Proud Gay Quotes

#1. When I came out, I said, 'I'm going to be a proud gay artist.' I'm not going to be Melissa Etheridge. But she's a goddess!

Mary Lambert

#2. Am I proud of being straight? No. You know why? Because if I start acting proud, that's going to make me seem kind of gay.

Stephen Colbert

#3. I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

Kurt Cobain

#4. This is a proud day and an important step forward in the fight for equality in Britain. The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs supported this change to make sure marriage reflects the value we place on long-term, loving relationships whoever you love.

Ed Miliband

#5. It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

Thom Gunn

#6. To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay.

Dan Savage

#7. [...]he's a man you'd be proud to bring home to mom.
Gay or straight.
Unfortunately, if your mother is anything like mine, you'd probably never get him back out of her house.

Adrienne Wilder

#8. Gay people can't be proud of the country and want to defend it too. What's the army afraid is going to happen if gay people are in it. Private, shoot that man! I can't, he's adorable.

Jon Stewart

#9. I am gay. I am proud. And God loves me without reservation.

Mel White

#10. 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

#11. It's great to be out and proud.

Greg Louganis

#12. If you're reading this and you think that maybe you could love someone of the same gender (or nongender), all I have to say to you is this: Congratulations! You're perfect and wonderful and more alive than you ever knew. Be proud of who you are because you're already more than enough.

Hannah Hart

#13. On The New Normal the thing I was probably more proud of than anything else is that we were just trying to put positive energy out there in the world, and we got to do it for one season and that's more than most.

Justin Bartha

#14. Over the past ten years, I've processed a lot. I'm still processing. And there is more to be done. But I'm very proud of the person I am today. I'm proud to be gay. I'm proud to be a reckless optimist. I'm proud to keep learning and sharing what I've learned. I'm proud to be a work in progress.

Hannah Hart

#15. Then rise my soul! and soar away, Above the thoughtless crowd; Above the pleasures of the gay, And splendours of the proud; Up where eternal beauties bloom, And pleasures all divine; Where wealth, that never can consume, And endless glories shine.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#16. How happy they are, in all seeming, How gay, or how smilingly proud, How brightly their faces are beaming, These people who make up the crowd!

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#17. There's nothing you could do to make me any more or less gay, Dad. It's who I am."
"It's not who you are. It's part of who you are, but it's not who you are. You're so much more than just that, and I'm proud of you. All of you." ~ Lucas' Father

Madison Parker

#18. I'm very proud of my team, and the way they stood behind me - and I'm very happy to show my female fans in that audience, and even my gay fans in that audience.

Nicki Minaj

#19. Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins.

Joel Osteen

#20. If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.

Max Von Essen

#21. I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.

Christine Quinn

#22. I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

Barney Frank

#23. So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.

Tim Cook

#24. 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

#25. I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.

Antony Sher

#26. I am not proud to be gay any more than I am proud to be right handed or to breathe oxygen.

Cleve Jones

#27. I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't

Kurt Cobain

#28. When I see young men and old women come out of the closet and face being called faggots and dykes and pariahs and betrayers of the family dream, then I am honored to be gay because I belong to a people who are proud.

Arnie Kantrowitz

#29. I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.'

Carson Kressley

#30. I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

Quentin Crisp

#31. The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.

Anderson Cooper

#32. I don't keep it secret that I live with my partner Gio. I'm very proud of my gayness. But there is lots I wouldn't want the press to write about me ... it is a matter of regret that being gay is the most interesting thing about me.

Evan Davis

#33. When I meet gay fans out and about, they're so great to talk to - and I'm big on hugging, because I'm from the Midwest. They're just so energetic and loving. I'm proud to have those fans, and their support means a lot to me. I don't want just girls coming to my movies; I want guys to come, too!

Kellan Lutz

#34. I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman. And I'm proud to be gay.

Wanda Sykes

#35. I'm an openly gay man playing an omnisexual hero, who is loved on both sides of the Atlantic. How could I not be proud of that?

John Barrowman

#36. ... don't ever apologize for being who you are. Be gay and be proud.

Amy Kaufman Burk