“Back in the eighties, people thought a vegan was someone from Vegas. It's a different world now and I feel lucky to have been a part of the revolution, both for animal rights and gay rights.” PeopleWorldFeelsHas BeensDifferentAnimalRightsRevolutionGayLuckyVeganAnimal RightsEightyVegasGay RightsDifferent Worlds Author:Dan Mathews
“Attitudes toward gays have shifted much like they have for animals. People have a hard time relating to those who are different and often strike out against them in ignorance. But society is really starting to wise up at last as more enlightened generations emerge.” PeopleDifferentHardLastsAnimalAttitudeWiseGenerationsIgnoranceGayStartingStrikesHard TimesEnlightened Author:Dan Mathews
“We see differences in people and seem to be afraid of people. The black or white or gay or straight - I don't necessarily look for differences but for similarities. We need to be looking out for each other.” PeopleNeedsLooksSeemsBlackDifferencesWhiteGaySimilarityBlack Or White Author:James Blunt
“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
“If we were to sit and discuss abortion and legalizing marijuana and gay marriage and all those things, you'd be surprised where you'd see me on the side of some of that stuff. People get their opinions - as soon as you're a real flag-waving patriot, then all of a sudden you're a conservative.” PeopleIfsRealStuffSidesOpinionGayConservativeAbortionFlagsMarijuanaPatriotGay MarriageLegalizing MarijuanaFlag Waving Author:Toby Keith
“When gay people can get married, then I'll get married.” PeopleGayMarriedGay People Author:Mila Kunis
“As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.” PeopleWorldLoveKindAgeSchoolChristianTurnsLeftChurchJusticeChangedNeededGayHigh SchoolInjusticeLabelsTeenagerCategoriesGood PeopleIgnoredLiedPeace And JusticeContainersSortingBeing LiedGreat ChristianGay FriendInjustice In The World Author:Nadia Bolz-Weber
“The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people?” PeopleWayNiceMovementGayChineseCommunistCapitalistBeing NiceGay PeopleStunning Author:Frank Schaeffer
“Liberals in blue states just think that when they look in the mirror and say to themselves "I'm for the environment, I'm for the children, I'm for the gay people, I'm against war," it pits automatically, and the oppressor/oppressed leftist mindset that anyone that would disagree with them isn't conservative, they're crazy. They're Nazis, they're facists, they're evil.” PeopleThinkingLooksChildrenWarStatesEvilEnvironmentCrazyGayMirrorsBlueConservativeMindsetDisagreeOppressedNaziPitsOppressorsGay PeopleLeftistsAgainst War Author:Andrew Breitbart
“You'll have many gay people on your side who just because they're gay, doesn't mean they're for gay marriage.” PeopleMeanSidesGayGay MarriageYour SideGay People Author:Andrew Breitbart
“Those people who espouse conservatism that causes them to be under permanent attack by the left gay activists cabal, those people are in need of a protection. They're not doing that because it's fun. They're not taking that stand because it's fun, they're taking that stand because that's what they believe in, and they need to have somebody standing up for them, and I'm more than happy to do so.” PeopleNeedsBelieveLeftFunCausesGayStandingProtectionPermanentActivistConservatismCabal Author:Andrew Breitbart
“I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.” PeopleThinkingIssuesGayConversationGenderSexualityGender Issues Author:Pam Grier
“I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.” PeopleThinkingWantAbleGayConcernedPropertyDiscriminationHospitalsBreakdown Author:Barack Obama
“Pushing gun control drives people [in my district] crazy, gay marriage, abortion, deficit spending.All of that stuff adds up to be a problem for Democrats.” PeopleProblemStuffCrazyGayGunAddDemocratSpendingAbortionPushingGun ControlDeficitGay MarriageDeficit Spending Author:Collin Peterson
“We [Democrats] have become a party of assembling all these different groups, the women's caucus and the black caucus and the Hispanic caucus and the lesbian-gay-transgender caucus and so forth, and that doesn't relate to people out in rural America.” PeopleDifferentAmericaBlackPartyGroupsGayDemocratRelateTransgenderHispanicCaucusAssemblingRural America Author:Collin Peterson
“I try really hard to ask people to take a look at their bookshelves. Are there female writers on it? Gay writers? Writers of color? There should be.” PeopleShouldTryingLooksHardAsksColorGayFemaleBookshelvesFemale Writers Author:Jodi Picoult
“Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender.” PeopleYearsTodayYoungLosesGayAwfulTeenagerTransgender Author:Cleve Jones
“Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who can't live up to what you expect of them as gay people?” PeopleSeemsEasierGayDisappointedLarryGay PeopleKramerGay Friend Author:Kevin Sessums
“I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldGay Author:Kevin Sessums
“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
“Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry [Kramer] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it's on the surface or not, and I am not. But another thing is when we met, there still wasn't exactly a gay/straight divide in the minds of a lot of straight people. There weren't any gay people, as far as we knew, at Yale.” PeopleWritingMindStillsProblemIssuesMetsGayAssumingSurfaceDividesLarryGay PeopleYaleKramer Author:Kevin Sessums
“One of the few nice things about [time in Yale] was you got to know people before there were labels on them, so you got to know them as people, not as either gay or straight. Because as far as we knew, we thought everyone was straight.” PeopleKnowsNiceGayLabelsNice ThingsYale Author:Kevin Sessums
“Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar Wilde scene. Even though I also knew there was such a thing as the Harvard-Yale game, I was still a little surprised that Harvard had a football team. I just assumed if there were such a thing as gay people, that they were nothing like us. Little did I know that probably half the swim team at Yale was gay.” PeopleIfsKnowsKindLittlesStillsGuyGamesCitiesHalfTeamEffectsFootballSceneGaySwimOscarsHarvardGay PeopleFootball TeamKansasYaleCapesWildeKansas CityGnarlySwim Team Author:Kevin Sessums
“People may have said, "The dude's gay; how are we going to market this?" But it's not an issue for me, because being out is very freeing.” PeopleMaySaidIssuesGay Author:Cheyenne Jackson
“I understand why the gay community wants to embrace actors who are out. People want to be represented.” PeopleWantActorsCommunityGayEmbraceGay Community Author:Cheyenne Jackson
“[John Boswell] introduction of the concept of "gay" (in the way he defines it) provides us both with a useful instrument of research and at the same time a better comprehension of how people actually conceive of themselves and their sexual behavior.” PeopleWayGayBehaviorResearchConceptsInstrumentsIntroductionComprehension Author:Michel Foucault
“It's an incredibly limited sphere those tabloids have, isn't it? Basically, they can accuse people of being gay and they can accuse people of taking drugs, but they can't get any more sensational without entering into the realm of incredibly bad taste.” PeopleTasteGayDrugRealmsSpheresEnteringTabloidsBeing GayBad TasteSensational Author:George Michael
“Hillary Clinton has shown no indication whatsoever of stemming the tide of Islamic immigration, or stopping our mollycoddling, and pandering to Islam. These things are direct threats. Not just to culture, but to the lives of gay people in America.” PeopleAmericaCultureGayDirectThreatClintonIslamImmigrationIslamicTidesStoppingIndicationGay People Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“America's got to look after America again. That means taking a realistic appraisal of who is actually at risk in this country, not whining feminists, or whinging Black Lives Matter activists, but gay people and women at risk from Islam. Also, so people in this country who have been treated badly, lied to and lied about. An honest appraisal of who actually needs government attention in this country. And when all of that is done, then we can think about interfering elsewhere again.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLooksMeanHas BeensCountryMatterDoneGovernmentAmericaBlackAttentionRiskHonestGayIslamFeministTreatedActivistRealisticElsewhereInterfereLiedBlack Lives MatterGay PeopleWhiningAppraisalBlack Lives Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“People aren't going into gay bars in Orlando and saying, "Jesus Christ!" They're not going into the Charlie Hebdo, the 85-year-old priest who was beheaded on his alter, [the assailant wasn't] yelling Jesus Christ.” PeopleYearsJesusChristGayJesus ChristBarsPriestsCharlieYellingOrlandoCharlie Hebdo Author:Michael T. Flynn
“I say that is because those are the times where sometimes you feel actually a little bit hurt. Because you feel like saying to these folks, "[Don't] you think if I could do it, I [would] have just done it. Do you think that the only problem is that I don't care enough about the plight of poor people, or gay people, or immigrants, or ...?"” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsLittlesSometimesDoneEnoughProblemCareBitsHurtPoorGayLittle BitFolksDon't CareI Don't CareIf I CouldImmigrantsIt HurtsPoor PeopleGay PeoplePlight Author:Barack Obama
“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
“Today, the gay and lesbian people are accepted. Their families are welcome in the units where they serve. This is not so for transgender people in any way. But, nevertheless, it could be.” PeopleWayTodayGayAcceptedWelcomeNeverthelessUnitsTransgender Author:Allyson Robinson
“I felt a variation of the fear that a lot of gay people have, that their families will reject them. I thought if I were to come out to the world then I would risk losing them.” PeopleIfsWorldFeltRiskGayLosingRejectsVariationGay People Author:Candace Gingrich-Jones
“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
“Whatever column you fall in - Christian, gay, straight, Black, White - there is no world where people exist that are exactly like you. No one group of people can righteously rule the world. There will be people who differ in opinion, and even in that difference of opinion, we must respect each other.” PeopleWorldChristianFallBlackDifferencesWhiteOpinionGroupsLike YouGayColumnsBlack WhiteDifferences Of OpinionRespect Each Other Author:T.I.
“Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.” PeopleShareGayDefinedDeniedGay People Author:Evan Wolfson
“I would say except when I have been attacked the black community has seldom seen fit to even mention the gay aspect. And since when I have been attacked I have usually been defended by the black community, I would say that the black newspapers have played it very straight. If I was attacked they simply published that I was attacked, if I was defended they simply said I had been defended. But I don't think they have taken any effort at maligning me or maligning gays or making any effort to give to people anything that wasn't news.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingHas BeensSaidBlackCommunityEffortTakenFitGayNewsAspectNewspapersBlack CommunitySimply Said Author:Bayard Rustin
“You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people. Therefore join the movement as individuals against anti-Semitism, join the movements for the rights of Hispanics, the rights of women, the rights of gays. In other words, I think that each movement has to stand on its own feet because it has a particular agenda, but it can ask other people.” PeopleThinkingAsksIndividualRightsFeetMovementParticularGayAgendasAnti Semitism Author:Bayard Rustin
“If people do not organize in the name of their interest, the world will not take them as being serious. And that is the chief reason that every person who is gay should join some gay organization. Because he must prove to the world that he cares about his own freedom.” PeopleIfsWorldShouldPersonsReasonCareNamesInterestSeriousGayProveOrganizationChiefsOrganize Author:Bayard Rustin
“Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice.” PeopleShouldTryingBlackGayInjusticeActivistCoalitionsElimination Author:Bayard Rustin
“[Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he's saying, I'm not for gay marriage because I'm a Christian. Jump off a bridge! I mean what the hell are you talking about? You know, I mean, what's he doing now? He's evolving. Evolving? Well, evolve for Christ's sake! And this is a guy - the whole gay community, and the whole environmental community and all these other people said, he's our guy.” PeopleKnowsWellsMeanSaidWholeRunningChristianGuyChristCommunityTalkingHellGayEnvironmentalSakeBarackEvolveBridgesSenateGay MarriageGay Community Author:Bill Ayers
“Popular culture does a lot to shape attitudes. You can't compare different communities to each other, but in my lifetime the gay and lesbian community has become much more mainstream in society. I would venture to say it's in part because people began to feel more comfortable when they saw that group on TV.” PeopleFeelsDoeDifferentCultureCommunityAttitudeSawsGroupsTvsGayShapesComfortableLifetimeCompareMainstreamVenturePopular Culture Author:Jay Ruderman
“I was like, "This is a new thing that the gay people have decided? That's the gayest thing I've ever heard in my life." You can't do that. You can't decide that a word is forbidden now collectively amongst your group of human beings, that the word is a slanderous evil nasty word about homosexuals. It's not, the word doesn't mean that. And sometimes it's a good word to use in comedy. That's what your friend has to realize when he's at a bar just yelling out the word.” PeopleHumansMeanSometimesUseEvilRealizingHuman BeingsComedyHeardGroupsGayDecidedBarsNew ThingsNastyHomosexualForbiddenYellingGay PeopleGood Words Author:Joe Rogan
“I have issues with liberals, which includes many gay people. I have found some liberal gays to be extremely intolerant of other points of view.” PeopleFoundViewsIssuesGayPoint Of ViewGay People Author:Jeff Gannon
“I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty of the apartheid system which existed in the south. Then white people began to get on the freedom buses and travel to the south and be part of the voter registration drives and they... some of them were beaten and some of them were murdered but they stood with the African-American community and the civil rights movement. It's time for straight people to do that today and it is time for gay people to insist that they do that today.” PeopleTodayAmericaCommunityWhiteRightsMovementGaySouthCrueltyCivil RightsAfrican AmericanVotersBusBeatenSegregationParallelsBrutalityCivil Rights MovementGay PeopleApartheidRegistrationVoter Registration Author:Cleve Jones
“I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school, I'm from gay liberation, we wanted to end war forever and smash the patriarchy and these are values I still hold dear but, I believe that any person who wants to get married should have that right and I know that Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people serve with distinction in the armed forces, and that when they are killed, supposedly serving our country in these wars, that I personally do not support, their partners back home do not receive death benefits.” PeopleKnowsWantShouldBelievePersonsStillsWarEndsCountryHomeWantedSchoolDesireValuesForceI BelieveSupportForeverGayBenefitsMarriedShould HaveSoldierDearPartnersOur CountryLiberationDistinctionServingPatriarchyBack HomeOld SchoolBisexualArmed ForcesPersonal DesireGay Liberation Author:Cleve Jones
“In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.” PeopleMenKindShowsAmericaUsedLostForcePresidentRightsAirFashionTvsGayDiversityFemaleCrossesFolksVicesAll KindsUsed To BeRadicalDesignerHostPilotsPakistanTransTalibanVice PresidentAdvocatingFashion DesignerAir ForceTalk ShowsFlamboyant Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then.” PeopleHardEnoughFacesImagineGayLifetimeCrueltyTransgenderTransBeing Gay Author:Patti Smith
“It became inescapable that as conservatives were wrong about people of color, they were also wrong about women. They were wrong about gay people. The only individual freedoms they seemed to get exercised about were the freedom to make a profit and the freedom to own a gun.” PeopleIndividualColorGayGunProfitGay PeopleIndividual Freedom Author:Steve Erickson