Gay Identity Quotes

#1. I think it's too easy to just say that there is a direct and necessary conflict between black identity and gay identity. I think it's more nuanced than that simply because I think black is a color and then people layer on top of it all kinds of socio-cultural elements.

John Amaechi

#2. He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

William Blake

#3. At precisely the moment when he was looking for God with such intensity, despite everything and everyone, God had no pity on him.

Paulo Coelho

#4. I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I will wave a rainbow flag proudly, but I am not a singular identity. I think a singular identity isn't very interesting, and I'm a little bit more multifaceted as a person than that.

Catherine Opie

#5. If someone called me fat, that affects me way more than someone calling me a f----t. I think just because I've accepted that, if someone calls me a f----t, it's like, I am gay and I'm proud to be gay so there's no issues there. If something calls you fat, that's something I want to change.

Sam Smith

#6. To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who created All

Martin Suarez

#7. My mother once told me my opinion was the only one that mattered. I've lived by tat advice ever since.

A.P. Heath

#8. I was finished with assuming the best intentions of those who abandoned me, done trying to assuage my loneliness in barren places.

Saleem Haddad

#9. The assumption that being gay or black necessarily harms the self-worth of all who fit this category has a patronizing dimension, because it neglects consideration of the agency that persons exercise in respect of imposed identity.

Michael Kenny

#10. Being gay wasn't his complete identity, but it felt like an important part of himself. And he wanted to be the one to control who knew.

Ravon Silvius

#11. Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on yet others, as preparation for things to come, except temptations, which are for the increase of a man's faith and virtue, as it was with Job.

Maximus The Confessor

#12. There are countless reasons for reading, but when you're young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of the most compelling is the quest to discover yourself reflected in the pages of a book.

Michael Cart

#13. Gay male and lesbian culture is obsessed with purity of identity as the only basis for figuring out who you can trust or dance with. -Pat Califia

Carol Queen

#14. I'd love to see a Nirvana biopic. I loved them when I was younger. I really like jazz music, so I'd like to see a Billie Holiday biopic - she was a fascinating woman.

Antonia Thomas

#15. African "homosexualities" can never be comfortably slotted within identity politics carved out of Western "gay" and "lesbian" liberation struggles, and display queer and even post-queer characteristics.

Chantal Zabus

#16. These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldn't be human.

Hanif Kureishi

#17. The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#18. Our children's salvation is not dependent on the strength of our faith or the shrewdness of our answers.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#19. At Chadham High, the safest place to be gay was in the closet.

Huston Piner

#20. Whether straight, gay, bi, trans ... body image and identity can be a struggle for us all.

Ruby Rose

#21. Every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.

Peter Thiel

#22. So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, "I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls.

Michael Thomas Ford

#23. Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that is similar to that of patriarchal straight men.

Bell Hooks

#24. It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.

Garry Shandling

#25. Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.

Christopher Bram

#26. Membership of a larger group is not an identity. Being Asian is not an identity. Being gay is not an identity. Being deaf, blind, or wheelchair-bound is not an identity, nor is being economically deprived.

Lionel Shriver

#27. If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

Jon Meacham

#28. Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

Steve Martin

#29. We begin by loving and accepting ourselves.

Frederick Lenz

#30. My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine.

Tim Federle

#31. All the great unanswered questions of the world will be answered. Who are we? What are we here for? Where will we end up? And most important of all: Can mankind actually get any stupider?

Jasper Fforde

#32. A man whose mother won't let him lift a finger is ruined for a wife." The

Christina Baker Kline

#33. A person's sexuality is so much more than one word "gay." No one refers to anyone as just "hetero" because that doesn't say anything. Sexual identity is broader than a label.

Gus Van Sant

#34. I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.

Nathan Lane

#35. Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose.

Johnny Rich

#36. I don't want to lie about who I am, even if it doesn't matter. It's who I am. It's part of me.

John Corey Whaley