Gay Quotes

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

~ James Carville

I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.

~ Joel Osteen

Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a familiar pattern. Like much of Bush's social policy - from faith-based social services to railing against gay marriage - women's issues are one of the bones they've decided they can throw to the Christian right.

~ Molly Ivins

If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.

~ Edmund White

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

~ Lady Gaga

I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.

~ Mark Mckinnon

Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

~ P. J. O'rourke

The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

~ Adam Mckay

Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.

~ Robert Dallek

Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of a controversial social issue. It is difficult not to suspect that Biden's pronouncement aimed to give the president some political cover.

~ Robert Dallek

To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important.

~ Margaret Cho

The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.

~ Edmund White

I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.

~ Edmund White

Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.

~ Edmund White

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.

~ Edmund White

I have never been in favor of gay marriage, and I am not in favor of gay marriage.

~ Pete Gallego

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?

~ Malcolm Turnbull

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.

~ Kristin Chenoweth

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

~ Bernadette Peters

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 don't support gay marriage, but I also don't support a constitutional amendment banning it. However, I do support same sex unions that would give gay couples all the rights, privileges and protections of marriage.

~ Bob Casey

Trust me, if I were gay I'd be getting more action than I'm getting now.

~ Ryan Seacrest

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

~ Andrew Sullivan

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.

~ Dan Savage

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

~ Lance Bass

Lately, I've been a little sad that I'm not a gay man.

~ Gina Gershon

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

~ Barack Obama

I have put gay dating on the map.

~ Patti Stanger

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

~ Andrew Sullivan

There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.

~ Neil Patrick Harris

Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union.

~ Coretta Scott King

I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.

~ Mark Consuelos

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

~ Craig Ferguson

I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.

~ Kathy Najimy