“The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has new balloons this year including the Pillsbury Doughboy balloon and the first openly gay balloon. Also the Thomas Tank Engine balloon, and they even have the Ebola nurse balloon.” YearsFirstsGayIncludingEnginesNurseTanksParadesBalloonsThanksgiving DayEbolaMacy's Author:David Letterman
“Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and have or adopt children. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else?” PeopleShouldChildrenHomeAbleRightsGayShould HaveIncludingGay PeopleLegal Rights Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.” PeopleKnowsTwoActorsGayIncludingProductionsVersionsDramaticAccomplishedApartmentLandlord Author:John Ritter
“I think basically what The American People is about is that we've been here from the very beginning, and that has never ever been acknowledged in the history books. John Winthrop wasn't off the boat ten seconds before he passes a law that homosexuals should be hanged. And then he hung 'em, including an attempt to hang his own son when he found out he was gay.” PeopleThinkingShouldBookLawFoundSonGayTenIncludingBoatEmsSecondsHungHomosexualHistory Books Author:Kevin Sessums
“There are still so many misconceptions out there, including that gays come from bad families. Maybe I don't completely change people's minds, but I make them think twice.” PeopleThinkingMindStillsGayIncludingMisconceptionThink Twice Author:Candace Gingrich-Jones
“I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.” LittlesUseTalkingGayIncludingProfessionBelieverUncomfortableOrganizedHierarchyPersecutedOrganized ReligionNon BelieverDemoralized Author:Adrienne Rich