--Francis Maude
"People sometimes think I'm gay because I once played a gay in a movie. It's funny. Audiences don't think you're a murderer if you play a murderer, but they do think you're gay if you play a gay."
--Perry King
"The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft we can all declare homosexuality instead of running off to Canada."
--Lorne Bloch
"You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people."
--Judith Light
"There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved."
--Boy George
"No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."
--Rita Mae Brown
"Straight Americans need an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul."
--Bruce Bawer
"The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow."
--Charles R. Brown
"God made us who we are. So did science. Therefore, no explanation should be demanded of us for who we are."
--Amy Birdsong
"I tell them that I'm a lesbian but doesn't seem to matter to them - they see in the media is that we haven't met the right guy yet, or that we've been raped or abused by our daddies and we're just waiting for Mr. Right to come sweep us off our feet, and I'm really tired of seeing that."
--Jill Bennett
"If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: 'Hello. Can't work today, still queer.'"
--Robin Tyler
"The Lord is my Shepherd and He knows I'm gay."
--Reverend Troy Perry
"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise."
--Johann von Goethe
"To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood."
--Gore Vidal
"I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant."
--Paul Newman
