Gay Youth Quotes

#1. To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.

Harvey Fierstein

#2. When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.

Gary Allan

#3. There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up.

Poppy Z. Brite

#4. You don't really think that things will ever get better, but they do. People always ask me, "What would you say to gay teen youth that are suicidal, or someone who is addicted right now?," and it's hard to say with words that things will change, but they do.

Patty Schemel

#5. In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class ... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.

Edmund White

#6. SUPPORT SAFE SPACES FOR GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER YOUTH. Reading

Alex Gino

#7. A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

Margot Adler

#8. My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

Armistead Maupin

#9. If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.

Gene Hackman

#10. A man and a giraffe walk into a bar and they proceed to get blitzed. The giraffe drinks so much he passes out on the floor. The man gets up and heads for the door, at which point the bartender yells, "Hey! You can't leave that lyin' there!" "That's not a lion! It's a giraffe.

Barry Dougherty

#11. It is said that the dead are infinitely patient, although it is usually said by the living, and how would they know?

Lee Battersby

#12. Discrimination at any level sends a harmful message to youth, gay or straight alike, and that discrimination has no place in Scouting.

Gwen Ifill

#13. Katenia, are you drunk?"

"No, it's my breasts. I've yet to adjust to my new size.

Eden Ashe

#14. God's principles of national transformation will give the opportunity to make positive changes in the country, overcoming crisis in politics, economy, social services and other spheres.

Sunday Adelaja

#15. I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew.

Jane Hamilton

#16. Lots of teenage girls have taken comfort under the wings of half-closeted gay boys.

Tina Fey

#17. Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger.

John Waters

#18. I feel the denial of gay marriage sends a prejudice message. Our youth deserve a fair and hopeful future with government that values us equally.

Lady Gaga

#19. Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.

John Gay

#20. Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#21. The eye of youth is very observant. Youth has its moments of keen intuition, even normal youth
but the intuition of those who stand mi-way between the sexes is so ruthless, so poignant, so deadly, as to be in the nature of an added scourge ...

Radclyffe Hall

#22. Companies, however
unintentionally, choke the motivation out of their employees.

Dan Ariely

#23. I've had many, you know, happy ending sleepovers'in my early youth - my period of exploration. I think that's essential. Anyone who hasn't had a gay moment is probably trying to avoid some confrontation with a reality in their life.

Ezra Miller

#24. There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need encouragement.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#25. The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.

Toni Morrison