Dearest friend Quote by George Weinberg

People that are much younger in areas that are much more, kind of, disenfranchised, I guess, as far as the gay movement goes, they…

— Amy Ray

I think worldwide, the movement has been towards accepting and respecting the individuality and the rights of gay people, lesbians and transgender people. Here,…

— Kabir Bedi

Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were…

— Larry Kramer

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I…

— Dan Savage

I grew up in the 1970s and I am a product of women's liberation. My generation is really the first one to fully benefit…

— Pernille Fischer Christensen

My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the…

— Tom Brokaw

There are gay and lesbian people in all walks of life, in all different types of professions. I just happen to be a gay…

— Rob Halford

By the mid-noughties, I found that I was no longer the only openly gay person in every setting. At one point, a couple of…

— Masha Gessen

I grew up with gay family members, and I went to a performing arts high school. So I grew up in children's theater, musical…

— Erika Jayne

15 or 20 years ago it would not have been possible for me to come out. Back then, people still had such narrow views,…

— Orlando Cruz

I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were…

— Pam Grier

I don't think I did anything that my contemporaries didn't; it was just that I was the only one who talked about it. In…

— David Bowie