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“Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.”

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Author:A. J. McLean

“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”

“I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.”

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Author:Graham Norton

“Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.”

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Author:Gus Van Sant

“My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.”

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Author:Gus Van Sant

“I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.”

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Author:Dan Savage

“I often refer to myself as a gay man and all my friends are gay and I would like nothing more than for them to be able to be married.”

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Author:Tori Spelling

“Gays don't have a lot of testosterone. I'm talking about that they use both sides of their brain. Straight men only use one side. Gay men are very bright, very handsome... they put themselves better together. They dress good, they decorate, they clean, they cook.”

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Author:Patti Stanger

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

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Author:Dan Stevens

“Gay marriage should be legalized in america because gay men are the only men who want to be married.”

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Author:Chuck Klosterman

“Somehow the pantsless gay man is not bringing the romance, Scott.”

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Author:Bryan Lee O'Malley

“You look hot. The straight men will want you, the gay men will want beauty tips, and the women will want to scratch your eyes out. If that isn't the stuff of fairy tales, I don't know what is.”

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Author:Zoey Dean

“Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that is similar to that of patriarchal straight men.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“...even if gay marriage were legalized there would still be gay men who didn't want to marry, gay men no other gay men would want to marry, and gay men who didn't want to leave the priesthood in order to marry.”

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Book:Skipping Towards Gomorrah

Source: Skipping Towards Gomorrah

“I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead.”

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Author:Elton John

“I'm a thirty-something gay man with a dodgy heart. I sell books for a living. Who wants to read about that?”

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Book:A Dangerous Thing

Source: A Dangerous Thing

“Homophobia and the closet are allies. Like an unhealthy co-dependent relationship they need each other to survive. One plays the victim living in fear and shame while the other plays the persecutor policing what is ‘normal’. The only way to dismantle homophobia is for every gay man and lesbian in the world to come out and live authentic lives. Once they realise how normal we are and see themselves in us….the controversy is over.”

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Author:Anthony Venn-Brown

“We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.”

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.”

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Author:Cher

“As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely.”

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Author:Ned Rorem

“All of my life I've spent a lot of time with gay men - Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson - who are my colleagues, coworkers, confidantes, my closest friends, but I never thought of who they slept with! They were just the people I loved. I could never understand why they couldn't be afforded the same rights and protections as all of the rest of us. There is no gay agenda, it's a human agenda”

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Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“In the gay world, [relationships] will always be open. There is no curbing the gay man.”

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Author:Patti Stanger

“As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes. However, as a gay man, I must decline.”