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. – Val McDermid
If you’re gay and you can’t hold hands, or you’re black and you can’t catch a taxi, or you’re a woman and you can’t go into the park, you are aware there’s a menace. That’s costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure. – Tony Kushner
When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: ‘What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?’ – Stephen Daldry
I don’t feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I’m a gay man. – Tony Kushner
One of the greatest tools you have as a songwriter is anonymity. If someone knows too much about the songwriter, they don’t get to insert their own characters. I don’t want the audience thinking about the gay guy who wrote the song. – Shane McAnally
I care a great deal about LGBT U.S. servicemen and women being able to serve openly and honestly. Since early in my career, I’ve included realistic LGBT characters in my books. The idea that a gay Navy SEAL had to hide who he was in order to serve was a terrible one – and I made sure my readers knew that! – Suzanne Brockmann
The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date. – Sean Hayes
When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew. – Thom Gunn
My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the ’70s, in the ’80s, and especially in the ’90s. – Tom Brokaw
But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package – the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with – I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role. – Sean Hayes
The truth is, I probably would be dead if I had become a star, because at that point I was so closeted and so afraid of people of finding out I was gay. There was no telling what would have happened. – Shane McAnally
Now I’ve devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African American kids or any other gay kids or any other kids that just feel weird or uncomfortable and have their own issues and don’t know how to express themselves. I want to be like a beacon for those kids now. – Todrick Hall
Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying. – Zachary Quinto
Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have. – Sean O’Casey
Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction. – Tony Kushner
I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country. – Vanessa Kerry
Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness. – Salvatore J. Cordileone
Being from New York, if you’re gay, you’re gay. I think it’s important that if you are gay, you not be afraid to say who you are. – Sue Wicks
I was told that if I wanted to be a leading man in Hollywood, I couldn’t possibly be thought of as gay. – Sean Maher
Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits – we’re all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn’t matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless. – Willie Nelson
Adoption is a global issue these days – it’s certainly current – and it’s encouraging for a lot of couples whether they’re straight or gay. – Sara Ramirez
If what I read doesn’t reflect my life – whether I’m gay or Latino or on welfare – doesn’t that really mean that my life is not valuable? – Walter Dean Myers
I was influenced by big, strong voices – writers like Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles; gay writers like Ed White, Michael Cunningham, Allen Hollinghurst; and contemporary lesbian writers, like Dorothy Allison. – Stacey D’Erasmo
For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity. – Ted Deutch
I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well. – William Weld
I am a huge fan of gays. They love me, and I love them. They think of me as sort of a gay icon. – Tori Spelling