A Quote by Dan Savage

I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.

Dan Savage

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Dan Savage
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Born: October 7, 1964

I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.

Barack Obama

Gays and lesbians gained rights in this country though activism and organizing, creating political space and demanding change so that lawmakers and justices could do what they knew was right. That organizing allowed Americans to get to know gays and lesbians as our daughters and sons, our neighbors, and our friends.

Pramila Jayapal

You could protect a religious minority against gays and lesbians. Or you could protect gays and lesbians against a religious minority. And then, it seems to me something political is happening. Because we're not really looking at the kind of speech that is injurious.

Judith Butler

While increasing acceptance of gays marks my generational experience - Ellen DeGeneres is welcomed into the living rooms of millions of Americans daily, an impossibility in even my childhood - many who are older than me fear that if gays and lesbians can marry, what's next?

Margaret Hoover

I don't think there is any good answer to the question why shouldn't gays and lesbians who want to serve their country be allowed to do it.

John Bolton

It takes courage to reinvent joys, to reinvent opportunities, to reinvent dreams, to reinvent connections, to reinvent hopes that you have set aside.

Mary Anne Radmacher

God did not create gays and lesbians so He could have something to hate!

Troy Perry

Gays and lesbians are our friends, neighbors, doctors, colleagues, sisters and brothers.

Margaret Hoover

Our country's history is a generation-spanning journey to effectuate the notion that 'all men are created equal' for the members of our ever-expanding national family: women, African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, gays and lesbians, the disabled, immigrants, and refugees.

Raja Krishnamoorthi

If we are endowed by our Creator with rights, then why shouldn't those be attainable by gays and lesbians?

Bill Nelson

Gays and lesbians are sick people. It's definitely a disease. They haven't invented a cure for it yet, but I hope they will.

Eli Yishai

We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the struggle for equality for the gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. And I think it's important for Americans to know about the times that we failed.

George Takei

There are gays and lesbians in every country, so there should be no discrimination against them just because of their destiny.

Hun Sen

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

Nicholas Kristof

Fundamentalist Christianity is not just a threat to lesbians and gays, but to all Americans who cherish democracy and the rights and protections guaranteed us by the U.S. constitution.

Mel White

Securing for gays and lesbians the basic right to have their relationships and families recognized as part of a community makes all of our communities stronger.

Paul Singer

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