“Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.” RunningGayFundamentalsCoreBeing GayRepressed Author:James McGreevey
“A bunch of money-grubbin', greenhouse-gasing, seal-clubbing, oil-drilling, Bible-thumping, missile-firing, right-to-life-ing, lethal-injecting hypocrites. People whose idea of a good time is strapping a dead panda to a Lincoln Navigator and running over everybody in the gay parade.” PeopleIdeasRunningGayOilBunchGood TimesHypocriteMissilesSealsParadesGreenhousesFiringRight To LifeDrillingPandasNavigatorsOil Drilling Author:Richard Jeni
“Gay marriage is a tricky issue for the Democrats due to the fact that - like taxes, defense and education - they are forced to lie about their position when running for office. In other words, Democrats are gay marriage supporters trapped in the bodies of candidates who oppose gay marriage. And no issue-reassignment surgery can help them.” FactsHelpingBodyRunningLyingIssuesPositionGayTaxesOfficeDemocratDuesDefenseCandidatesTrappedSurgerySupporterGay MarriageTrickyRunning For Office Author:Ann Coulter
“I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.” KindStillsHardWould BeRunningCoursesKnowingRightsGayOfficeDecidedAgendasGay RightsBeing GayDishonorable Author:Barney Frank
“I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.” WritingRunningRememberLiteratureGayWho You AreRunning AwayDentistBeing GayPostman Author:Mark Haddon
“You can't have Rosie on The View and Elton John packing Mom and Pop in at Caesars Palace and gay people all over television, and then have these politicians run out there with a straight face and say that gay and lesbian relationships are a threat to the family. We are winning in the culture - which is why we'll ultimately win the political war.” PeopleWarRunningFacesPoliticalCultureWinningViewsTelevisionMomPoliticianGayThreatPopsPalacesGay PeoplePackingRosieStraight Face Author:Dan Savage
“I still come from a very working-class family. My mother's still a cleaner. And my brother is the gas man. And my other brother runs a cab. I have become a stratified, different, exotic beast, even more so than I was when I was a young gay man. I just sort of built on that. Now that I've made several films, I don't even know how to placate them with money like so many people do with their families.” PeopleKnowsMenMadeStillsDifferentRunningFilmYoungMotherClassKnow HowBrotherGayBuiltMy BrotherBeastGasWorking ClassExoticCleanersGay MenCab Author:Duncan Roy
“I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.” IfsFirstsWould BeRunningGayClosets Author:Dolly Parton
“I don't have a chance [on being elected Mayor of New Orleans]. I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform.” RunningChanceGayMarijuanaPlatformsTaxationNew OrleansGay MarriageMayors Author:Brad Pitt
“I'm serious. I've got to get people to realize that the government is full of it. Republicans and Democrats want to argue over stuff that's not important, like gay marriage or the war in Iraq or illegal immigration... When I run - if I run - we're going to talk about real issues like improving our schools, cleaning up our neighborhoods of drugs and crime and making Alabama a better place for all people.” PeopleIfsWantImportantWarRealGovernmentRunningSchoolStuffRealizingIssuesCrimeSeriousRepublicanGayDrugDemocratIraqArguingImmigrationNeighborhoodIllegalImprovingBetter PlaceCleaningGay MarriageAlabamaIllegal ImmigrationCleaning Up Author:Charles Barkley
“Abortion and gay marriage are the political hot-buttons of the day. There are lot of things going wrong in the world, hate is running amok, so why just focus on these two hot-buttons and not everything else?” WorldTwoRunningPoliticalHateFocusGayHotAbortionButtonsGay Marriage Author:Robert Hood
“If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith or the leadership of the faith. I would never suggest that the Mormon Church has to consecrate gay unions. But homosexuality runs at a fairly constant rate through all populations. There are many gay Mormons.” IfsWantRunningChurchFineGayMembersConstantUnionsRatePopulationHomosexuality Author:Andrew Solomon
“In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going (vocalizing) like the chords on "I Walk The Line." And I always wanted to write a love song using that theme, that tune.” WritingRunningWantedUsedSongForceLinesWalksAirGayGuitarThemeTunesChordsAir ForceRecorders Author:Johnny Cash
“Rush Limbaugh has answered - it's the rich liberals who own the banks and run the government, and of course run the media, and they don't care about you - they just want to give everything away to illegal immigrants and gays and communists and so on.” WantGivingGovernmentCareRunningCoursesRichMediaGayDon't CareImmigrantsIllegalCommunistIllegal Immigrants Author:Noam Chomsky
“[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
“Business is business. You know how that works. Because stations run on ad money. If they're playing a gay artist, then ad money dries up. So they have to be careful.” IfsKnowsRunningArtistKnow HowGayCarefulStationsAdsBe Careful Author:Bob Mould
“My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.” WorldWarWould BeRunningFunnyRomanceGreaterMilitaryGayEmphasisNo WarApparel Author:Roseanne Barr
“During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.” ThinkingMayEndsFactsRunningTogetherLastsPoliticalNightPresidentMarriageGayDebatePlanningExpertsFriendlyAccusedLast NightGay MarriagePresident BushJohn KerryRunning Together Author:Conan O'Brien
“In today's US, it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.” RunningTodayGayOfficeJewAfrican American Author:Salman Rushdie
“My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.” PeopleRunningCitiesDadMetsGayMy DadDesperateNeighborhoodCopDepressingCorpsesGay PeopleHomicide Author:Dan Savage
“Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.” YearsTwoRunningKidsUsedGrowing UpFourGrowingGayPercentMy FriendsHanging OutBuddyKentucky Author:Hal Sparks