Cardinals Quote by Stephen Colbert

The Pope, if nothing else, should be a Catholic. If he were to announce that women would make great priests, except it's a pity…

— Declan Lynch

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

My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.

— Nan Goldin

“First, the Catholic Church needs to pay more than lip service to the LGBTQ members of the faith. We are not to be denigrated…

— Charles Benedict

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow…

— Lady Gaga

“New York may be splendidly gay or squalidly gay but prince or pauper, it's gay always...Yes, gay is the word...but frantic. I can't get…

— William Dean Howells

“…Catholicism is like Howard Johnson, and what they have are these franchises and they give all these people different franchises in the different countries…

— Lenny Bruce

There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops…

— Gene Robinson

I think Pope Francis is a guy who comes from a certain place in the world, and that shapes how he processes things. He's…

— Bill O'Reilly

I've worked in the gay clubs in Moscow, and the big cities. They're much more tolerant. It's the small cities where you get the…

— Amanda Lepore

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays…

— Pete Coors

I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age,…

— Gail Collins