Community Quote by Matt Bomer

When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.

— Melissa Etheridge

I think when I was a young person, there was just kind of - there was very little dialogue about it. And there was…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Popular culture does a lot to shape attitudes. You can't compare different communities to each other, but in my lifetime the gay and lesbian…

— Jay Ruderman

My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and…

— George Weinberg

I remember hearing about when U2 first came out and came to America and the gay community was their biggest following. And they were…

— Colin Munroe

I've been aware of my gay fans since album one. There has been such great support from that community and it has gone both…

— Josh Groban

“Now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of any kind of eccentricity. In fact, weird people were often celebrated. Epileptics were…

— Sherman Alexie

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

There are certain performers that the gay community receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I've always responded to those same artists.

— Annaleigh Ashford

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

It's not the '90s anymore. I think the gay community is a lot more accepted these days.

— Tila Tequila

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