It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me.
Lea DeLaria

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
Adrienne Rich

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.
Kate Clinton

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
Bruce Springsteen
On writing song, Streets of Philadelphia, which details feelings of a gay man facing final turmoil of his struggle with AIDS.

My mission, I guess, has always been the kind of world where lesbian and gay people can celebrate who we are with equal freedom, dignity, and respect.
John Fisher

There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.
Gene Robinson

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.
John Edwards

To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.
Judith Light

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives.
Jeffrey Montgomery

I`m a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian.
Ellen DeGeneres

We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.
Jill Bennett

Well, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body... but it's more complicated than that.
Tony Parker

I got letters from girls saying that I changed their lives and I met people who would cry about it, and that had such an impact on me. You don't realise what an impact television has on people. But when you get letters from young girls saying, "I came out and I have a girlfriend now because of you", it's great.
Amber Benson
On her role as lesbian "Tara" on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" TV show (1997).

My sexuality is straight transvestite or male lesbian. It seems we are beyond the idea that I am gay and hiding it. If I had to describe how I feel in my head, I`d say I`m a complete boy plus half a girl. I don`t seem to have the sixth sense that women have or their stronger senses of taste and smell. Gay men can also have it but straight men don`t.
Eddie Izzard

I`d get married again. But only to a lesbian.
Andy Puckett

Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.
Alba Quinones

We wanted to make the student community more aware of the issues people face as openly gay or lesbian.
Rob Anderson

She's a (lesbian), but with a body like that she could get any man she wants.
Carla Gugino

There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.
Michael Stipe

They're pushing me to do Howard. Howard's a trip. My friend made me watch the "Lesbian Love Connection" and I was like, "Oh God, get me out of here!"
Sherilyn Fenn
Asked if she would ever do the Howard Stern Show.

Drag is when a man wears everything a lesbian won't.
Author Unknown

Gay and lesbian people fall in love. We settle down. We commit our lives to one another. We raise our children. We protect them. We try to be good citizens.
California Sen. Sheila Kuehl
After California Senate approved gay marriage bill AB849.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
Barack Obama

I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?
Elton John
Accepting Distinguished Achievement Award from Elizabeth Taylor at Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center's 25th anniversary blowout.

I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men.
Diamanda Galas

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
Rita Mae Brown

That word "lesbian" sounds like a disease. And straight men know because they're sure that they're the cure.
Denise McCanles

Samantha: What am I supposed to say? "Hi, this is my lesbian lover. And p.s.: I'm done with dick"?
Sex and the City
TV Show.

My mom blames California for me being a lesbian. "Everything was fine until you moved out there." "That's right, Mom, we have mandatory lesbianism in West Hollywood. The Gay Patrol busted me, and I was given seven business days to add a significant amount of flannel to my wardrobe."
Coley Sohn

Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.
Nora Ephron
Heartburn, 1983.

While many minority groups are the target for prejudice... and discrimination... in our society, few persons face this hostility without the support and acceptance of their family as do many gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth.
Virginia Uribe and Karen Harbeck

Along with the revelations of drug taking, which are supposedly negative, come headlines about her lesbianism, as if that is negative, too. It's shocking the way it is reported. What's wrong with her having had sex with another woman?
Rupert Everett
Defending supermodel Kate Moss after newspaper reports claiming she romped with other women, September 2005.

Carrie: How does that work? You go to bed one night, wake up the next morning, and poof - you're a lesbian?
Sex and the City
TV Show.