Quotes About Diversity

Being gay isn't something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.

There's nothing wrong with being gay, but I'm not.

Being gay has never been a big deal to me, which is why it's a little funny to be getting all this attention about it.

My parents are kind and accepting. Because so many of my friends were gay, it was just an accepted thing in my house. I was very lucky.

Gay men are still men.

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week.

It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.

People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.

My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.

I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay.

I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years, which is like 60 in straight-people years.

It's not being marketed as a gay show by a gay person. It's just Ellen DeGeneres.

I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.

Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.

I don't think you choose whether or not you're gay.

I'm gay, and I was born this way.

It should never be a crime to be gay.

Most of my friends in New York are single women or gay men.

I don't know if I make the best gay films.

I'm the only gay person my parents know.

The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.

I've had so many crushes on gay boys.

I don't think anyone wants to be gay.