“We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.” UseChurchIssuesClearTeachingSonGayMethodRelatedAbortionGay MarriageContraceptives Author:Pope Francis
“John Paulk, the poster boy for 'ex-gays' was found in a gay bar in Washington. He said he was there to use the bathroom. But nobody thought to ask him for what.” SaidUseAsksFoundBoysGayBarsBathroomExesPostersJohn Paul Author:Kate Clinton
“I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.” PeopleBelieveChildrenLongUseSpeakHeardGayLong TimeClaimsDelicateSaying No Book:Tendencies Source: Tendencies
“My personal view is very simple: What happens in your bedroom, it's up to you. If you want to use gay marriage as an affectionate kind of thing you're doing, do it.” IfsWantKindUseHappensSimpleViewsGayBedroomGay MarriageUp To YouAffectionatePersonal Views Author:Marion Barry
“In my dream world gay people in America would get the right to marry, and not a one of them would use that right.” PeopleWorldUseDreamAmericaGayGay PeopleDream World Author:David Sedaris
“Republicans in Congress are getting concerned that President Obama will try to use the final year of his term to push through too many controversial laws. Obama would've responded but he was busy drafting his new 'mandatory Mexican gay weed' bill.” TryingYearsUseLawPresidentTermRepublicanGayConcernedBillsFinalsBusyCongressWeedPresident ObamaMexicanControversialDrafting Author:Jimmy Fallon
“It's not dissimilar to what we see with the president of Russia, who uses a minority there, the lesbian, gay, bisexual community ... and he goes after them with great relish because he knows that it's going to resonate with a part of the population.” KnowsUsePresidentCommunityGayPopulationRussiaMinoritiesRelishBisexual Author:Thomas Mulcair
“Words can mean different things to different people. It is important to understand what people mean when they use a certain word. Let's make an example. Take the word gay. Fifty years ago, gay meant exclusively cheerfulness, lighthearted excitement, merry or bright colors. Today this word has a different meaning. You won't call a cheerful person gay because it could be understood as something else.” PeopleYearsMeanPersonsImportantDifferentUseTodayCertainExampleColorGayUnderstoodYears AgoExcitementFiftyDifferent ThingsCheerfulDifferent PeoplesMerryCheerfulnessDifferent MeaningsBright Colors Author:Ali Sina
“There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out by the most visible and well-funded lesbian and gay rights organizations in the US and those that seek to use grassroots strategies, center issues of race and poverty, and aim to dismantle harmful institutions and conditions to redistribute life chances.” WellsLooksDifferentUseChanceRacePovertyPathIssuesRightsConditionsGayModelsOrganizationAimInstitutionsStrategyVisibleCompetingTransGay RightsAdvocacyGrassroots Author:Dean Spade
“I wasn't raised in a household where it was considered abnormal to be gay. So for me to meet people who use the word 'f-ggot' as an insult, with a derogatory meaning, I can't take it.” PeopleI CanUseGayRaisedInsultHouseholdAbnormalDerogatory Author:Ariana Grande
“The right, like Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbauggh, use women and the black man and the Hispanic immigrant and the gay man as a scapgoat for society's ills. They pretend it's about traditional family values, but that's a bullshit phrase that means nothing to me. They like to use us all. They use pro-life as a way to hate women and slam women, dressed up in the nobility of saving unborn fetuses. I think it's just misogyny.” ThinkingMenWayMeanUseValuesHateBlackGayTraditionalSavingPhrasesImmigrantsBullshitMisogynyNobilityUnbornPro LifeSlamDressed UpGay MenHispanicFamily ValuesFetusTraditional Family Author:Janeane Garofalo
“I thinking gay and straight people use the same putters, it's not a matter of putters but a matter of hole selection.” PeopleThinkingMatterUseGayHolesSelectionGay And Straight Author:Jon Stewart
“I learned this one growing up in Texas and, subsequently, living in Los Angeles: always use the 'usted' form when speaking to a Spanish official. Mexican border patrol cops don't like it when you call them 'amigo,' give them a hardy pat on the back, slip a $20 in their pocket. No bueno, it doesn't fly. By the way, those of you not laughing at that obviously took French in high school, and that was a gay choice.” WayGivingUseSchoolFormChoicesLaughingGrowing UpGrowingGayHigh SchoolBordersOfficialsPocketsLos AngelesTexasSlipsCopMexicanHardyBorder PatrolMexican Border Author:Iliza Shlesinger
“If you're a member of a despised group, look out! They'll find a drug and associate you with its use. There are a lot of people in the gay community using methamphetamine and paying taxes and going to work and doing well.” PeopleIfsWellsLooksUseCommunityGroupsGayDrugTaxesMembersAssociatesGoing To WorkDespisedUsing MeGay CommunityPaying TaxesMethamphetamine Author:Carl Hart
“You have to take your hat off to the homosexual and gay community cause right now they're as strong as black people USE to be when it comes to their rights.” PeopleUseStrongCausesBlackCommunityRightsRight NowGayHatsBlack PeopleHomosexualGay CommunityHats OffUse To Be Author:Tyrese Gibson
“People that are much younger in areas that are much more, kind of, disenfranchised, I guess, as far as the gay movement goes, they still have a language that they've discovered around things. And they have a vocabulary to use, and they have a way to express themselves even when they're not accepted.” PeopleWayKindStillsUseLanguageMovementGayAreasAcceptedVocabularyDisenfranchised Author:Amy Ray
“When I was writing the book, I thought "Who wants to hear another story about some actor who lost his way?" But my story is a little unique in that I realized when I was 14 years old that I was different. I think a lot of gay people use drugs and alcohol to quell that fear and shame - especially people of my age.” PeopleThinkingWayWantWritingYearsLittlesBookDifferentStoriesUseAgeActorsLostGayDrugUniqueShameAlcoholI RealizedGay PeopleDrugs And Alcohol Author:Leslie Jordan
“I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay is the last adjective I would use to describe myself. The idea of being gay, like a little sparkler, never occurs to me. So if you ask me if I'm gay, I say no.” IfsLittlesIdeasEnoughUseLastsCertainAsksTroubleGayAsk MeMelancholyActivistHomosexualAdjectivesBeing GayDescribe MyselfMorose Author:Richard Rodriguez
“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 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
“While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.” BelieveFactsUseChoicesI BelieveTermGayChosenPreciseOrientationBisexualBisexualityGay Relationship Author:Cynthia Nixon
“Gays don't have a lot of testosterone. I'm talking about that they use both sides of their brain. Straight men only use one side. Gay men are very bright, very handsome... they put themselves better together. They dress good, they decorate, they clean, they cook.” MenUseTogetherSidesBrainTalkingGayDressesCleanCooksBoth SidesHandsomeGay MenTestosteroneBetter Together Author:Patti Stanger
“Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right to keep the fruits of your labor....I, in a way, don’t like to use those terms: gay rights, women’s rights, minority rights, religious rights. There’s only one type of right. It’s the right to your liberty.” WayShouldMeanUseTermReligiousLibertyRightsTypeGayLaborShould HaveFruitMinoritiesWomens RightsGay RightsReligious Rights Author:Ron Paul
“Legalizing gay marriage is not about making it possible for gay people to become couples. It's about giving the Left the power to force anti-religious values on our children. Once they legalize gay marriage, it will be the bludgeon they use to make sure that it becomes illegal to teach traditional values in the schools.” PeopleGivingChildrenUseSchoolValuesLeftForceReligiousTeachCoupleGayOur ChildrenTraditionalIllegalGay MarriageHomophobiaGay PeopleAnti ReligiousTraditional ValuesReligious Values Author:Orson Scott Card
“Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets.” PeopleUseSpeakLanguageBlackWaterWhiteDrinkGayEqualLet MeTablesDeterminedParksBusFraudBlack And WhiteFountainToiletsGay MarriageRosaMotifsWater FountainSeparate But Equal Author:David Lammy