Quotes on Gay Pride

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

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.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.

Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.