People don't become gay, bisexual, pansexual, transexual. People just fall in love with another person.
Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine.
I have the liberal dictionary right here. . . let's see how they define water-boarding: 'Something done by the evil troops, who we don't support, to innocent terrorists violating their rights to bomb our cities and make us get gay marriage. '
I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
We need marriage equality in every state in this nation. Otherwise, no state really has marriage equality, and we will not rest until it is a reality.
Choosing to leave the lesbian life brings us into direct conflict with the satanic realm.
When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of that sort, that a gene for anything may not have been a gene for that thing under different environmental conditions.
Just as I love women, I love gay men. I always say it: inside me there is a gay man who wants to come out.
I don't really like saying "the gays". . . I'm not sure why. I suppose I say "the Jews. " but I don't say "the blacks. " I guess because I'm a Jew for all intents and purposes and to group people together of which I am not one in such a casual way feels disrespectful.
Out of the mists of our long oppression, We bring love for ourselves and each other, And love for the gifts we bear, So heavy and so painful the fashioning of them, So long the road given us to travel them. A separate people, We bring a gift to celebrate each other, ’Tis a gift to be gay! Feel the pride of it!
Reading about feminism when I was a teenager and seeing it as a young woman, I realized that feminism really hadn't dealt with sexuality; it really hadn't dealt with transgender or gay women.
If you're a teacher, for instance, there are ways to have positive representation of gay people in the classroom. Making sure that, historically, people are noted and archived, and that kids are getting just positive images of people who are gay.
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps. . . perhaps. . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims there are no homosexuals in Iran, just like there are no gay conservatives in the US.
I'm a veteran, and I've earned the right to be heard. I'll lead by example and show that gay players are no different from straight ones. I'm not the loudest person in the room, but I'll speak up when something isn't right. And try to make everyone laugh.
I have a lot of friends and family that have suffered because of the church's judgment; my best friend in the world is gay. I felt a lot of people around me drawing lines in the sand, and that year I decided: I don't want to draw lines and have to be on one side or the other, but if someone's going to push me to one or the other side of the line, I'm going to stand on the side of those being judged because that's where I feel Jesus meets people.
I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time.
Homosexuality is not 'normal' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm. . . Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation is the single relentless rule. That is the norm. Our sexual bodies were designed for reproduction. . . No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous. . . homosexuality is an adaptation, not an inborn trait.
I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.