“Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.” IfsShouldValuesGayProgressiveIrrelevantAdaptingScouting Author:Bear Grylls
“Most Jewish feminists and gays that I know remain angry and frustrated by Jewish progressives. Deeply committed to progressive causes, frequently in the vanguard of political action, Jewish feminist and gays find ourselves fighting for the rights of others without the secure knowledge that others will fight for us.” KnowsActionPoliticalFightingCausesRightsFeminismGayAngryCommittedFeministSecureProgressiveFrustratedPolitical ActionVanguard Author:Irena Klepfisz
“I'm also for gay marriage, because I say they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us. Love is bigger than government. And Texas, by the way, has a very progressive law about gay couples adopting kids. We just won't let them get married. So that's not common sense.” WayGovernmentKidsLawLove IsCommonCoupleGayMarriedBiggerCommon SenseMiserableProgressiveTexasGay MarriageAdoptingGay Couples Author:Kinky Friedman
“In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.” RightsPolicyGayProgressiveGay Rights Author:Trevor Noah
“I had been brought up in an elementary school where, my first few grades, I remember being specifically told that my teachers were gay. I was just that age and that was just how it was, and my parents were very... You know, that's how I was raised. Like super-progressive.” KnowsFirstsAgeSchoolRememberParentTeacherGayRaisedGradesProgressiveElementary School Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.” WellsValuesLeftCommunityRightsFeminismGayStandingMinoritiesProgressiveMainstreamConsistencyGay RightsMainstream Society Author:Maajid Nawaz
“People like Sean Penn, he is someone that is politically progressive and yet is still at the top of his game in the industry. So I love that he is out there just virtually shaming all the people that voted for Prop 8. He was a really great example of a straight ally, someone who used his talent and used his ability to further our cause, not just for political progressiveness but also specifically for gay marriage and specifically for Harvey Milk's entire life.” PeopleStillsPoliticalUsedGamesCausesAbilityTalentExampleIndustryGayProgressiveAlliesMilkReally GreatGay MarriagePropsSeanHarvey Author:Margaret Cho
“I've always been progressive on social issues: pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-gay rights - even when I was a Republican. The big difference is that I once believed the private sector would address America's social problems. But then I saw firsthand that this wasn't going to happen.” ProblemBigsHappensAmericaChoicesSocialDifferencesIssuesSawsRightsRepublicanGayGunAddressesProgressiveGun ControlSocial IssuesPrivate SectorGay RightsSocial ProblemsPro GunPro Gun ControlPro Gay Author:Arianna Huffington