Quotes About Acceptance

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

I think, as a gay man in society, we are not accepted yet... let alone a gay man with a kid.

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.

I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.

I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.

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.

I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.

Gay men are still men.

I am a gay American.

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.

Without gay men, I am nothing.

My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

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 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.

My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.

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.