Gay Bars Quotes

#1. True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

James C. Collins

#2. Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world. As a straight man I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance.

Steve Kazee

#3. I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.

Nicolas Cage

#4. I've never dated anyone because they were vegetarian, just like I'm gay but don't only go to gay bars. I hang out with people because they are fun, smart, and kind, and if they happen to be veg I'm thrilled.

Dan Mathews

#5. I'm going to marry you someday," he whispered.

Katy Regnery

#6. Well, from 1969 to 1984, until he died of AIDS, a teacher and I were very good friends. He even attended celebrations at my home, and I have to admit I even went with him to gay bars once in a while. So I know a homophobe when I see one. Pat Buchanan ain't no homophobe, believe me.

Ezola B. Foster

#7. Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.

Larry Kramer

#8. Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

C.S. Lewis

#9. I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.

Dorothy Allison

#10. And sometimes I just hug him because I know it pisses him off, and he can't say shite about it.

Rhys Ford

#11. Death is a great transformation. But it is not an end.

Ambelin Kwaymullina

#12. My experience of coming out was very much centered around the bar scene. And what happened for me is that when I turned 18 and was old enough to get into certain gay bars in the French Quarter, I became a regular customer.

Christopher Rice

#13. All roads lead past shooting ranges, liquor stores, and gay bars. Wanderlust is part of the American Spirit.

Andrew Smith

#14. Love needs no protection; it is its own protection. So long as love begets life no child is deserted, or hungry, or famished for the want of affection. I know this to be true.

Emma Goldman

#15. Few bars in New York, even gay bars, permitted same-sex dancing.

Ann Bausum

#16. In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making 'Star Trek.' But most of the time, I don't think about it.

William Shatner

#17. mitochondria and the ribosomes and the chloroplasts and the endoplasmic reticulum.

Belle Payton

#18. Only gay bars were full; the heterosexual joints were empty - the heteros massively committed to watching television with their falsely monogamous spouses.

Aleksandar Hemon