Browsing Topic Best Gay Community Quotes

I’m not that fond of these newer gays. Too sensitive. Too brittle. Those aren’t the gays I grew up with . . . They fought for their freedom. I respect that shit.

I’ve always felt very attuned to, and at home in, the gay community.

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere… Being a human being is what truly counts. That’s where you’ll find me.

I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.

I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word marriage. Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.

Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will help you. I think the gay community has a moral obligation to continue the fight.

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960’s, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

I have gay friends, I support gay rights, I have nothing against the gay community, but when I see two guys kissing, I think it’s gross. And, by the way, it’s gross when 99% of straight people do it, too.

When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

Everyone in the gay community doesn’t think alike.

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.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

I understand why the gay community wants to embrace actors who are out. People want to be represented.

If you’re a member of a despised group, look out! They’ll find a drug and associate you with its use. There are a lot of people in the gay community using methamphetamine and paying taxes and going to work and doing well.

I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.

I think the gay community, as a whole, is slighted by high-profile figures who remain in the closet. But I think that a lot of times we need to ask ourselves what that person’s role in our community would be if they were out of the closet.

I remember hearing about when U2 first came out and came to America and the gay community was their biggest following. And they were totally surprised, but they were like, that’s cool. And for me it’s the same thing.

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 which can be uninclusive and disempowering.

A lot of people in my world – in the acting world – have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

When I decided to have my character on the show come out, I knew I was going to have to come out, too. I never wanted to be the lesbian actress. I never wanted to be the spokesperson for the gay community. Ever. I did it for my own truth.

Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they’re active and they talk about it.

People in the gay community are real people too. They have lives and families and friends. They do normal things.

I don’t think that I have been treated kindly or fairly by a certain portion of the gay community. Most of the rest don’t know what to make of me. On the occasions that I have had the opportunity to present myself to the community, I have gotten a positive response.

Just because you are out doesn’t make you the poster boy for the gay community.

Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by many to divide blacks and the gay community with the argument that the latter are seeking some imaginary special rights at the expense of blacks.

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

I think the best article was the article about radical feminists being against transgender women. I found that the most fascinating article and I absolutely loved it. I love battles within the gay community or feminist community. I love radical theorists.

Glee is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don’t necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.

Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I’ve always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That’s how I was raised.

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don’t represent the entire gay community because it’s a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

If the gay community finds me attractive, I hope women feel the same way.

While I learned, I hid out largely in the gay community, and overall it kept me very safe.

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

The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I’m part of it and I see it every day.