Cory Booker Quotes

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

I don't need my sexuality celebrated, and I certainly don't need it to be criticized. I didn't necessarily want it to be observed, but here we are.

Gayness is a non-issue.

Just because I'm in favor of gay rights doesn't mean that I'm gay or doesn't mean I'm some kind of 'sissy' or something. That's the language that you hear in locker rooms.

Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation.

I am proud to state that every national Jewish organization we support enforces non-discrimination practices around sexual orientation and that more than 70 percent have written policies in place covering gender identity and expression.

God did not create gays and lesbians so He could have something to hate!

In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

If I was gay, why wouldn't I admit it? It wouldn't harm me.

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

I am a gay American.

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.

You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.

I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

I wouldn’t fire gays. I am not going to discriminate.

I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is.

Sexuality didn't come into it when I was bullied, but for so many years, being LGBTQ was one of the biggest things you would be bullied for at school. Hopefully, as time goes on, it will be a completely accepted thing that people won't have to think about.

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.

Why do people care if I'm gay or not?