Quotes About Tolerance

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

My mom pushed me in a baby carriage at Martin Luther King rallies. My grandfather was a union organizer. And to me, there is no room - no room - for discrimination of any kind. To me, it's just an anathema.

It's sometimes the random people that say things that aren't so nice, but that's okay.

If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they allow into their lives. But the people who listen to what we put out into the world have to be open-minded. Because we're so pluralist.

I have a long fuse.

I feel that too much fuss is made about being gay.

You don't lose anything, in fact you gain a lot by having free-thinking people.

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.

Am I a homophobe? Look, I work in show business. I am awash in gay people, as colleagues and as friends.

I'm not against gay people.

First of all, I'm not gay. Second of all, it shouldn't make a difference if I was or if I wasn't.

I don't go into my dentist and say, 'Are you gay?' I don't say to contestants on 'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'Are you gay?' What does it got to do with me? What does it got to do with anybody?

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.

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.

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.

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

It should never be a crime to be gay.

I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

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.

I don't believe in gay marriage, but that doesn't mean I hate people.