“If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage.” IfsTwoNaturalAcceptingGayNormalFolksDeniedLove Each Other Author:Kevin Rudd
“Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFactsMightSocialAcceptingIssuesRightsGayJust OneSocial IssuesTenseGay Rights Author:Charlaine Harris
“If one of my daughters happened to be [gay], of course I would love them and I would accept them. That's what we're taught when we have strong faith.” IfsCoursesStrongAcceptingHappenedTaughtGayDaughterMy DaughterStrong Faith Author:John Kasich
“My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.” WritingAcceptingInfluenceDadGayMy DadParadoxAmbiguityUps & DownsWeirdnessVery PositivePositive Influence Author:Mike Mills
“As a comedian I don't think they look at me as a sexual person but I can see where with actors it would be a little difficult for them because its part of their mystique, it gives them an easier time to change characters and people aren't going oh we have a gay actor, their gay so I don't know if I'm gunna buy this guy with this girl, its weird, I don't think it's fair; it's only done with us, it seems, like they just accept everyone as straight and go along with it and then its oh their gay and make a big deal out of it.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingLooksLittlesPersonsI CanDoneCharacterBigsSeemsWould BeGuyGirlActorsDifficultDealsAcceptingEasierGayFairsComedianLook At MeThis GuyBig DealThis GirlMystiqueEasier Times Author:Wanda Sykes
“If God wanted us to accept gays, he'd have made us compassionate” IfsMadeWantedAcceptingGayCompassionate Author:Stephen Colbert
“I got the bad press and the blogging and the email threats because people really didn't understand. They thought I was anti-gay. That's not true at all. My spiritual mom has a gay son. Even he was telling his friends "No, that's not true. She's so accepting of me." That doesn't mean I accept his lifestyle. It means I accept him as a human person and as a creation of God and a person of value.” PeopleHumansMeanPersonsSpiritualValuesAcceptingCreationSonMomGayPressesThreatLifestyleEmailBloggingAnti GayBad PressGay Son Author:Patricia Mauceri
“People spend thousands of dollars trying to keep their teeth straight. I just hope we can live in a world where we accept gay teeth.” PeopleWorldTryingAcceptingAcceptanceGayDollarsTeeth Author:Craig Ferguson
“Just open your heart man and accept that people are gay. Thousands, probably millions of people are gay. And until we find a cure - we will practice unconditional love and tolerance towards these people. And we will let them get married because they're easier to track that way.” PeopleMenWayHeartAcceptingPracticeMillionsEasierGayMarriedTrackToleranceCuresUnconditional LoveUnconditionalOpen Your Heart Author:Arj Barker
“I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I saw a lot more hostility than I saw in my everyday life.” PeopleSchoolCommunityAcceptingSawsGayEverydayLgbtPlusEveryday LifeHostilityYoutube Author:Tyler Oakley
“We do not accept the Western way of thinking that there are two ways of life. At the same time, the police (here) are not chasing gays. In Africa, sexuality is something very private, even for heterosexuals. Heterosexuals are not parading! But gays want to behave like exhibitionists.” ThinkingWayWantTwoAcceptingGayPoliceWesternSexualityBehaveChasingWay Of ThinkingTwo WaysExhibitionist Author:Yoweri Museveni
“The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.” PeopleStoriesAcceptingGayGay People Author:Andrew Solomon
“It does seem to me, though, that there is a difference between the Mormon Church saying, "We don't accept gay people within the Church; we don't accept gay marriage within the Church; we don't accept people who act on their homosexual desires within the Church;" and trying to interfere with what happens outside of the Church. That seemed to me to be an abomination.” PeopleTryingDoeSeemsHappensDesireDifferencesChurchAcceptingGayInterfereHomosexualGay MarriageGay PeopleAbomination Author:Andrew Solomon
“I had a number of different labels. A lot of people assumed I was gay because I was wearing a man's suit, and one had to learn that it's OK, people will do that, and you don't always have to explain it one hundred percent, because they're never going to accept what your own interpretation is. It's all illusory.” PeopleMenDifferentNumbersAcceptingGayPercentHundredSuitsLabelsInterpretationIllusory Author:Annie Lennox
“I think worldwide, the movement has been towards accepting and respecting the individuality and the rights of gay people, lesbians and transgender people. Here, however, age-old cultural mindsets - which also comes from Victorian times, affect the thinking of people.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensAgeAcceptingRightsMovementGayIndividualityMindsetTransgenderGay PeopleVictorianVictorian Times Author:Kabir Bedi
“It's unfortunate we live in a society where "gay" is an insult. To some of these boys, who are from really red states and have families with military history, to be called gay is the worst thing imaginable, and that's used against them. It's really interesting that these are the people drawn into the tickling world. If the people drawn into competitive endurance tickling, even if they were straight, came from liberal, accepting backgrounds, the backlash of calling them gay wouldn't be a problem. But it's a problem because of where these people are from. That's really fascinating to me.” PeopleWorldProblemInterestingAcceptingBoysWorstMilitaryGayInsultEnduranceUnfortunateReally Interesting Author:David Farrier
“My daughter loved All About Steve movie, because she's 6 feet tall and she's different. And I got a lot of great e-mails from people who are different. I'm a gay icon. I'll just say it. That's what they say to me, so I'll accept it. I got so many e-mails saying that it meant so much to those people. My daughter said, "They didn't like it just because she didn't get the guy! If they had lived happily ever after, people would have liked that movie."” PeopleDifferentGuyAcceptingGayDaughterMy DaughterHappily Ever AfterEver After Author:Beth Grant
“Making photographs that dealt with the understanding of who I am as a gay man and dealt with the process of accepting that, and also accepting what I'm into sexually, what sexually arouses me. So I was making these images not necessarily knowing what they were about, but just putting it out there - that mode of thinking or consideration of my own desires, and also the much larger conversation around images that deal with ideas of sexuality and how those images are distributed and then accepted or understood by whoever is viewing those images.” ThinkingMenDesireUnderstandingAcceptingGayPhotographSexualityAcceptedConsiderationSexuallyGay Men Author:Wardell Milan
“There are many agreements across the so-called "world religions," at a certain level of abstraction. But when it comes to applying them in concrete situations they may lead to incompatible decisions. As an example, some people think that Christian ideas of sexual modesty suggest that homosexuals should be locked up, some people think that they mean that the churches should recongize gay marriages. But everyone believes in sexual modesty. I think there are universal moral truths, whether or not everyone accepts them. Here's one very low level but important one: it's very bad to torture people.” PeopleThinkingWorldBelieveMeanImportantChristianChurchDecisionSituationAcceptingMoralGayTortureConcreteModestyHomosexualGay MarriageLocked Up Author:Kwame Anthony Appiah
“For a long time I didn't want to accept that I was gay. Better said: I couldn't accept it because I was too afraid. Homosexuals were discriminated against in Puerto Rico back then, sometimes even killed. I had a friend named José, but we called him Linoshka because he was a transvestite. He was stabbed to death in the street at the age of 19 by a homophobe because he had taken part in a gay-pride parade.” LongSometimesAgeAcceptingTakenGayHomosexualPuerto Rico Author:Orlando Cruz
“I like the labels because I think they tell my story in a very concise way: gay, Latino. I think the responsibility that comes with accepting labels is that now I get a chance to break stereotypes. It gives me the opportunity to tell the unique stories of what those labels mean.” ThinkingGivingMeanOpportunityChanceResponsibilityAcceptingBreakGayUniqueStereotypeLatino Author:Richard Blanco
“When I was a teenager, the way some of these kids out here be actively gay, it would have been ridiculed in the hood. And now the hood is a bit more accepting. Begrudgingly accepting, but definitely more accepting than 20 years ago when I was a little kid. That doesn't mean that anybody should stop fighting for equality just because people are begrudgingly a little more accepting.” PeopleMeanKidsFightingAcceptingGayTeenagerLittle KidHood Author:Talib Kweli
“...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If these people were honest, they would have to admit that the Bible is also pro - slavery and anti - women.” PeopleIfsReligionAcceptingHonestGayCatholicSlaveryDefinitionsConservativeJournalistSecularProtestantsEvangelicalRoman CatholicAnti GayPro Slavery Author:John Shelby Spong
“What does the gay movement mean when it says tolerance?...It means absolutely unconditionally accepting it as perfectly normal, healthy, natural and something that should be integrated into every part of society.” ShouldMeanDoeNaturalAcceptingMovementHealthyGayNormalToleranceIntegratedPerfectly Normal Author:Scott Lively