Dont come for me!…. I didn’t send for you!

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.”Goethe

He turned around, suddenly concerned. “Are you pregnant? Are you gay? I’d rather you were gay than pregnant. Unless you’re pregnant. Then we’ll deal. Whatever it is, we’ll deal. Are you pregnant?

It’s not called being gay, it’s called being fabulous!

Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits – we’re all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn’t matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.

…There are no ‘what ifs.’ You have to jump in. You go in all the way or back off completely. Take her in with all that you’ve got or cut her loose.

It’s hard being gay in Edwardian times.

I am not here to entertain straight people.

Do you even know what gay stands for? Well, let me tell you. G-A-Y. Got Aids yet?

One family, two impressively gay brothers.

You don’t have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.

I won’t be in gay parades – I don’t think they need them. I believe in class – I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.

There is a large group that’s not represented on television – the group that falls somewhere in the middle of straight and gay. That group is looked down on, because people say, ‘You can’t be in-between. You have to pick one or the other.’

It’s not easy for a young gay fabulous boy in Japan, I should know, that’s why I became a woman.” Momma Nakama

Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson’s legislative success on civil rights.

I took my clothes out of the cupboard and looked at myself in the mirror. I dropped the wet towel. i took a long, clear-eyed look at myself. that i was different was nowhere apparent.

I’d be staring at you and thinking, I should ask, I should ask, I should ask; do you want to be in a stable monogamous relationship for the rest of your life?

Are you really a Texan? I mean, really? Riley, if I have a headache,I’d put bacon around an aspirin before I take it.

A defeat for humanity would be the failure to recognise the rights of two people who love each other.A defeat for humanity is that people accept such hatred and discrimination into their hearts.A defeat for humanity would be the failure of the church to recognise that nobody can control who a person loves.A victory for...

No matter whether you’re a gay or a mixed race couple; when you’re drawn together, ultimately it doesn’t matter what everybody thinks because it’s so honest, true, and sincere. How can that be wrong?

Promise not to talk too much.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

A lot of what used to be known as gay culture – broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp – has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it’s just sex.

When I was I younger I didn’t want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn’t want to be a clone. Now this was in the late ’70s.

He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he’s known as Straight Dave by the bar staff – and no one believes he’s as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.

I’ve just fallen in love with you. What is your name, and please tell me you’re gay?

I would love to be on ‘Glee,’ thus furthering the myth that I’m a gay man.

‘How old were you when you realized you were… different?’ Logan opened his mouth, then smiled slyly, ‘What sort of different? Gay different, magic different, or just plain fucked-in-the-head-crazy different?’ Collin bit back a smile at Logan’s delivery, ‘Magic different.’ ‘Ah,’ Logan said, ‘Pity, the other stories are a lot more fun.’

There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn’t care about at all.

I understand addiction now. I never did before, you know. How could a man (or a woman) do something so self-destructive, knowing that they’re hurting not only themselves, but the people they love? It seemed that it would be so incredibly easy for them to just not take that next drink. Just stop. It’s so...

Yes, it’s worth it. The pain of sorrow is terrible and hard to bear, but the joy of love makes it worthwhile. p123

So he slips his head off of Jeff’s shoulder and slides out from under Evan’s Armand shuffles down to the bottom of the bed. It doesn’t have a lot of dignity this part of their sleeping arrangement. He’s complained about this before but Jeff just nodded, and Evan had kissed the back of his neck,...

The three of you were pretty cute last night, with all that touchy-feely crap.””Yeah, that lasted for about two minutes before you dragged Evan back over to the bar.””Dude, we were hunting Turkey. [drinking bourbon] it was important.” Chris grins. “That boy can drink, I’ll give him that.” “That’s big of you. From the way...

…, and sometimes there’s just no point in arguing with him. “Yeah, okay ‘me, Jeff, and Evan, sitting in a tree…'”Chris claps his hands triumphantly. “That’s right, baby!” Than a more serious expression comes across his face. “But, in a tree? Really? I mean, im a not an expert on the gay sex thing, but...

Lies Have expiry dates but the truth never expires

If you’re black, if you’re gay, if you’re Latin – we’re all the same. We’re all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.

I’m not against gay people.

All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let’s just leave them be. Don’t judge them. You are not superior to them – don’t put them down.

There’s a strange lack of knowledge about the role of drag queens in our culture. I attribute this to the appalling state of our country’s educational system. Others might blame an utter lack of interest. Who am I to judge?

You ain’t never going to get rich that way, Johnson. And there’s money in that dick. Lots of money.

[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

Father Brendan Flynn: “A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew – I know none of you have ever done this. That night, she had a dream: a great hand appeared over her and pointed down on her. She was immediately seized with an overwhelming sense of guilt. The...

It was so screwed up, because the thing that made us the most powerless also gave us such power. We could make them turn away. We could bother them and challenge them and mess them up. You think people are afraid of two boys in love? To hell with that. What people are really afraid...

I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn’t

When you’re 17 in the suburbs and know only three gay people, holding hands with your girlfriend is a proclamation.

Gay rights and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about.

I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child’s conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.

But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.

There comes a point where you become tired of the loneliness and need a human touch, a caress to make you realize you still exist as a person.

The structure of straight coupledom still represents an appropriation of the physical and psychic energy of women to benefit men. And insofar as gay people re-create the straight couple, this structure of violence, domination, and emotional paucity is what they are re-creating. Whatever Beyoncé says about not making a big deal out of the little...