Quotes About Acceptance

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.

Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think it's about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.

There is a large group that's not represented on television - the group that falls somewhere in the middle of straight and gay. That group is looked down on, because people say, 'You can't be in-between. You have to pick one or the other.'

I love straight guys that seem gay. I'm a little like that.

How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

I've given up on trying to explain myself, or trying to set the record straight, or trying to get people to understand what I'm really like as a man, outside of my acting, outside of my job.

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

I stayed with my pants to the back and my big clothes for as long as I wanted to, and when I felt like, 'Oh all these girls giving body, let me show I got something to work with too.' So that's what that was all about. It had nothing to do with letting people know I was straight or gay.

He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.

People, a lot of times, don't like what's different. When it's something different out there, the majority of people will be like 'aww, that's wack!' but if it's regular, plain or a straight through flow, it's easier for them to adapt to, because everyone likes the normal.

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

The adage that you're either gay or straight or you're lying, well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist.

I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!

Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It's easier for me to flirt with girls now that girls know that I'm gay. It almost makes it a sexier encounter than if I was trying to pretend that I was straight.

In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it.

I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends.

I couldn't care less if someone is gay or straight.

Queer Eye is a makeover show, meant to help our straight brethren.

It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person.

No one knew I was gay growing up but I was bullied. I was a cheerleader, fairly popular and considered straight.