Lgbtq Issues Quotes

Every player has played with gay guys.

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.

Was it a risky move? Yes, but at that moment, the reason why I came out is I thought it wasn't going to be a big deal. Maybe I was naive. Maybe I thought it was 2014, and people will understand that there's gay NFL players. There's gay athletes everywhere. But I was clearly wrong. It was a huge deal.

Being gay in San Francisco is fun. Being gay in Saudi Arabia - that's a whole other matter.

Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

I believe in gay marriage.

Coming to the Gold Coast and being able to live as an openly gay man is really important.

I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

If you're gay or lesbian, it's a biological error that inhibits you from relating normally to the opposite sex.

The LPGA is basically corporate America's dinner party, and they can invite whomever they want. They're not ready for people getting up and making declarations. The bottom line is corporate America is pretty homophobic.

I am of the school that believes, for the most part, that gays are born and not made. That is, I believe - and there appears to be significant scientific evidence to back me up - that there is a genetic predisposition to be gay.

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

I would ask Donald Trump why every single person in his cabinet has spoken out publicly - and his vice president - against gay rights, and he's never said anything about that.

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

If you are a hermaphrodite, it is physically impossible to be gay.

This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.

There will come a day when Anne Heche will be straight again.

There's a false concept that being gay and out in Hollywood will hurt your career. It's intrinsic homophobia. It's as if being gay is bad.

I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and things like that is that it almost seems like Russian Roulette when you're coming out of the closet to your parents.

The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.

For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.

The men with stars on their shoulders supporting gays serving in the military is going to have a profound impact.

As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical interpretation.

I was a gay man living in the epicenter of 20th-century America's worst health epidemic.

No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay. Those two words rip the picture of a daughter-in-law and grandchildren into pieces. I felt sorry for my mom and wanted her to know everything was going to be all right. But then she said, 'I don't really care, Johnny, as long as I know that you are going to be happy.'