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  • Ultimately, I felt fortunate, because in many ways I did identify with aspects of being gay that were very stereotypical. I was a big theatre kid in high school, I was creative, I was very emotionally sensitive, even hypersensitive. I loved female divas.

    School   Kids   Gay  
  • For them [LGBT group], language has to say exactly what it means. "Why aren't you proud of being gay?" they wanted to know. "Why are you so dark? Why are you so morbid? Why are you so sad? Don't you realize, we're all okay? Let's celebrate that fact." But that is not what writers do. We don't celebrate being "okay." If you want to be okay, take an aspirin.

    Mean   Dark   Gay  
    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • Being gay is natural. Hating gay is a lifestyle choice.

    FaceBook post by John Fugelsang from Jun 26, 2013
  • At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as we know, has exhibited homophobic behavior - and that's the human being.

    Gay   Animal   Behavior  
  • I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay. But when I found the right story, I saw it as an opportunity to write about being a teenager and being gay. Most people, whether you're gay or straight or whatever, have experienced that relationship where one person is much more interested than the other.

    Teenager   Writing   Gay  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.

    Sex   Gay   Rights  
    Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”
  • I do not believe being gay or lesbian is a choice.

    Gay   Choices   Being Gay  
    "Meet the Press" with Tim Russet, www.nbcnews.com. November 11, 2007.
  • My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

  • Part of my motivation in the search for a cause of being gay was the need to find "something that has gone wrong that I can put right," and it was good, spiritually fruitful, to discover that the question "What went wrong in where I came from?" is actually not a useful one.

    Motivation   Gay   Needs  
    Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
  • I don’t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with - that’s the way I was raised - but I just can’t see what’s so wrong about being gay.

    Gay   Rumor   Way  
    "'I just can't see what's so wrong about being gay' - Zac Efron opens up about homosexuality" by Corinne Redfern, www.mirror.co.uk. September 13, 2012.
  • I have been kicked out of my home for being gay. I felt that.

    Home   Gay   Has Beens  
  • What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

    Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.54, New Directions Publishing
  • In the old days talks would have made me angry. But now that I've come out, everyone knows the truth. That's like a protective shield against comments like that. Stupid remarks and jokes no longer hurt me, because I can stand by being gay. Nowadays I can even laugh at jokes about gays. Now I feel free, hungry and strong.

    Strong   Hurt   Stupid  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where no one thought being gay was even something to ride someone about?

    Nice   Gay   World  
    Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.104, Scholastic Inc.
  • There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.

    Gay   Fans   Stuff  
  • Homosexuality is God's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.

  • It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain.

    Mistake   Stress   Gay  
  • I think Justin Timberlake verges on being gay, he gets gay airplay. Britney gets loads as well. If you're male and you're black you're not going to get much play in a gay club.

    Gay   Thinking   Play  
  • Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.

    Gay   Glitter   Being Gay  
  • There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'

    Moving   Gay   Attention  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • When all Americans are treated as equal we are all more free.

    Barack Obama's remarks on the Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality at the White House Rose Garden in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2015.
  • Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.

    Gay   People   These Days  
    Source: andrewsolomon.com
  • It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

  • It’s so wonderful being a gay person. I said that before. I’m going to say it again. I love being gay. And I love gay people. I think we’re better than other people. I really do. I think we’re smarter and more talented and more aware and I do, I do, I totally do. And I think we’re more tuned in to what’s happening, tuned into the moment, tuned into our emotions, and other people’s emotions, and we’re better friends. I really do think all of these things. And I try not to forget them.

    Gay   Love Is   Thinking  
  • Gays being gay is wrong. Two women can't produce a baby, two men can't produce a baby, so it's not how it's supposed to be. ... I don't believe in gay marriages. I don't believe in being gay.

    Baby   Believe   Gay  
  • In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.

    Gay   Thinking   Annoyed  
    John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.60, A&C Black
  • I never really got any backlash from coming out. Across the board all I really got was kids who were grateful, which is so touching and rewarding for me. So grateful that I came out, that I could serve as someone in their world that was gay and helped them feel comfortable about being gay themselves.

    Grateful   Kids   Gay  
    Source: thequietus.com
  • I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies

    Apology   Gay   Ashamed  
  • I’m not unsympathetic. But do you like me? Because this being gay business doesn’t mean you can just throw yourself at any guy and it’ll be fine because he’s not a girl. There are still people you like and people you don’t.

    Girl   Mean   Gay  
  • Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

    Letter to an American mother, 9 Apr. 1935
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