“When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible.” PeopleTryingForceReadyGaySuicideHorribleBulliedBeing BulliedCommitting Suicide Author:Ricky Martin
“A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be "gay," I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.” ThinkingWayTryingDifferentSeemsAgeCultureIndividualSocialGayActivityEthicsRelationIntensePsychologicalVisibleMaskYieldTraitsHomosexualDifferent Ages Author:Michel Foucault
“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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenTryingHumansProblemWantedJesusMiddleGayUnderstoodCrossesIntelligentForgivingEastCompassionateMiddle EastGay MenHuman Problems Author:Elton John
“Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.” PeopleThinkingTryingGayWittyWitnessGay PeopleJehovahBossypants Author:Tina Fey
“I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.” PeopleKnowsTryingMadeHardPartyKnow HowGayWittySexyMade ItFrightenedTrying So Hard Author:Charles Bukowski
“The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise.” InspirationalTryingMotivationalRememberLyingSecretSpecialGayPressureWho You AreDenyAcceptedConvinceLgbtOverwhelmingTeensTransRemember YouRemembers YouBisexualGay Pride Author:Alex Sanchez
“Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.” ThinkingMenShouldTryingIdeasSupportGayGardenDefinedOne ManAdamDirtGay MarriageOne WomanAdam And Eve Author:Kirk Cameron
“I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, "You just haven't met the right girl yet.” TryingCountryBigsGirlForceCitiesHavensMetsGayFolksCousinBig CitiesRight Girl Book:Bossypants Source: Bossypants
“* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting or writing. * to know that millions of others are unhappy and that life is a gentleman's agreement to grin and paint your face gay so others will feel they are silly to be unhappy, and try to catch the contagion of joy, while inside so many are dying of bitterness and unfulfillment.” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsWritingTryingFacesLife IsJoyMillionsPiecesDyingPaintingGayPaintSillyUnhappyGentlemanAgreementYour FaceBitternessContagionUnfulfillment Author:Sylvia Plath
“I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.” PeopleTryingLongProblemPleaseGayLifestyleAllowingNo ProblemGay People Author:Benjamin Carson
“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.” MenShouldTryingEnergyJusticeMilitaryGayDespairDiversitySocial JusticeLifelongGay MenPacifistQuaker Author:Ned Rorem
“I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try.” IfsTryingBelieveLooksIdeasMatterHardAbleAmericaYoungI BelieveBlackWhitePoorRichWillingHard WorkPromiseGayWho You AreNativeLgbtNative AmericanFoundersAsianDisabledHispanicBlack Or WhiteRich Or PoorWhere You ComeWilling To Try Author:Barack Obama
“I really think, without trying to give us credit that we don't deserve, I really feel like Kurt and Blaine are a modern version of Lucy and Ricky. Oh, I'm Lucy for sure.” ThinkingGivingFeelsTryingModernGayDeserveCreditVersionsLucy Author:Chris Colfer
“I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen."” PeopleWayTryingBelieveHumorHappensAmericaFacesReligionAtheismGayFingersFeministLifestyleAlternativesPaganRemembrance For 9 11 Author:Jerry Falwell