Once you’re sort of pigeonholed into something, it’s quite difficult to get out of it. I have no aversion to playing a gay character again, but it would definitely have to be the right role. – Sarah Shahi
The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I’m sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again. – Tony Campolo
I’m not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies. – Tommy Kirk
Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase. – Scott Thompson
I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it’s too easy to write about my last trick or something. It’s not very interesting to the reader. – Thom Gunn
There’s nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell. – Stephen Colbert
I myself know some people who are gay. We’re on friendly terms. I’m not prejudiced in any way. – Vladimir Putin
If ‘gay’ is not in your vocabulary, if being gay is not an option in your world, then you’re far more likely to see your kid as anything but gay. – Suzanne Brockmann
I don’t like gay people and I don’t like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don’t like it. It shouldn’t be in the world or in the United States. – Tim Hardaway
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in Russia, unlike in one third of the world’s countries, being gay is not a crime. – Vladimir Putin
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
It’s not the ’90s anymore. I think the gay community is a lot more accepted these days. – Tila Tequila
They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week. – Sean Hayes
Growing up in the Bible Belt of Texas, I thought for sure there was no way – if I’m 100 percent true to myself and come out as a gay, African-American person in 2015 – that people are going to be able to accept that and understand it. – Todrick Hall
So the first job that I got – my father got it for me – he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry’s of Georgetown. – Tori Amos
Just because I’m in favor of gay rights doesn’t mean that I’m gay or doesn’t mean I’m some kind of ‘sissy’ or something. That’s the language that you hear in locker rooms. – Scott Fujita
I don’t know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don’t want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we’re not ready to see it used in ways that offend us. – Tony Campolo
When I see gay people holding hands or kissing in the streets, I just don’t think that’s right. – Tim Hardaway
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples? – Ted Olson
I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like. – Stephen Fry
I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It’s a little bit of everybody. – Wanda Sykes
Nashville is a boys’ club of redneck conservative ideas. But they’re ready to embrace gay people. I never felt for one second that someone was judging me. Some people are like, ‘Oh, I love gay people’ in that ‘I have lots of black friends’ kind of way. It’s awkward, but you have to appreciate that they’re trying. – Shane McAnally
The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it’s called the Tea Party. – Tammy Bruce
Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I’m gay, then I think I’ll be fine. I can handle it. – Zac Efron
With ‘Fellow Travelers,’ I think I was consciously trying to imagine what my own life as a gay man might have been like if I’d been born exactly 20 years earlier. – Thomas Mallon