Top 1200 Gay Friend Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

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

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Gay marriage, I am so against it because if all my gay friends get married, it will cost me a fortune in gifts.

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

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

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.

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

My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.

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.

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

Being called gay is worse than transgender. I remember when I started fighting way back in 1999 for hijas' rights, and I said the state doesn't have the right to use my gender to club me into "gay." If I say I am not a man then who are you to question it? Being called gay or a man really upsets me.

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.

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

A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness. A friend is that other person with whom we can share our solitude, our silence, and our prayer. A friend is that other person with whom we can look at a tree and say, "Isn't that beautiful," or sit on the beach and silently watch the sun disappear under the horizon. With a friend we don't have to say or do something special. With a friend we can be still and know that God is there with both of us.

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

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.

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

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

I've been standing with and united with the gay community. I know so many gay men and women that homophobia is such a baffling thing for me.

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

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

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?'

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

Miley Cyrus followed me, tweeted at me. We started messaging; we traded numbers. She's become like a friend. She's super supportive of me being gay.

A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.

I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends. Paul Thomas Anderson is a genuine friend. Robert Rodriguez is a genuine friend. Rick Richard Linklater is a genuine friend. Eli Roth is a genuine friend. And so is Edgar Wright.

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.

I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and shes gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.

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

Shouldn't homophobic politicians and anti-gay bullies be presumed to be gay until they get caught up in a straight sex scandal?

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what they have in common.

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

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'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?

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

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.

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.

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?'

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

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.

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

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.

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

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

When I was in high school, there weren't a lot of out gay actors playing gay roles. I didn't see myself represented truthfully in the media.

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

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.