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"Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it."
"The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today."
"If I was gay, I would be the best gay of all history."
"The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight."
"You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are."
"The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts: when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free."
"I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues."
"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage."
"With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race."
"Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights."
"The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy."
"I didn't know any gay people in my childhood."
"It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than big, personal or particular rather than socially significant."
"The adage that you are either gay or straight or you are lying. Well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist"
"I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that's fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love"
"Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job."
"By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay."
"Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless."
"A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow."
"We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work with such solidarity."
