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“ Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. ”

—Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899)

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“ It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. ”

—Francis Maude

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“ Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed. ”

—Plato

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“ Our Demand for justice is stronger than their laws, our passion for freedom is stronger than their prisons. ”

—Kellen Farshea

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“ You could move. ”

—"Dear Abby" (Abigail Van Buren) responding to a reader's letter about a gay couple moving across the street; asking how he could improve his neighborhood

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“ Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. ”

—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)

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“ It is better to be hated for what one is than to be loved for what one isn’t. ”

—André Gide (1869–1951)

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“ My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share. ”

—Rita Mae Brown

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“ The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. ”

—Lynn Lavner

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“ War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the Southern Baptist Convention is protesting? ”

—The Value of Families

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“ When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. ”

—Tombstone of Leonard Matlovich (1943–1988)

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“ Being gay is a natural normal beautiful variation on being human. Period. End of subject. Therefore, any argument which says differently is an immoral supremacist one. Call it out as such. ... Be outraged, offended, angry and intolerant of any discussion or any one who describes you as unequal, undeserving or unnatural for being just as you are. ”

—Larry Kramer

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“ You are born naked, the rest is drag. ”

—RuPaul

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“ You know me Marge, I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals fa-laming. ”

—Homer Simpson of The Simpsons

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“ I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell. ”

—Audre Lorde (1934–1992)

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“ No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. ”

—Rita Mae Brown

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“ If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door. ”

—Harvey Milk (1930–1978)

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“ If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you. ”

—Troy Perry, Metropolitan Community Church founder

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“ Love has no limits, only people do. ”

—Unknown

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“ The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay. ”

—Troy Perry, Metropolitan Community Church founder

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“ Before you criticize queens, fairies or someone who acts "too queer", consider where we'd be without them. ”

—Kenneth Hanes, Gay Guy's Guide to Life

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“ I just go crazy when I hear these people on the stages on gay pride rallies going on and on how 'We're just like everyone else.' Then a seven-and-a-half-foot drag queen comes walking by and opens his butterfly wings and I just think, 'Yeah, we're just like everyone else.' I think we should celebrate who we are. I don't need anyone's approval. ”

—Lea DeLaria

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“ Fuck off, I'm gay. ”

—Actor Sir Ian McKellen, written response to UK Home Secretary Michael Howard's autograph request, at the end of an unsuccessful 1988 visit to persuade the politician to change his stance on Section 28.

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“ Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. ”

—James Baldwin (1924–1987)

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“ My sexuality is my own sexuality. It doesn't belong to anybody. Not to my government, not to my brother, my sister, my family. No. ”

—Ashraf Zanati, arrested in Egypt after attending a same-sex wedding

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“ Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?" ”

—Jon Stewart

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“ I've had ashes in my mouth for eight years at every kind of spin on homophobia presented about why this school shouldn't be named after Harvey Milk, so this is just so wonderful today. I'm having a vision: I see Harvey across the street, sitting on top of the school's roof being so elated, because he really believed in kids and the rainbow of diversity. ”

—Tom Ammiano

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“ In truth, the term "gay community" is just a figure of speech, meaning not much more than "all the gay people in this area." There is no "gay community" per se. What there is is a large number of different and overlapping smaller gay communities each centered on a specific interest or activity, from square-dancing to playing bridge, from choral singing to political activity, from S/M to theater. ”

—Paul Varnell

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“ What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. ”

—Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), in A Streetcar Named Desire

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“ You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight. ”

—Barry Goldwater (1909–1998)

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“ But I always have and still do consider myself queer. To me, being queer isn't who you're sleeping with; it's just an idea that sexuality isn't gender-based, that it's love-based. ”

—Ani DiFranco

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“ Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ”

—Ernest Gaines

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“ I still find it personally disappointing that people kind of go out of their way to voice their disgust or their opinions against the ways in which two people choose to love one another. I think that's really unfortunate. ”

—Heath Ledger (1979–2008)

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“ Homosexuality is God’s way of insuring that the truly gifted aren’t burdened with children. ”

—Sam Austin, Composer/Lyricist

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“ It wasn’t easy telling my parents that I’m gay. I told them at Thanksgiving. I said “Mom would you please pass the gravy to a homosexual?” She passed it to my father. A terrible scene followed. ”

—Bob Smith (comedian)

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“ The only gay pride parade where I live is in my bedroom. ”

—Cara Cunningham

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“ Sure, there are plenty of hateful people who will always hold on to their bigotry like a child to a blanket. But there are also good people out there, Christian and otherwise that are beginning to listen. ”

—Melissa Etheridge

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“ I don't understand why it is considered by some people to be a threat to heterosexual marriage to allow it by gays and lesbians. Shouldn't we be promoting that kind of faithfulness and loyalty to one's partner regardless of sexual orientation? ”

—Al Gore

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“ For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian. ”

—Mabel Maney

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“ I was raised around heterosexuals, and they didn't influence me! ”

—Ellen DeGeneres

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“ I suppose it all began when I came out of the womb. I looked back up at my mother and thought to myself, 'That's the last time I'm going up one of those.' ”

—Stephen Fry

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“ Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ”

—Boethius

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“ If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: "Hello. Can't work today, still queer". ”

—Robin Tyler

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“ Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. ”

—James Baldwin

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“ There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved. ”

—Boy George

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“ What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't. ”

—Ed Fallon, on same-sex marriage

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“ Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ”

—Harvey Fierstein

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“ There is no fucking spirit in the world like in the gay community. ”

—Lady Gaga

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“ It is quite simply one of the touchstones of what a liberal society should be: open, tolerant and free of prejudice. ”

—Nick Clegg, speaking out against homophobia

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“ Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once. ”

—Madonna

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“ Because no one has the right to deny another their life even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn’t harm another and because discrimination has no place in America. ”

—Brad Pitt on Proposition 8 after donating $100,000 to fight the ballot

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“ I am the most well-known homosexual in the world. ”

—Elton John

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“ I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. ”

—Jean Genet

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“ These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer. ”

—Derek Jarman

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“ I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman — I'll kiss a frog if you like. ”

—Stephen Fry

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“ Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase. ”

—Scott Thompson

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“ As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are. ”

—Lance Loud

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“ AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS being some kind of divine retribution is crap. ”

—Calvin Klein

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“ I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. ”

—Alan Bennett

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“ It's a non-issue. You can be a very good officer, a creative one, a brave one, and be gay at the same time. ”

—David Saranga, Consul, Israeli Consulate, New York City

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“ It is, I have to say, quite disgusting that in America and in other countries you cannot have a civil union or something equivalent to marriage. ”

—Tom Ford

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“ They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved! ”

—Lea DeLaria

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“ I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. ”

—Coretta Scott King

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“ I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It’s not an underground tool for me. It’s my whole life. ”

—Lady Gaga

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“ Bless God and bless the gays! ”

—Lady Gaga, speaking at a gay rights rally in Washington, D.C.

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“ When it comes to marriage, you know, I think that civil rights need to be for all. ”

—Marie Osmond

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“ The feeling of revulsion is mutual. ”

—Beth Mellington-Pritchard, a lesbian audience member of Question Time in response to the far-right BNP leader Nick Griffin speaking out against homosexuality

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“ I believe that gender is something between your ears, not between your legs. ”

—Chaz Bono

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“ Don't worry my dear, there's nothing for me down there. ”

—Derren Brown, talking to a female audience member of one of his shows, when he announced that he would have to look down her top in order for him not be able to cheat at a trick

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“ Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. ”

—Woody Allen

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“ A fag is a homosexual gentleman who has just left the room. ”

—Truman Capote

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“ There's daggers in men's smiles. ”

—William Shakespeare

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“ There is enormous, heartbreaking evidence that civil unions are not equal to marriage. ”

—Kevin Cathcart

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“ You don't have to be straight to shoot straight. ”

—Barry Goldwater, on the U.S. military "Don't ask, don't tell" policy

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“ I am as gay as a daffodil, my dear! ”

—Freddie Mercury

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“ Why is it that Johnny Spaghetti Stain in fucking Georgia can knock a woman up, legally be married to her, and then beat the shit out of her, but these two intelligent, sophisticated writers who have been together for 20 years can't get married? ”

—Seth MacFarlane

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“ I promise you that no one need walk the road to equality alone again. ”

—Gordon Brown, UK Prime Minister.

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“ There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way. ”

—Lady Gaga

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“ You have the audacity to talk about protecting families and children from the homosexual menace, while you yourselves tear apart families and drive children to despair. I don't know why my son is gay, but I do know that God didn't put him, and millions like him, on this Earth to give you someone to abuse. ”

—Sharon Underwood

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“ Understand one thing. Heterosexual and Homosexual have one thing in common. It is the bond between two people that is important. ”

—Unknown

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“ It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life. ”

—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

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“ To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ”

—E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)

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“ Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives. ”

—Jeffrey Montgomery (1953–) LGBT activist

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“ There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny. ”

—Eric Allman (1955–), on Sendmail, his widely used email routing software

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“ I hear the word 'tolerance'—that some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with that word. I am gay, and I am not seeking to be 'tolerated'. One tolerates a toothache, rush-hour traffic, an annoying neighbor with a cluttered yard. I am not a negative to be tolerated. ”

—Chely Wright

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