balance of power within heterosexual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelene-wandor/i-have-decided-to-give-up-heterosexuality-i-have-decided-that-while/)

[Michelene Wandor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelene-wandor/)

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> [“There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelly-j-cogswell/there-was-no-single-gay-point-of-view-like-skin-color-or-gender-or/)

[Kelly J. Cogswell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelly-j-cogswell/)

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> [I love my gay brothers. I love my lesbian sisters. I love my transvestite, my gender-bending folk. For me, it's a matter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-love-my-gay-brothers-i-love-my-lesbian-sisters-i-love-my/)

[Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/)

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> [After months of speculation, the sitcom star Ellen DeGeneres admitted that yes, she's gay. Inspired by her courage, today, diet-guru Richard Simmons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norm-macdonald/after-months-of-speculation-the-sitcom-star-ellen-degeneres-admitted/)

[Norm MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norm-macdonald/)

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> [A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margot-adler/a-number-of-studies-of-homeless-youth-in-big-cities-put-forth-a/)

[Margot Adler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margot-adler/)

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> [The new millennium won't be about sexual labels, it'll be about sexual expression. It won't matter if you're sleeping with men or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-cattrall/the-new-millennium-won-t-be-about-sexual-labels-it-ll-be-about-sexual-2/)

[Kim Cattrall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-cattrall/)

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> [In 2000, I pushed Ricky Martin very hard to admit if he was gay or not, and the way he refused to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-walters/in-2000-i-pushed-ricky-martin-very-hard-to-admit-if-he-was-gay-or-not/)

[Barbara Walters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-walters/)

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> [My goal in talking about my sexuality publicly is just so that a scared little girl or little boy can see me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-deville/my-goal-in-talking-about-my-sexuality-publicly-is-just-so-that-a/)

[Sonya Deville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-deville/)

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> [I never talked about homosexuality with my family. After I was 18, they know everything, but I never talk; it was like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefano-gabbana/i-never-talked-about-homosexuality-with-my-family-after-i-was-18-they/)

[Stefano Gabbana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefano-gabbana/)

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> [A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/a-way-of-life-can-be-shared-among-individuals-of-different-ages/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

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> [So many people in the gay community have always asked me to come out, say it like it is, and help our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johnny-weir/so-many-people-in-the-gay-community-have-always-asked-me-to-come-out/)

[Johnny Weir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johnny-weir/)

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> [We have the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church talking about how gay marriage is a sign of the apocalypse, or Russian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masha-gessen/we-have-the-patriarch-of-the-russian-orthodox-church-talking-about/)

[Masha Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masha-gessen/)

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> [Gays and lesbians gained rights in this country though activism and organizing, creating political space and demanding change so that lawmakers and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pramila-jayapal/gays-and-lesbians-gained-rights-in-this-country-though-activism-and/)

[Pramila Jayapal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pramila-jayapal/)

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> [What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-velez-mitchell/what-does-homophobia-look-like-when-it-s-stripped-bare-of-fancy/)

[Jane Velez-Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-velez-mitchell/)

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> [“For twenty-one years, I have been paralyzed by the fear of what this society will do with me if they ever were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-pearce/for-twenty-one-years-i-have-been-paralyzed-by-the-fear-of-what-this/)

[Dan Pearce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-pearce/)

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> [When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mckellen/when-i-went-to-lobby-nelson-mandela-while-the-post-apartheid/)

[Ian Mckellen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mckellen/)

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> [The minute I tell you I'm a dyke and you're like, 'If you're a lesbian, and we were laughing at you, does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elvira-kurt/the-minute-i-tell-you-i-m-a-dyke-and-you-re-like-if-you-re-a-lesbian/)

[Elvira Kurt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elvira-kurt/)

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> [I feel like people are so eager and willing to accept the concept of females being bisexual and having it be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-bowyer-chapman/i-feel-like-people-are-so-eager-and-willing-to-accept-the-concept-of/)

[Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-bowyer-chapman/)

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> [My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-crisp/my-outlook-was-so-limited-that-i-assumed-that-all-deviates-were/)

[Quentin Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-crisp/)

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> [I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I will wave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-opie/i-go-back-and-forth-but-i-never-wanted-to-be-the-photographer-of-the/)

[Catherine Opie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-opie/)

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> [Unless you're of a certain age, you may not know my name, but you can Google it - I was a pretty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tab-hunter/unless-you-re-of-a-certain-age-you-may-not-know-my-name-but-you-can/)

[Tab Hunter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tab-hunter/)

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> [Every religion I know of has changed its views with respect to concrete controversies over long periods of time. People's views about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-balkin/every-religion-i-know-of-has-changed-its-views-with-respect-to/)

[Jack Balkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-balkin/)

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> [I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ira-sachs/i-think-as-a-gay-person-there-was-no-way-in-my-generation-to-not-grow/)

[Ira Sachs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ira-sachs/)

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> [Actually, since I'm gay I think I should count for two guys instead of just one. I mean, in me you get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/actually-since-i-m-gay-i-think-i-should-count-for-two-guys-instead-of/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [If I was gay, there’d be no closet. You’d never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-rollins/if-i-was-gay-there-d-be-no-closet-you-d-never-see-the-closet-i-came/)

[Henry Rollins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-rollins/)

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> [I think a lot of what I've done is about people feeling as if they are part of the world but also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-berlanti/i-think-a-lot-of-what-i-ve-done-is-about-people-feeling-as-if-they/)

[Greg Berlanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-berlanti/)

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> [“What's more, the kaleidoscopic blend of gender-variant and gender-typical traits that characterizes gay people is exactly what enables us to make our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-levay/what-s-more-the-kaleidoscopic-blend-of-gender-variant-and-gender/)

[Simon LeVay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-levay/)

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> [But I don't have anything to prove. My reputation is what it is. It seems that a lot of gay men are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-hersch/but-i-don-t-have-anything-to-prove-my-reputation-is-what-it-is-it/)

[Fred Hersch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-hersch/)

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> [If somebody walks in to me and says, 'I'm a gay person, I want a job in your office,' I would say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-neumann/if-somebody-walks-in-to-me-and-says-i-m-a-gay-person-i-want-a-job-in/)

[Mark Neumann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-neumann/)

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> [I feel that most gay men are so much more in touch with a certain kind of sensitivity that heterosexual men aren't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madonna-ciccone/i-feel-that-most-gay-men-are-so-much-more-in-touch-with-a-certain/)

[Madonna Ciccone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madonna-ciccone/)

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> [It's of very little importance to me that I was born gay. It doesn't make me a better athlete, it doesn't make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johnny-weir/it-s-of-very-little-importance-to-me-that-i-was-born-gay-it-doesn-t/)

[Johnny Weir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johnny-weir/)

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> [ Maybe \[Sodom and Gomorrah\] isn't really about homosexuality, but about rape. If the angels had been female, and the men of Sodom… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-sanchez/maybe-sodom-and-gomorrah-isn-t-really-about-homosexuality-but-about/)

[Alex Sanchez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-sanchez/)

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> [I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tabatha-coffey/i-m-really-proud-that-the-lgbt-community-has-gotten-behind-me-because/)

[Tabatha Coffey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tabatha-coffey/)

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> [It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zachary-quinto/it-became-clear-to-me-in-an-instant-that-living-a-gay-life-without/)

[Zachary Quinto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zachary-quinto/)

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> [In other words, homosexuality was no longer to be considered an illegal form of debauchery or perversion in which one willingly engaged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-lahaye/in-other-words-homosexuality-was-no-longer-to-be-considered-an/)

[Tim LaHaye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-lahaye/)

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> [The performance of buggery is no more inevitable a part of homosexuality than an orange syllabub is an inevitable part of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/the-performance-of-buggery-is-no-more-inevitable-a-part-of/)

[Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/)

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> [I'm straight and always have been. When our family gets together, we joke about it or throw our hands up in desperation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-ii-prince-of-monaco/i-m-straight-and-always-have-been-when-our-family-gets-together-we/)

[Albert II, Prince of Monaco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-ii-prince-of-monaco/)

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> [Once I came out in sports, I basically told myself, 'I'm coming out, officially. I wanted to be able to look in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brittney-griner/once-i-came-out-in-sports-i-basically-told-myself-i-m-coming-out/)

[Brittney Griner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brittney-griner/)

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## Top authors on Homosexuality

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-dan-savage-26262.jpg) Dan Savage 23 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/homosexuality/dan-savage/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-andrew-solomon-13073.jpg) Andrew Solomon 19 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/homosexuality/andrew-solomon/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-harvey-milk-40821.jpg) Harvey Milk 18 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/homosexuality/harvey-milk/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-palliser-22508.jpg) Scott Lively 17 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/homosexuality/scott-lively/)
- [Charles Benedict 15 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/homosexuality/charles-benedict/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-boy-george-18997.jpg) Boy George 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/homosexuality/boy-george/)
- [Anthony Venn-Brown 14 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/homosexuality/anthony-venn-brown/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-fry-87000.jpg) Stephen Fry 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/homosexuality/stephen-fry/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-ricky-martin-79130.jpg) Ricky Martin 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/homosexuality/ricky-martin/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-ian-mckellen-42951.jpg) Ian Mckellen 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/homosexuality/ian-mckellen/)
- [Gus Kenworthy 13 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/homosexuality/gus-kenworthy/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gore-vidal-39078.jpg) Gore Vidal 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/homosexuality/gore-vidal/)

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                        "text": "A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.",
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                        "text": "The new millennium won't be about sexual labels, it'll be about sexual expression. It won't matter if you're sleeping with men or women. Soon everyone will be pansexual. It won't matter if you're gay or straight. Just if you're good or bad in bed.",
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                        "text": "In 2000, I pushed Ricky Martin very hard to admit if he was gay or not, and the way he refused to do it made everyone decide that he was. A lot of people say that destroyed his career, and when I think back on it now I feel it was an inappropriate question.",
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                        "text": "My goal in talking about my sexuality publicly is just so that a scared little girl or little boy can see me do it and think, 'wow, if she did it, then maybe it's OK that I do it.' It's to encourage people to be themselves.",
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                        "text": "I never talked about homosexuality with my family. After I was 18, they know everything, but I never talk; it was like an information but in silence. I start to talk when I was 32, it was good for me - it was like a liberation. I'm talking about a love story. I'm not talking about sex because love is love.",
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                        "text": "So many people in the gay community have always asked me to come out, say it like it is, and help our cause. But for me... I think my biggest statement I could give to the world is to be strong being myself... you have to make something of yourself, and that's what makes us strong.",
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                        "text": "We have the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church talking about how gay marriage is a sign of the apocalypse, or Russian TV talking about how meteorites are coming to punish Russians for homosexuality.",
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                        "text": "Gays and lesbians gained rights in this country though activism and organizing, creating political space and demanding change so that lawmakers and justices could do what they knew was right. That organizing allowed Americans to get to know gays and lesbians as our daughters and sons, our neighbors, and our friends.",
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                        "text": "What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country.",
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                        "text": "My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.",
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                        "text": "I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I will wave a rainbow flag proudly, but I am not a singular identity. I think a singular identity isn't very interesting, and I'm a little bit more multifaceted as a person than that.",
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                        "text": "Unless you're of a certain age, you may not know my name, but you can Google it - I was a pretty big movie star in the 1950s. Oh, and another thing: I was - am - gay.",
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                        "text": "Every religion I know of has changed its views with respect to concrete controversies over long periods of time. People's views about the morality of homosexuality are likely to undergo some change, even though they're making judgments based on their religious beliefs. Because in fact, religion is an extremely durable, and yet flexible, way of trying to apprehend what's good and what's bad in the world. In fact, its durability comes from its flexibility. Now, speaking from inside a religion, it's hard to talk that way.",
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                        "text": "I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense of being wrong. It was impossible to avoid. Externally, you might make choices that are very public and very open but internally that was a struggle.",
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                        "text": "If I was gay, there’d be no closet. You’d never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve! Because I know, with all certainty in my mind, there’s nothing wrong with being gay and you know it! And there’s nothing wrong with being into chicks if you’re a girl. And there’s nothing wrong with being into all of it…. How awesome would it be to be bisexual? To just walk into a room and go ‘MMMM, ALRIGHT!!!!’",
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                        "text": "“What's more, the kaleidoscopic blend of gender-variant and gender-typical traits that characterizes gay people is exactly what enables us to make our own unique contributions to society. It's the reason that we should be valued, celebrated, and welcomed into society rather than merely being tolerated. The aim should be to foster acceptance of gay people as we are, in all our rich diversity and not to seek acceptance by shoe-horning ourselves into conformity with the straight majority.”",
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                        "text": "But I don't have anything to prove. My reputation is what it is. It seems that a lot of gay men are put off by jazz because either they don't believe it speaks to their own experience or they believe the genre itself to be somehow intolerant of homosexuality.",
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