Gay Rights Quotes
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Gay Rights Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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