Quotes About Gay Acceptance

#1. I was calling you earlier when your name and number flashed up on my cell's screen. But instead of it being you, it was Chris."
"You still have my number programed into your phone?

Shaye Evans

#2. A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

David Mamet

#3. I'd cycled through the stages of rejection - denial, anger, homicidal mania, hating Matt's stupid face, and acceptance

Tim Anderson

#4. I remember thinking that I could disguise the way I am by somehow filtering my expression for the sake of juvenile social acceptance or I could say to the world, "Here I am, if you don't like it, don't clap."
-Boys of the Fatherless-

David C. Riggins

#5. Traditional Anglicans - whether in Nigeria or Nottingham - have been wary, at best, of the acceptance and welcome given to gay men and women and their sexual choices by secular society.

Michael Gove

#6. Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.

Colin Bateman

#7. Gay rights and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about.

Mary Lambert

#8. These guys sit in the Senate - even though he misses most of the votes, by the way - but he sits in the Senate and listens to this stuff all the time.I'm out working, producing jobs all over the place and building a great company.

Donald Trump

#9. Closely connected things can remain utterly different.

Nicholas Thomas

#10. While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.

Edmund White

#11. After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

Elliot Perlman

#12. Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.

Johnny Cash

#13. I've lived in this world a long time, and you can't change what you like, even if you'd want to.

Hunter Murphy

#14. I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.

Cass McCombs

#15. History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.

Amit Chaudhuri

#16. They wouldn't beat him up. They wouldn't break his ribs. He knew that. But they had other ways of breaking him - with silence, with disappointment, with disapproval.

David Levithan

#17. In my work with young Jewish adults in the gay community, I hear their stories of discrimination, of struggling for acceptance, of feeling invisible not for what they have done but simply for who they are.

Lynn Schusterman

#18. People spend thousands of dollars trying to keep their teeth straight. I just hope we can live in a world where we accept gay teeth.

Craig Ferguson

#19. By seeing a same-sex couple in ordinary situations, that it might make people think twice about if they have, you know, questions about acceptance of LGBT equality, it's one way to just say that, you know, 'We're members of your family and gay people are like anybody else.'

George Takei

#20. The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#21. It has taken countless hours of prayer, study, conversation and emotional turmoil to bring me to the place where I am finally ready to call for the full acceptance of Christian gay couples into the Church.

Tony Campolo

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

P. J. O'Rourke

#23. He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#24. I've found more tolerance, acceptance and inclusion from social conservative groups who have to reconcile that I'm a Republican who happens to be gay ... versus the intolerance the LGBT leaders see me as a gay man who happens to be a Republican.

Carl DeMaio

#25. There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual orientation didn't make us all the same. But it did affect us. It had to.

Kelly J. Cogswell

#26. Her heart was finished. It bore, perhaps, records of life, but it wasn't alive. Too late for decoration. Too late for effects. Further handling could only result in cracks and fractures. People could cut themselves on the edgesof her heart, she was sure of it.

Stephanie Kallos

#27. It's Miranda who speaks up. "You're gay," she says, with complete seriousness. "And I love you.

David Levithan