Home / Topics / Gay Quotes

Gay Quotes

Browse 3625 quotes about Gay.

Gay Quotes

“In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.”

Political Purpose Order Feminism Gay Activism Division Insisting Gay And Straight

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.”

Feminism Gay Activism Obligation Organized Something Better Organized Religion

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.”

Today Form Hate Girl Church Feminism Gay I Hate Catholic Activism Hated Dogma Troops Catholic Church Girl Scout

Author:Camille Paglia

“There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.”

Spiritual Political Black Church Leader Kings Gay Tradition Profound Activism Rhetoric Hostile Luther Stature Political Rhetoric Profound Spiritual

Author:Camille Paglia

“Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of approval. They ought to go back to the days of the Stonewall Riots, when the police's violations of privacy and private property were the object of their anger and activism.”

States Seems Interesting Objects Ought Gay Police Property Activism Privacy Approval Bores Crave Violation Riot Seals Private Property Pension Colossal

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in gay and lesbian politics and feminist politics.”

Poverty Gay Feminist Activism Thread Trans Grassroots

Author:Dean Spade

“Liberalism in various guises - feminism, the sexual revolution, gay activism - has been at war with marriage and family for several decades now. And when do-gooders look around at the wreckage of human lives caused by disintegrating families, they call for government to act as father, mother, brother, and sister.”

Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

“I realized I was gay when I was a teenager and I couldn't imagine what it meant to be a gay adult. I just did the next thing that seemed right, and that led me from activism to media to the kind of media I'm in now. But I like where I've ended up.”

Kind Next Imagine Media Gay Adults Activism I Realized Teenager Meant To Be

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Under the right conditions, gay people can become politicians and be in control of their lives in a much broader way through activism.”

People Politician Gay Activism Gay People

Author:Daayiee Abdullah

“When we, hijras, started our activism, we had to tell people, "We exist, we are humans. Please give us nothing but our basic dignity." The biggest misery in the world, I believe, is the feeling of being unloved, and that this community faces a lot. You're not even considered to be human. You're considered transparent. We were ignored until we started organizing, when HIV first became a factor. Even in the HIV world, people could not believe that hijras have sex. And then also we were put in the category of men having sex with men, the gay community.”

People Men World Giving Believe Feelings I Believe Community Gay Dignity Misery Activism Ignored Unloved

Author:Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

“My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.”

Matter Values Black Gay Spring Activism Rooted Grandparent Upbringing Being Gay Quaker

Author:Bayard Rustin