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Related The strongest connection [between the immigration bill and gay rights] is that the immigrant communi... LARRY PELLEGRINI At a time when many people question the responsibility and intellectual interest of younger generati... BRIAN FORS LORETTA LYNCH IDINA MENZEL DAN SAVAGE EDMUND WHITE When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if... ANDREW SULLIVAN RACHEL MADDOW We really have to make profound changes. I'm really looking forward to working hard and diligently .... ELIZABETH WEIR SUNDAY ADELAJA We wanted to make the student community more aware of the issues people face as openly gay or lesbia... ROB ANDERSON What would happen if every community said, ?We can?t reach out to these people because we have our o... DEREK SLAP From New York to Los Angeles, Black gay people have been the backbone of the Black church. Through t... KEITH BOYKIN We feel like Reilly put the entire gay community in front of a bus today. ARLINE ISAACSON Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people ... JEAN O'LEARY K. D. LANG In the gay community, there are a lot of guys similar to Ennis who are afraid to come out. MAX MILLER We also hope to send out a clear message to gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender students that God loves... JACOB REITAN I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own co... LAURA INNES When AIDS hit, lots of people banded together to take care of each other and do what the government ... BRUCE VILANCH HOLLIS STACY I know that a lot of gay people feel like if you're openly gay, by doing so you're sacrificing being... ADAM ALLEN DAVID OYELOWO The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying ... JUDITH LIGHT I'm not gay, a lot of people think I'm gay. I have a girlfriend, she thinks I'm gay. BLINK 182 People are so excited that there is a high-quality gay newscast. Our very existence gives validity t... JASON BELLINI Our audiences want to be entertained. They want us to do all different types of music in all differe... JEFF BUHRMAN When you think of gay people it's funny. They wear leather. They like Judy Garland. ... Gay people, ... JEFF WHITTY RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN MAGIC JOHNSON We wanted to create a place for healing and wellness for the gay and lesbian community. But the mark... KEITH BRADKOWSKI Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to a... CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN DEYTH BANGER She is now more than ever a very important, highly visible, very credible leader in the LGBT communi... ETHAN GETO I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there... IO TILLETT WRIGHT EDMUND WHITE As parents, we have the responsibility and the power to create a foundational love for nutritious fo... LEAH BORSKI NANCY GARDEN The potential consequences of climate change are so sobering that it's difficult to imagine how indi... MEG GARLINGHOUSE I don't have any intention to be anti-gay or to persecute the gay community. ANDER CRENSHAW We market to people that are forward thinking and like the energy of the urban lifestyle. We find in... DAN DANIEL We've heard why people from around the world come to Gay Ski Week, and we are maintaining and enhanc... DEAN NELSON JON HUNTSMAN, JR. LARRY KRAMER CRAIG GROESCHEL JOHNNY WEIR Gay people want the freedom to marry for the same reasons non-gay people do. EVAN WOLFSON DAN SAVAGE HARVEY MILK JOSEPH COOK I think it's great the Army is coming. They're showing that they welcome gay people and the Army is ... CLAIRE TURNER People can't stand up and slam the gay and lesbian community when there's such a wonderful example o... CHUCK WOLFE TED OLSON It's bigoted, wasteful and expensive for us all when the U.S. military continues to violate its own ... WILL DOHERTY Lesbians and gay men are part of Muslim faith and society. We are not going to be silenced or victim... AARON SAEED We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last ele... KATE CLINTON The church hierarchy is attempting to scapegoat gay people for its own failure to address the sexual... MATT FOREMAN Generally speaking, we definitely have more very large gifts coming in, and we have more people givi... FRANK WHITLATCH I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't... CYNTHIA NIXON Our hope is, we can have a productive day of dialogue [at each stop] about gay and lesbian issues. JACOB REITAN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO What's more, the kaleidoscopic blend of gender-variant and gender-typical traits that characterizes ... SIMON LEVAY Your daughter is gay? Where are all these gay people coming from? Gay friends. Gay daughters of frie... DANI ALEXANDER SAM SMITH We will be presenting the truth about homosexuality. Those who struggle with same-sex attraction, or... MIKE HALEY I just don't know when, as a society... it sort of only became OK to represent gay people in the... JORDAN GAVARIS BILL MAHER We're almost conditioned as gay people that the church means the Christian Right and the anti-gay se... JON TEMPLIN DAN SAVAGE We should be part of the curriculum because we are a part of society. There have always been gay peo... JACOB HALL LOIS CAPPS GEORGE TAKEI BAYARD RUSTIN [The business partners who own Cafeteria are all gay and lesbian. In addition a significant percenta... MARK THOMAS Everyday, lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in Wales avoid public spaces and places where they feel ... ALISON PARKEN We need a brand as a party that says we're the party that are going to help working-class people... TIM RYAN MIKE PENCE AISHA TYLER RICKY MARTIN CHRISTINA ENGELA JEFFREY FRY IAN MCKELLEN There are still some people out there who think that the gay community is a magical world, a masculi... JOHN LEWINGTON It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents... JUDY CARTER There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every s... B. D. WONG People reached out and gave millions to a cause. This is in our own backyard. We feel this pain. We ... DEION SANDERS AUDRE LORDE PIERCE BROSNAN BILL MAHER I say, 'I'm bi, my love knows no gender,' and the straight community says, 'Oh right... ANDY DICK
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Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know a... 
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We need to carry the burden of our people and nation and have compassion on the future generations 
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I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean... 
The gay community has taken care of their issues and problems in terms of HIV/AIDS. They have done a... 
What will happen if we go to 0 day?
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about s... 
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We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual ... 
I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use t... 
When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... 
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My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate,... 
If you help elect more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green... 
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The more gays and lesbians come out - the more people realize that they have a friend who's gay,... 
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