Quotes About Inclusion

My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay.

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.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

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'm gay, and I was born this way.

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

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

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

If there are countries that discriminate against the gay community, they are the countries that I will not spend my own personal money. I will go for work there, but I will not spend my own money there. Why would I?

For a long time, gay men fought to be seen as different, doing our own thing: This is our lives; this is what we do. Accept it. There's a conservatism that has come into the gay community: 'We're just like you, just like everyone else.'

I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important.

I think gay marriage should be the national law.

I believe in gay marriage.

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

In the world I've lived in, gay marriage, for example, seems completely logical. And yet there are many people who don't live in that world.

It shouldn't be an issue that we have a black president. Gay marriage shouldn't be an issue. And women being funny shouldn't be an issue.

By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.

Bisexuality started a long, long time ago. You just have to support it. There's nothing wrong with it. We all bleed the same, we're all going one way in the end - six feet down. I support the gays 24/7.