Belinda Carlisle Quotes

I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it.

Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.

The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.

I'm always happy to support the gay community.

It's just unbelievable that nearly every gay human being knows who I am now - that's overwhelming.

The most radical thing about our lives is getting to be in a visibly filled-out queer crowd every night.

The most moving responses I got to my coming out in the first place was people, like teenagers, letting me know that it made their lives easier in some way.

Without gay men, I am nothing.

I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.

The whole principle of coming out is that everyone knows someone who's gay. The minute someone comes out, no one can be a bigot, because someone they love is gay.

I've been standing with and united with the gay community. I know so many gay men and women that homophobia is such a baffling thing for me.

Gay men in a very real way created my career.

I don't think we have to make a big thing about being gay, except for when we get together for these gay pride events.

I like Pride festival because we get to show up and show out. Remind people we have resilience and rainbows.

I just live my life - but the support from the gay community is always fantastic. It's really great because they are always the best people to always be around.

I love being around gay people, going to gay clubs.

There is no universal gay experience. All stories are relevant, and all stories are needed.

I'm always performing at Gay Pride events.

In all honesty, when you talk about 'the gay community,' you are talking about my community, haha.

I've always felt very attuned to, and at home in, the gay community.

Once I was embraced by gay culture, I finally started to feel I was fitting in. I was understood by those people in a way I had never predicted or courted.