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The perpetuation of family and cultural pressures to conform to prescribed masculine behaviors is what creates social isolation and distress in many young gay…

— Karamo Brown

I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative…

— Cynthia Nixon

Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent…

— BD Wong

“Gay behavior is learned; it is part of the gay socialization process. Young homos affect gay behavior to establish a sense of belonging in…

— Jack Malebranche

Experiences with friends or family members coming out have helped millions of Americans to see past stereotypes and better understand what being gay is…

— Pete Buttigieg

“To all my friends who constantly talk disparagingly about the supposed 'homosexual lifestyle' and stereotype gay people and the community, I'd like to get…

— Anthony Venn-Brown

When you are born gay, you are born into a rich culture of politics, music, and art, but you are also a minority in…

— Justin Tranter

If every gay person were to come out only to his/her own family, friends, neighbors and fellow workers, within days the entire state would…

— Harvey Milk

I've always had mostly gay male friends.

— Melissa McCarthy

So many gay men are mothers to so many young people, me included. I've had gay men who were more mother to me than…

— Michael Arden

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

— Judy Grahn

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