Top 1200 Gay Culture Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I am not ashamed to say that our culture is far better than the Islamic culture, which is a culture of barbarism.

I have many gay friends who don't support gay marriage either.

I'm passionate about gay rights, but I think we need admit that there are some gay wrongs as well.

I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.

You can't just put gay in a little gay box anymore.

What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.

The Kinsey Institute says gay men have bigger sex organs. Hence the origin of gay pride.

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

Obviously, gay projects play a special role for me because I am gay, so I'm doubly proud of them.

Gay marriage is a tricky issue for the Democrats due to the fact that - like taxes, defense and education - they are forced to lie about their position when running for office. In other words, Democrats are gay marriage supporters trapped in the bodies of candidates who oppose gay marriage. And no issue-reassignment surgery can help them.

My best audience and where I’m happiest is in the gay community. That’s where I feel the most accepted. It’s a community that appreciates pop culture like no other. For me, that’s where I’m home and I always want to come home.

I just think gay men are looked at much less favorably than gay women. If you look at the overall stereotype, lesbians are sexy, and gay men are disgusting. Girl and girl is fine, and guy and guy seems to just be something completely different.

The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.

If you gay, you gay. Like, that's your preference, you know?

I love my gay fans. Gay people are always usually my best friends in the whole world. I completely adore them.

If you hate gay marriage, then don't marry a gay person.

I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture.

This is what Baylor is all about, .. This is 2012 and it implements faculty expertise and it allows students to experience international culture, not only that, but a culture within a culture.

I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.

I would like to tell stories through the lens of the gay person, but not just for gay people.

If anti-gay stuff is always coming out of your mouth, something very gay is probably going in.

It would be so helpful for the straight community to see men in powerful positions coming out and saying "I'm gay" so they don't have these preconceived notions that all gay men are smarmy idiots living on the street or whatever it is people think of gay men. I think it would be really helpful and productive.

I'll tell you this: Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality. And the protections that we have, for religion -we protect religion- and talk about a lifestyle choice! That is absolutely a choice. Gay people don't choose to be gay. At what age did you choose not to be gay?

I think being gay has resulted in gay characters standing front and center in all of my work.

To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.

When I started, you couldn't do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 - it was so difficult.

It's important for me to talk about my life as a gay man, not gay themes per se, in my work.

Being gay is natural. Hating gay is a lifestyle choice.

For the most part, it was never assumed that I was gay, and I've had people be sort of surprised that I was gay or act apologetic like they didn't know, which would just make me really uncomfortable. And I never had shame for it, but I never felt like introducing myself as, 'I'm Antoni. I'm gay. How are you?'

Professional wrestling in Europe is more of a sub-culture. It is not as popular as it is here in the United States. The people that were drawn to it were also people that were into sub-culture, hardcore sub-culture. It is basically an alternative scene that is sub-culture.

I don't have any intention to be anti-gay or to persecute the gay community.

I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it.

Today, nobody cares about European culture. We have a tradition, a vision, a culture of the past, we have legacy, but we don't have a present culture and we don't have a future.

Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.

Drag has been featured in popular culture for decades. Movies like 'Kinky Boots,' 'Tootsie,' 'The Birdcage' - even 'Mrs. Doubtfire' - have showcased men, some gay, some not, who dress and perform as women.

The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.

You don't have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have to believe in the values of high culture. Not just high culture but middle culture, low culture, kinds of exciting eye-catching crap of all kinds. Everyone needs that.

What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.

I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay.

Legalizing gay marriage is not about making it possible for gay people to become couples. It's about giving the Left the power to force anti-religious values on our children. Once they legalize gay marriage, it will be the bludgeon they use to make sure that it becomes illegal to teach traditional values in the schools.

I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

Repression is good for cultural achievement. Let's face it. What are gay boys going to be like? I always like to say the 19th-century gay boy was Oscar Wilde, the 20th-century gay boy was Stonewall and ACT UP. And in the 21st century, we have blocking people on Grindr. That's what we've accomplished. Without some kind of traction.

If You don't like Gay Marriage, Don't Marry a Gay Person.

I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

To be gay means you are drawn to the same sex. You can be gay and abstinent. But it's a part of who you are, an identity, not an act.

I think it's very important that, you know, gay actors get to play gay characters.

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

I am a transporter of the Italian culture - culinary culture, family culture - because I love it, I thrive in it, and I think it's the right way.

I probably haven't had enough gay characters in my stuff. When you're writing something, you're thinking, 'Why couldn't this person be black, white, gay?'

I think any gay comedian will acknowledge the fact that he or she is gay - it's not a coincidence, it's deeply who they are.

I had a tremendous amount of gay friends, so my whole life was basically like that... I never noticed who was gay or who was straight.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

If I were gay, you know. I think Woody Allen is one of a long list of men I might go gay for.

The representation of gay characters on screen is important for us all to think about because there are sadly too few representations of gay characters on screen in mainstream cinema. If Marvel starts making movies about gay superheroes, then we'll be in a really great place. We're not at that place.

Gay people are all like Superman. You have to be quite strong to be gay - or to be different in any way. You build special muscles.

People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film... Heterosexuality to me is a structure as much as it is a content. It is an imposed structure that goes along with the patriarchal, dominant structure that constrains and defines society. If homosexuality is the opposite or the counter-sexual activity to that, then what kind of a structure would it be?

In 'The Humans,' there's a gay character, and the fact that she's gay is probably the least interesting thing about her.

I don't think we have to make a big thing about being gay, except for when we get together for these gay pride events.

It's part of Satan, I think, to say that this is "gay". It's anything but gay.

There is no Cura Gay, there's just gay. Or not. Or however you identify, and nobody should have say over something so personal and inherent.