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Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay. — Nicholas Kristof

Gay rights are human rights. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are. — Merle Miller

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians. — Gore Vidal

When the battle is long and hard the victory is even sweeter — Anthony Venn-Brown

Bisexual people are the primary conduits for the cultural conversation that America is having about gay rights. — Jennifer Baumgardner

Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't. — Ricky Gervais

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength. — Sandra Lee

I am a fierce supporter of Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and gay rights in this country. — Bernie Sanders

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations. — Jasmine Guy

The heavy warlike losses of the AIDS years were relegated to queer studies classrooms, taught as gay history and not American history. — Alysia Abbott

... gay marriage rights coming and going, always being an issue for the voting public when it should be an individual's private choice. — G.A. Hauser

What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege? — DaShanne Stokes

One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible. — Charles M. Blow

Love should never mean having to live in fear. — DaShanne Stokes

I'm saying it loud: I'm a Republican who supports gay rights. — Mark McKinnon

Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin. — Michael Bloomberg

The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto. — Erick Erickson

Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember ... a child is listening. — Mary Griffith

It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in. — Annie Laurie Gaylor

You can't claim to support equality and not support equal rights." - on Supreme Court's consideration of gay marriage, April 27, 2015 — Chamois Holschuh

I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it. — DaShanne Stokes

I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial. — Jean O'Leary

It's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights as someone else. — Jon Stewart

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over. — Dan Savage

Jesus didn't fight against what was wrong. But he fought for what was right. — Ricky Maye

Gay rights are human rights, there is no separation. — Macklemore

Gay People can't do this. Women shouldn't be able to that. But touch my semiautomatic rifle and you're attacking my rights. — Remi Kanazi

In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context. — Trevor Noah

A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important. — Robert Reich

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight. — Jodi Picoult

When a man's running, he seldom looks back. — Brenda Sutton Rose

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen. — Herb Ritts

Gay rights to me that is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment. — Jodi Picoult

(well, LOVE and gay rights - three cheers for straight girls who max out on helping gay guys) — David Levithan

Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South. — Janisse Ray

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. — Daphne Fielding

Relationships are valuable no matter who they are between. — Donna Goddard

By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore. — Scott Fujita

This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers]. — LZ Granderson

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. — Peter Tatchell

No country should deny people their rights because of who they love, which is why we must stand up for the rights of gays and lesbians everywhere. — Barack Obama

I said those things about gay rights and abortion on opposite day. I cannot BELIEVE you don't have opposite day in North Carolina! — Mitt Romney

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight. — Harvey Milk

We see ... a future where no one-no one-is forced to live in the shadows of intolerance. — Joe Biden

You know, the guys there were so beautiful - they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago. — Allen Ginsberg

I'm coming for you, Skye! Ain't nobody gonna violate your rights as a Gay Homosexual American on my watch! — Alexa Land

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake
you know, to send the right message to kids. — Bill Maher

Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong ... — Melissa Etheridge

Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms. — Allen Ginsberg

The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history. — Tom Cardamone

If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters. — Anita Bryant

Gay rights and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about. — Mary Lambert

I'm not a gay rights activist. — ASAP Rocky

The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world. — Alvin Toffler

The Great Spirit finds all life, even that of an abomination, is sacred. — Craig R. Key

I'm passionate about gay rights, but I think we need admit that there are some gay wrongs as well. — Dov Davidoff

I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior. — Rand Paul

Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights. — Robert Dallek

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough. — Tammy Bruce

I believe everyone on this planet deserves equal rights to their own pursuit of happiness. — Joel Madden

Not all gays respond to the same stuff. Would Alexander the Great have loved Auntie Mame? — Bruce Bawer

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country. — Barney Frank

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. — W. Somerset Maugham

Yeah, I know I should be fighting for gay rights, but who wants to join the army or get married anyway? — John Waters

America- often called the land of milk and honey- tends to be sweeter, more generous to those who don't rock the boat.

Sarah Mullen — Erin Passons

Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans. — Ken Mehlman

We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo and not talked about and dealt with. — Madonna Ciccone

I'm pro-choice. I'm pro-gay rights. — Rudy Giuliani

Same-sex marriage is not a gay privilege, it's equal rights ... — Ricky Gervais

On a serious note, I stand by Obama on marriage equality! I believe ALL families deserve the same rights — Connor Barwin

[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them — James Howe

Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot. — P. J. O'Rourke

If a couple of gay guys want to throw the gayest, most fabulous wedding of all time, the only way it should offend you is if you weren't invited. — Orlando Winters

My own country's record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect. — Hillary Clinton

Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great. — George Weinberg

Putting measures like gay marriage on ballots for elections only hurts the gay rights cause and elects more conservative politicians. — Roseanne Barr

When you start talking about abortion and gay rights, people take that seriously and they're passionate about it - on both sides. — Bob Buckhorn

She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol? — Patricia Highsmith

Equality is truly sweet. — Kristin Chenoweth

Gay Marriage isn't Special Rights, it's Equal Rights. 'Special Rights' are for political churches that don't pay taxes. — John Fugelsang

I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights ... It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday. — Regina Spektor

Gay rights and human rights are ... one and the same. — Hillary Clinton

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door. — Harvey Milk

I'm for all kinds of gay rights. I'm almost like a gay man myself. — NeNe Leakes

You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to be you so be you proudly. — Tegan Quin