I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.
I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.
Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome.
You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.
I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
I am an openly proud gay man.
I consider William Gay one of the great writers that no one has ever heard of.
To call me gay is a compliment. Also, if I'd been macho, I'd just have had an audience full of men.
I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills.
In Hollywood it seems that you're considered gay until proven otherwise.
I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
Being a gay American, I know what it means to look at the flag and not have it protect all of your liberties.
I'm terrified to get married. I'm not getting married till my gay friends can.
As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.
If hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it's worth the trade-off with my own privacy.
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends.
To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important.
The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
I couldn't care less if someone is gay or straight.
I have a gay cousin who came out to my parents before he came out to his own. So I benefited from having a very open, supportive family, and I want to pass that on.
When I talk about 'working class,' I don't talk about 'white working class,'. I talk about 'working class,' and a third of working class people are people of color. If you are black, white, brown, gay, straight, you want a good job. There is no more unifying theme than that.
And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.
On YouTube, if anything, coming out as gay or bi or trans explodes someone's popularity.
No, I'm not gay.
The distinction is large in my mind. The gay police captain is eventually going to be wearing hot pants and singing 'YMCA.' The police captain who happens to be gay is going to be a huge collection of personality characteristics and motivations.
If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.
My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.
So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.
There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together.
My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.
I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.
