“I want to keep changing the world. It's possible. The black gay lead is ready. It's time.” WorldWantBlackReadyGayChanging The World Author:Billy Porter
“I think they should let gays in the military because we are the United States of America. And if a gay person wants to serve his or her country, why should they not be allowed to?” IfsThinkingWantShouldPersonsCountryStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryGayUnited States Of America Author:Jesse Ventura
“The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it abhors government waste. It believes strongly in fiscal responsibility such as balanced budgets. It is pro-economic growth. It is concerned about the environment. It is intolerant of people on welfare who disdain the notion of work. But it wants poor kids to have school lunches and it wants to spend money to have good schools. In sum, most Americans are sensible, good-hearted, and prudent. The issue, then, is whether there is a political party that can welcome them home.” PeopleWantBelieveHomeGovernmentKidsSchoolAmericaPoliticalGrowthPoorPartyResponsibilityIssuesEnvironmentEconomicGayWasteConcernedNotionCoreWelcomeBudgetsWelfareRacistLunchSensibleBalancedHostilePolitical PartiesOffendedHeartedEconomic GrowthPrudentDisdainGood SchoolGood HeartedBalanced BudgetFiscal ResponsibilitySchool LunchGovernment Waste Author:Paul Tsongas
“I think it's kind of awkward when everyone knows you're gay but you don't say it. I had been thinking about coming out for almost a year before I did. I thought about it seriously on the plane ride home from the World Cup, while I was casually talking to my friend Lori Lindsey. She said, "Dude, you should just come out." She was right. Everyone in my life already knew. If you want to stand up and fight for equal rights but then won't even stand up for yourself and say "I'm gay" - that just started to feel weird.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldWantFeelsShouldYearsKindSaidHomeFightingTalkingRightsGayEqualMy FriendsCupsPlanesComing OutAwkwardEqual RightsWorld CupStand Up For YourselfPlane Rides Author:Megan Rapinoe
“In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.” PeopleIfsWantBookRealDesirePleasureInterestingPayWillingGaySaintReal LifeDullWickedSinnerGood LifeGood PeopleShort LifeWant To Be HappyOne For Me Author:Louisa May Alcott
“And now gay people want to get married... Haven't they suffered enough?” PeopleWantEnoughHavensGayMarriedGay People Author:George Carlin
“Reverend Ted Haggard's followers still think he's not gay. I'm not kidding. In their world, there are no gay people. There are just straight people who are sinning. They don't want to do it, but the Devil makes them! He targets people like Reverend Ted. That's how it happened. The Devil got hold of Reverend Ted, and Ted said, 'Get thee behind me, Satan! And put it in, gently'.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantSaidStillsBehindsHappenedGayDevilTheeSatanTargetFollowersGay PeopleSinningReverendsHaggard Author:Bill Maher
“I just don't understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can't figure it. I don't understand. If you're poor, if you're any kind of minority - gay, black, Latino, anything. If you're not a rich born-again-Christian, I don't get it.” IfsWantKindChristianBlackBornPoorRichFiguresRepublicanGayMinoritiesLatinoBorn Again Author:Cher
“It's amazing how the world has changed because, at that time [2005], a lot of actors didn't want to play a gay role.” WorldWantPlayActorsRolesChangedGay Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court.” WantStatesUnitedUnited StatesGayVoteCourtCurrentsSupremeSupreme CourtGay MarriageHomophobes Author:Barney Frank
“Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government banning gay marriage and so forth.” WantGovernmentMilitaryRepublicanGayShrinksGay MarriageSurveillance Author:John Zerzan
“I'm left on a lot of things. If two gay guys want to get married, I could care less. If a nut case from overseas wants to blow up their wedding, that's when I'm right.” IfsWantTwoCareGuyLeftCasesGayMarriedBlowNutsCould Care LessGay Guy Author:Dennis Miller
“What is with this campy fixation on all things Ronald Reagan? They talk about him the way gay people talk about Barbra Streisand. I think they want him on a stamp so they can lick his ass. I think they wanted to name airports after him so they can say, "I'm coming into Reagan!"” PeopleThinkingWayWantGayAll ThingsAssStampsAirportsGay PeopleWant HimFixationStreisand Author:Bill Maher
“When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.” WantStreetsGayBallsClubsGangMotorcycleWork PlaceMotorcycle Gangs Author:Bernie Mac
“Gay people can't be proud of the country and want to defend it too. What's the army afraid is going to happen if gay people are in it. Private, shoot that man! I can't, he's adorable.” PeopleIfsMenWantI CanCountryHappensProudGayArmyBe ProudGay PeopleAdorable Author:Jon Stewart
“You talk about the Pro-Life movement being one of the great shames of our nation. I think, if you want number two, I think - I think it's that. I think it's absolute - it's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantTwoNationsNumbersCasesRightsMovementGayDeserveAbsolutesShamePro LifeBasic RightsTravesty Author:Jon Stewart
“Ridiculous that some people feel superior to the gay minority. They're the only couples you'll ever find poking around for ceramics and candle holders in the winery gift shop and both parties really want to be there.” PeopleWantFeelsPartyCoupleGayRidiculousSuperiorsShopsMinoritiesCandleCeramics Author:Richard Jeni
“It's hard on an all-gay softball team because no one knows if they want to be a pitcher or a catcher.” IfsKnowsWantHardTeamGayPitcherSoftballCatchersSoftball Team Author:Chelsea Handler
“I was definitely scared of fashion growing up just because I didn't want people to think I was gay. But now that I'm out, I feel like it's such a personal journey for me that I'm going on every single day where I feel more and more confident and comfortable to wear the clothes that I want to wear, and to have the interest that I have, and to paint my nails if I want to.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantFeelsInterestGrowing UpGrowingJourneyFashionGayComfortableClothesPaintScaredNailsPersonal Journey Author:Troye Sivan
“I think it's one thing to declare your sexuality, if you care about what that is. It's another thing to start talking in public about what you do in private and who you do it with. It's not that they [my significant others] don't want to be identified as gay, but that they don't want to be identified as ... with me.” IfsThinkingWantCareTalkingOne ThingGaySexualitySignificantIf You CareSignificant Other Author:Ian Mckellen
“I speak about androids because I think the android represents the new 'other.' You can compare it to being a lesbian or being a gay man or being a black woman ... What I want is for people who feel oppressed or feel like the 'other' to connect with the music and to feel like, 'She represents who I am.'” PeopleThinkingMenWantFeelsSpeakBlackGayWho I AmCompareOppressedBlack WomenGay MenAndroids Author:Janelle Monae
“The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every [writer] thinks, "I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk". I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!” ThinkingWantCommunityMinesPrayingGayJournalistWant MeHomosexualI Pray Author:Ricky Martin
“The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires and try to ask myself how these feelings can be made into concrete images... Are they really abnormal, or are they trying to tell us something we have repressed about ourselves, something we don't want to see, something about the darker side of the human condition itself?” WantTryingHumansMadeFeelingsDreamLife IsDesireAsksSidesConditionsLonelinessGayFilledCrueltyHuman ConditionConcreteAbnormalRepressedDarker SideGay Life Author:Arthur Tress
“I'm making an announcement: Not one penny will I give to AIDS anything as long as [public sex is allowed in gay bathhouses]. Not cent one. It's a preventable disease. If you don't want to prevent it, I don't want to pay for it.” IfsWantGivingLongSexPayGayDiseaseAidsCentsPenniesAnnouncements Author:Laura Schlessinger
“If you want me to be straight, gay, into monkeys, dating Kylie, whatever, I'm happy for people to project whatever onto me!” PeopleIfsWantGayProjectsDatingWant MeMonkeysYou Want MeIf You Want Me Author:Darren Hayes
“The good thing about being gay, though, I always believed, is that you didn't make anyone go to a wedding. Nobody wants to go to a wedding. Nobody. It kind of bothers me now that you have to go to gay weddings, too. I don't care. It's still a wedding. And I would give anybody double gifts if they would elope.” IfsWantGivingKindStillsCareGayGood ThingsDon't CareI Don't CareBotherAlways BelieveBeing Gay Author:David Sedaris
“I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti), AIDS (fund-raiser) because I don't want to be forever spouting, diluting the impact of addressing my most urgent concern - legal and social equality for gay people worldwide.” PeopleWantHas BeensCareSocialForeverIssuesGayWeaponsConcernImpactAtheistAidsNuclearPunishmentFundNuclear WeaponsUrgentReluctantGay PeopleCapital PunishmentAgainst ReligionSocial Equality Author:Ian Mckellen
“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
“I had seen the gay social chronicle done abundantly and done very well. And I didn't want to do any more of that myself, I wanted us to be included in the popular mainstream of entertainment fiction.” WantWellsDoneWantedSocialFictionGayEntertainmentMainstreamChronicles Author:Christopher Rice
“I think dragging someone out of the closet who isn't necessarily engaged in anti-gay activities can have a destructive effect on them and on us. I don't want unwilling gay people advocating on my behalf; I think that's a challenge.” PeopleThinkingWantChallengesEffectsGayActivityEngagedDestructiveClosetsBehalfWant UUnwillingGay PeopleAdvocatingAnti Gay Author:Christopher Rice
“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
“For them [LGBT group], language has to say exactly what it means. "Why aren't you proud of being gay?" they wanted to know. "Why are you so dark? Why are you so morbid? Why are you so sad? Don't you realize, we're all okay? Let's celebrate that fact." But that is not what writers do. We don't celebrate being "okay." If you want to be okay, take an aspirin.” IfsKnowsWantMeanFactsWantedLanguageRealizingDarkGroupsProudGayOkayCelebrateLgbtMorbidBeing GaySo SadAspirinBeing Okay Author:Richard Rodriguez
“We do not accept the Western way of thinking that there are two ways of life. At the same time, the police (here) are not chasing gays. In Africa, sexuality is something very private, even for heterosexuals. Heterosexuals are not parading! But gays want to behave like exhibitionists.” ThinkingWayWantTwoAcceptingGayPoliceWesternSexualityBehaveChasingWay Of ThinkingTwo WaysExhibitionist Author:Yoweri Museveni
“I look at American Christianity and I'm almost in despair. I don't want to be identified with it. The Christian vote in America is an anti-abortion, anti-homosexual vote. I consider that to be anti-female and anti-gay, and I don't want to be identified with a God who is anti-anything.” WantLooksChristianAmericaChristianityGayDespairFemaleVoteAbortionHomosexualAnti AbortionAnti Gay Author:John Shelby Spong
“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
“I was a gay kid in high school in the late '90s, and I was in theater club. I was never a thespian. I was much more of a lighting guy or a backstage guy. Because I wanted to do something easy for the rest of my life, I thought, "Maybe I'll go and apply to colleges that specialize in theater set design. I'll do that. That's what I want to do". With theater, really, I'd be around the gays.” WantKidsWantedSchoolGuyEasyDesignCollegeGayLateHigh SchoolTheaterClubsLightingThespians Author:James Pearse Connelly
“I'm very happy with the outcome of the vote ... I totally, totally support equal marriage in law. I don't want anybody in society feeling second best. I don't believe that being gay is a sin.” WantBelieveFeelingsLawSinSupportGayEqualVoteDon't BelieveOutcomesVery HappyIn-lawsBeing GaySecond Best Author:Stephen Crabb
“I would love if gay men responded to me. All I want is for many gay men to dress up as me for Halloween.” IfsMenWantWomenGayDressesHalloweenGay MenHalloween And Friends Author:Mindy Kaling
“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
“I understand why the gay community wants to embrace actors who are out. People want to be represented.” PeopleWantActorsCommunityGayEmbraceGay Community Author:Cheyenne Jackson
“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
“Jewish voters care. They want someone who's good on Israel and who's good on Jewish issues. But they also want somebody who's going to be pro-choice and pro-gun control and pro-gay rights. To the vast majority of the Jewish community, just being good on Israel or on Jewish issues is not enough.” WantEnoughCareChoicesCommunityIssuesRightsGayGunMajorityIsraelBe GoodVotersJust BeingGun ControlGay RightsPro GunJewish CommunityPro Gun ControlPro Gay Author:Charles Schumer
“I want my gay life to not wind up on the streets-on Second Avenue. But at the same time, I don't care if it does.” IfsWantDoeCareStreetsWindGayDon't CareI Don't CareAvenuesGay Life Author:Jack Pierson
“Every gay who is in the closet is ultimately a threat to the freedom of gays. I don't want to seem intolerant to them and I think we have to say that to them with a great deal of affection, but remaining in the closet is the other side of the prejudice against gays. Because until you challenge it, you are not playing an active role in fighting it.” ThinkingWantSeemsFightingSidesChallengesDealsRolesGayPrejudiceThreatAffectionActiveClosets Author:Bayard Rustin
“If we want to do away with the injustice to gays it will not be done because we get rid of the injustice to gays. It will be done because we are forwarding the effort for the elimination of injustice to all. And we will win the rights for gays, or blacks, or Hispanics, or women within the context of whether we are fighting for all.” IfsWantDoneFightingWinningEffortRightsGayInjusticeEliminationWe Will Win Author:Bayard Rustin
“If a bunch of activists want to create the concept of "gay infertility" and then tax all the rest of us to compensate them for the fact that they can't have babies, then that's gonna happen. You haven't missed anything yet. I'm just teasing you as to what's coming. Gays now think it's not fair they can't have babies, so they're calling that "infertility," and it will require mandatory health insurance because of it. Yeah, I know they're not infertile but that doesn't matter; they can't have babies.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantMatterFactsHappensHavensBabyCallingGayTaxesConceptsFairsYeahBunchActivistTeaseNot FairInfertility Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If we [gays] want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government.” IfsWantGovernmentLawTurnsAttentionRightsMovementHeroGayEqualCivil RightsFederal GovernmentCivil Rights MovementGreat Hero 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
“People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, "What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights." No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!” PeopleThinkingWantI CanTodaySpeakWishRightsGayQuietNecksPalestinianCatchingGay RightsPlight Author:Desmond Tutu
“I think people need to live their lives the way they want to, but I'm pretty confident in the fact that I love girls. I've got a long line of girls who could testify that I am not gay.” PeopleThinkingWayWantNeedsLongFactsGirlLinesGayLong Lines Author:Kenny Chesney