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| GAY QUOTES | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "This sweet little blond girl [from The Sonny & Cher Show] turned out to be a big dyke. There's something wonderful about that, because that's life." - Chastity Bono to USA Today | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out." - Tennis Champ Martina Navratilova to San Fransico Bay Times | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I'm an openly gay trailer-trash Mexican. How Could they not love me?" - Ice-skating national champion Rudy Galindo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "To a large segment of our society, gay people are vieewed as sexual outlaws. ...God forbid a straight person should acknowledge that there are pleasures associated with their anus. That's a big, big door that people don't want to open." - NewsRadio TV actor Phil Hartman to Los Angeles magazine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "This is the best day of my life, really. I feel a tremendous burden lifted. It's a relief. I'm being totally honest about myself to friends and family. It feels wonderful." U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz, announcing that he is gay in order to preempt being outed by The Advocate. He was first targeted when he voted for the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "For so long I was hoping that it wasn't true [that you were a lesbian], and then when it was true, I just felt I had something wrong. 'If I had been a better mother' -- all of the stupid things that people from Ohio are supposed to feel, not mothers who are Cher, who have lots of gay friends and all that shit. As far as I was concerned, I really wasn't supposed to feel that way, because it wasn't liberal of me at all. It wasn't really who I thought I was, but it didn't make any difference. Those were my feelings, and even though I am not very proud of them, that is what it was for me; that was my experience, and I cannot try to lessen it by pretending that it wasn't. Nor am I ashamed of it. I was surprized by it. The reason I am not ashamed by it is that I was in so much pain about it, and I don't know why. But it was genuine, unbelievable pain." - Cher in an Advocate interview with her lesbian daughter, journalist Chastity Bono | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "The gay label doesn't really bother me, as long as it's just as long as it's not something that is restrictive. I just don't think that one should live one's life as a gay man. I don't think sexuality necessarily implies a life style package that comes with it." - Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant to the Washington Blade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I was 18 or 19 when I helped [actor Montgomery Clift] realize he was homosexual, and I barely knew what I was talking about. I was a virgin when I married and not a world expert on sexuality. But I loved Monty with all my heart and just knew he was unhappy. I knew he was meant to be with a man and not a woman. I introduced him to some really nice young guys." - Elizabeth Taylor to The Advocate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I'm sort of a gay success story, a very inspirational one. What happened to me is exactly the opposite of what closeted people fear: They think they'll lose everything if they come out. This did not happen to me at all. In fact, everything came back tenfold. - Rocker Mellissa Etheridge to The Advocate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I have always been openly gay. It would never occur to me to behave otherwise." Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Ringleader Eric Michael Gillet to Atlanta's Etcetera magazine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "The femme ones. The long haired, beautiful babes. And young, young, young! I always say that if they're olde enough to be in my field of vision, then they're old enough for me." Comic Lea DeLaria when asked by Cleaveland's Gap People's Chronicle, "What kind of girls gets your attention?" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I just wish that more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?" Elton John, accepting a Distinguished Achievement Award from Elizabeth Taylor at the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center's 25th anniversary blowout | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| " I do not impersonate women. How many women do you know who march around in 7-inch heels, 3-foot wigs and skin-tight outfits? Women don't wear that, drag queens wear that! The public persona of RuPaul is just a fabulous, eye-popping celebrity package designed to work in front of the camera." - RuPaul to Chicago's BLACKlines | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I feel profoundly disappointed and slightly used. My feeling was that the narrator should be an openly gay person or a sympathetic straight person. Instead, I have to endure the cruel irony of a film called The Celluloid Closet narrated by a closeted person! ...She's been pulling this shit for years. She plays gay for large gay audiences and the rest of the time remains conspicuously silent. ...Everyone I know -- gay and straight -- knows Lily [Tomlin] is gay." - Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin to the Village Voice. Maupin said he agreed to write the narration for the film (based on Vito Russo's classic book about homosexuality in the movies) with the understanding that Tomlin - who fought to get the film made and narrates it - would publicly come out of the closet. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "She's a lesbian, that's what I'm here to talk about!" - Outing inventor and gay journalist Michelangelo Signorile shouting at U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., at a book signing in New York City. Mikulski and Mary Louise Owens co-authored a mystery entitled Capitol Offense. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. ...I am not a lesbian! I wish they'd stop saying it. I have a daughter, for God's sake. What do they mean by this? They write this shit and one day I'm gonna have to talk to my daughter. ...Please, I'm so pissed off right now. Excuse me." - Singer Whitney Houston to Entertainment Weekly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I don't know why anyone cares [if I'm gay], and I don't know if it matters or not. I just, uh, I don't -- it's, you know, the whole aspect of coming out. I mean, there is a whole -- people, you know, who are gay [who] have decided that it can be -- that whole thing about calling people out -- and you have to share that, because there needs to be an equality and lack of prejudice, and you need to have a voice, so I mean, it's important, but I'm not involved in those dynamics and I have no point of view on it." Actor Keanu Reeves to USA Today | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Any garbage rumors about any aspect of his personal life are just that -- garbage. This is someone who was interviewed once on the Today show [in 1998] in front of his 14-year-old son and was asked by a sleazy reporter if it was true he was gay. It wasn't true then, it isn't true now, and even raising the issue is demeaning to him and hte political process." - Bob Dole's communications director, John Buckley, on the rumors that vice-presidential nominee Jack Kemp was a closted homosexual | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I married Peter Allen, and he didn't tell me he was gay. ...Everybody knew but me! And I didn't find out until I found out. And I found out...let me put it this way: I'll never surprise anybody coming home again as long as I live. I'll call first." - Liza Minnelli to The Advocate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I don't mind straight people as long as they act gay in public." - T-shirt worn by Chicago Bulls transvestite Dennis Rodman during a network-TV interview | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never wondered if it was acceptable or not. Anyway who really cares whether I'm gay or straight?" - Pop singer George Michael to Britain's Big Issue magazine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "So many people are gay -- or go both ways. I don't care. I don't want to hear it. ...I don't go for this outing business. If someone is gay, that's their business, and they should have the right to protect their privacy about it." - Richard Nixon, according to Monica Crowley's book Nixon Off the Record | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "What beat me was more homosexual money than in any race in history, including from a group called Lesbians for Motherhood." - Ousted Orange County, Calif., Congressman Bob Dorman to The Wall Street Journal. Dorman, rabidly anti-gay, lost to gay-friendly Loretta Sanchez, by a few hundrad votes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "They have stolen marriage. [This is now] the central moral issue of our civilization." - Traditional Values Coalition head Rev. Lou Sheldon following the Hawai'i gay-marriage ruling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Just because." - New Zealand Justice Minister Doug Graham when asked why he is opposed to gay marriage. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "[Colorado's] Amendment 2 classifies homosexuals not to further a proper legislative end but to make them unequal to everyone else. This Colorado cannot do. A State cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to it's laws.Amendment 2 violates the Equal Protection Clause [of the U.S. Constitution], and the judgement of the Supreme Court of Colorado is affirmed. It is so ordered." - From the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 6-3 ruling that smashed Colorado's voter-passed constitutional amendment that banned civil-rights protections for gays | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "The sexual orientation of parents is not in and of itself an indicator of parental fitness. ...The sexual orientation of parents does not automatically disqualify them from being good, fit, loving or successful parents. ...The sexual orientation is not and in of itself an indicator of the overall adjustmentand development of children. ...Gay and lesbian parents and same-sex couples can provide children with a nurturing relationship and a nurturing environment which is conductive to the development of happy, healthy and well-adjusted children." - From Judge Kevin Chang's ruling in the landmark Hawai'i gay-marriage case | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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