85 Quotes About Gay Right

Sexuality is a central part of who you are as a person. Leaving it out of our lives simply isn’t an option. It’s natural and beautiful, and we’ve put together the best quotes about sexuality to help you celebrate your identity and your sexual freedom.

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I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do – to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like. Jess C. Scott
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The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise. Unknown
If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading...
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If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading your faith. DaShanne Stokes
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If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation–mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was. Mary Griffith
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The times today are too dangerous for the young and the smart to be not bothered. Know the truth. Remember, “We can deny the truth. But, we can’t avoid it.” We have been there; we have all been there. Ask a female friend who is fighting for a better pay scale, ask the father of an immigrant who is nervous about the future of his daughter, ask a gay friend who is fighting for the right to marry, ask an African-American friend who wants her younger brother to be unafraid and proud, ask a homeless worker in Bangladesh whose house just got swept by rising sea levels, ask a young child in Beijing who breathes an air polluted by fossil fuels, ask a child labor in India who works ten hours and twelve hours to get two square meals a day. And, when you ask, you will know. You will know why we need to take it personally. . Sharad Vivek Sagar
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You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering. Jodi Picoult
Relationships are valuable no matter who they are between.
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Relationships are valuable no matter who they are between. Donna Goddard
Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions religious...
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Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions religious institutions have created problems for same-sex marriage. DaShanne Stokes
Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.
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Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law. DaShanne Stokes
Love should never mean having to live in fear.
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Love should never mean having to live in fear. DaShanne Stokes
In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is...
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In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant. Abhijit Naskar
The power of love is that it sees all people.
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The power of love is that it sees all people. DaShanne Stokes
The world could use more love. Why deny it to...
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The world could use more love. Why deny it to others? DaShanne Stokes
People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but...
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People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most. DaShanne Stokes
What does love mean if we would deny it to...
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What does love mean if we would deny it to others? DaShanne Stokes
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You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn't have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not what person belongs to what group. Ron Paul
Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me...
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Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms. Allen Ginsberg
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[P]eople only make decisions based on what they know. You can have everyone in the country vote freely and democratically and still come up with the wrong answer - if the information they base that decision on is wrong. People don't want the truth [when] it is complicated. They don't want to spend years debating an issue. They want it homogenized, sanitized, and above all, simplified into terms they can understand.. Governments are often criticized for moving slowly, but that deliberateness, it turns out, is their strength. They take time to think through complex problems before they act. People, however, are different. People react first from the gut and then from the head..give that knee-jerk reflex real power to make its overwhelming will known as a national mandate instantly and you can cause a political riot. Combine these sins - simplification of information and instant, visceral democratic mandates - and you lose the ability to cool down. There is no longer deliberation time between events that may or may not be true and our reaction to them. Policy becomes instinct rather than thought. Tracy Hickman
If you voted for a man who said
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If you voted for a man who said "Grab em by the pussy, " you have zero room to claim to protect anyone in bathrooms. DaShanne Stokes
I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you...
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I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it. DaShanne Stokes
Today's 'religious freedom' policies should not be seen as a...
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Today's 'religious freedom' policies should not be seen as a problem limited to LGBT people but as a co-optation of religion that affects us all. DaShanne Stokes
Only by speaking out can we create lasting change. And...
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Only by speaking out can we create lasting change. And that change begins with coming out. DaShanne Stokes
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There is no indication that any church official suggested or supported the emperor's action against gay people. On the contrary, the only persons known by name to have been punished for homosexual acts were prominent bishops. John Boswell
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The Catholic Church standing in "solidarity" with members of the LGBT community while condemning their behavior as "sinful" is a little like attempting to stand with two feet in one shoe. "Love the sinner, hate the sin" sounds really high-minded until you realize the only sin committed was being born different. Quentin R. Bufogle
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The heavy warlike losses of the AIDS years were relegated to queer studies classrooms, taught as gay history and not American history. Alysia Abbott
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Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race. Abhijit Naskar
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Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both. Abhijit Naskar
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Homosexuals are not made, they are born. Abhijit Naskar
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Homosexuality is immutable, irreversible and nonpathological. Abhijit Naskar
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Being homosexual is no more abnormal than being lefthanded. Abhijit Naskar
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Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your dearly beloved is a sin! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, women are inferior to men, and are meant only serve the men! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, a man can have multiple wives, and yet be deemed civilized! Here that somebody is a fundamentalist ape - a theoretical pest from the stone-age, that somehow managed to survive even amidst all the rise of reasoning and intellect. Abhijit Naskar
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Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying Little League-coaching nation-serving respectably married citizens. So why not welcome them in Why not recruit them by the vanload to sweep in on heroic wings and save the flagging and battered old institution of matrimony from a bunch of apathetic ne'er-do-well heterosexual deadbeats like me . Elizabeth Gilbert
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... gay marriage rights coming and going, always being an issue for the voting public when it should be an individual‘s private choice. G.A. Hauser
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Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress. DaShanne Stokes
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. W. Somerset Maugham
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America- often called the land of milk and honey- tends to be sweeter, more generous to those who don't rock the boat. Sarah Mullen Erin Passons
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I crunch the assigned reading in my shaking hand, an article titled “Dan Quayle was right.” It argued that children raised by single moms were destined for failure. Joined by my fellow students, we argue that our lives are not limited by our absent fathers. The teacher laughs awkwardly and backs away from our arguments. “For God’s sake, don’t take it personally.” The cardinal sin of women and oppressed people everywhere: taking their lives personally.- S.A. Williams . Erin Passons
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A conversation in which the two parties have different beliefs should never begin with the intention of converting the other party to your own beliefs. Every worthwhile conversation's goal should be to understand the other person's opinions and help them understand your own. Emily Eskowich
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Jesus didn't fight against what was wrong. But he fought for what was right. Ricky Maye
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If Christians are all loving and full of God's grace (like some of us really are), do they truly love their neighbor? Would they catch a grenade for one of us (like some of us would for them because we truly have love in our hearts)? Solange Nicole
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As a young gay African, I have been conditioned from an early age to consider my sexuality a dangerous deviation from my true heritage as a Somali by close kin and friends. As a young gay African coming of age in London, there was another whiplash of cultural confusion that one had to recover from again and again: that accepting your sexual identity doesn’t necessarily mean that the wider LGBT community, with its own preconceived notions of what constitutes a "valid" queer identity, will embrace you any more welcomingly than your own prejudiced kinsfolk do. Diriye Osman
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[A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I wanted to write a near future book about AIDS concentration camps. They were vehement in their response: they thought it was a terrible idea. Their words both shocked and saddened me. "Do you really want to write a book about homosexuals?" they asked me. "Won't people who read your work be influenced toward sin?" I notice that I don't hear from them much lately. Tracy Hickman
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Saying it's hard being straight is like complaining to the poor that it's difficult being wealthy. DaShanne Stokes
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If you think being straight means you're being discriminated against, you're probably misreading your privilege. DaShanne Stokes
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Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't. DaShanne Stokes
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Bigots often like to say they're the ones being hurt as they oppress and hurt others. Never fall for the 'pity the privileged' routine. DaShanne Stokes
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Trump didn't divide America. He just doused us with gasoline and fanned the flames. DaShanne Stokes
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Building bridges takes us further than building walls. DaShanne Stokes
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What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege? DaShanne Stokes
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It's terrifying to think you could become the next statistic. DaShanne Stokes
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What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are. DaShanne Stokes
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I believe a Christian muffler shop owner should have the same right to refuse service to a gay couple, as a gay lifeguard has to refuse service to a drowning Christian. Quentin R. Bufogle
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I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I’m obsessed with horror films. I know what shame feels like. And guess what old man? Jesus is still my Savior. Hayley Williams
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If you're gay and politically aware, you see politicians sacrifice American ideals in general and gays' lives in particular on the altars of "tolerance" and "diversity". You see politicians and media pundits not only tolerating but embracing Islamic savages and their pedophile prophet. You see politicians put your right to life below a Muslim's right to escape from the countries they themselves created. You see politicians importing your own murderers. You see media pundits Balkanize the country into special interest groups to make it easy for politicians to divide and conquer - and you don't want to be conquered. Mike Klepper
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There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate. DaShanne Stokes
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Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen. Herb Ritts
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Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live. DaShanne Stokes
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All our hope rests upon the possibility of a change of the laws which concern it, so that only rape or the comission of public offence, when this can be proved at the same time, shall be punishable. Richard Von KrafftEbing
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Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all. DaShanne Stokes
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Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It's progress. DaShanne Stokes
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Black, white, Latino, gay, straight — if any one of them came across a bear in the woods, they’d all taste like chicken. Jennifer Lane
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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. Unknown
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It takes no compromise to give people their rights...it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression. Harvey Milk
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Not all gays respond to the same stuff. Would Alexander the Great have loved Auntie Mame? Bruce Bawer
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Frankly, it's self-evident. As people of faith, it's our duty to love everyone, the way God loves everyone. There's no reason why any one group is less deserving of love - either the love of a church community, to the love of a family - than any other. Robin Talley
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We want to stay in the sunlight from now on. Efforts to force us back in the closet could be disastrous for all concerned. Dick Leitsch
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We, gays, can get married in Canada. We let heterosexuals too, but that was a huge thing, we had to have a referendum and a vote, it’s crazy! But then we were like, if they want to get married.. that’s cool. That’s gonna destroy their relationships, but.. Heterosexuals deserve the same rights as homosexuals. Tegan Quin
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Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking. Derek Jarman
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How fair is it to judge a person based on his sexual preferences, or their ‘otherness’? As long as a person is not ‘harmful’ for others or not violating the rights of others, I think we need not be bothered about their personal lives, whom they love or whom they marry. It is a personal choice. I think the most important thing about a person is his or her ‘humanity’, kindness, selflessness not their ‘sex life’ (only as long as he or she is not violating the rights of others or causing harm to others). It is entirely a disgrace on humanity to ‘discriminate’ a person solely based on their ‘otherness’. I am surprised to see how the society stands against or make fun out of ‘gay’ people, who are totally harmless, ignoring the ‘human’ in them, but feel ‘OK’ with ‘rapists’, ‘sex maniacs’, ‘prostitution’ and ‘sexual violence against women and children’ occurring in Sri Lanka every day. Ama H. Vanniarachchy
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Terror doesn't change people from gay to straight. It just hurts innocent people. DaShanne Stokes
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Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake--you know, to send the right message to kids. Bill Maher
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It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. Daphne Fielding
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[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them James Howe
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Amber Rorman had told me too that our third grade teacher, Ms. Lizetti, was really a lesbian, which I thought was a disease until I asked Amber and Amber told me to ask her mother who told me to ask my mother, who said, “Lesbians are women who like to have sex with other women, ” which I didn’t think was all that weird. Shannon Celebi
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Amazing how eye and skin color come in many shades yet many think sexuality is just gay or straight. DaShanne Stokes
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The Mafia’s involvement with gay bars is ironic on so many levels. Macho guys ruled gangland but supported a subculture for nelly queens. Most mobsters were evil sociopaths motivated only by financial self-interest but nevertheless were doing a good thing in providing social spaces for the gay community. The mob was on the wrong side of the liquor laws by serving gay folk but on the right side of the 14th Amendment in arguing for equal protection. The Mafia exploited an oppressed community but advanced the gay cause. Phillip Crawford Jr.
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What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title–whether it's 'black actor, ' a 'gay actor' or 'anything actor, ' Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are. I hope the media and the press catches on to that because it's time to move out of 1992. Matthew Bomer
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Most importantly, the epidemic was only news when it was not killing homosexuals. In this sense, AIDS remained a fundamentally gay disease, newsworthy only by the virtue of the fact that it sometimes hit people who weren't gay, Randy Shilts
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Gay rights aren't predicated on being born gay or having the right gene. Gay rights are predicated on having choice and consent. If you're a man and you can find another man that consents to have sex with you, it's the consent that gives you the right to have sex with him. Genetics are irrelevant when it comes to sexual rights. Just as gay rights are based on choice and consent, so are prostitution rights. All sexual rights are based on choice and consent. Chester Brown
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I wasn’t raised in a household where it was considered abnormal to be gay. So for me to meet people who use the word 'faggot' as an insult, with a derogatory meaning, I can’t take it. I don’t understand it. It’s so foreign to me. I was raised in a household where being gay was like, the most normal thing. You know, my brother is gay, all of my best friends are gay. When my brother came out of the closet, it wasn’t a big deal for my family. Even my grandpa, who is like, super old-school, was like, Good for you! It’s outrageous to me when I see people hate on someone because of their sexuality. I hate the intolerance. I hate the judgment. I hate it so much. Most of my favorite people in my life are gay. It’s something I’m super passionate about, because whenever I would see my friends get bullied, or my brother get hurt for his sexuality, I would become a raging lunatic. I would literally become a raging lunatic because I just can’t take it. When you see someone you love hurting, for such a superficial, bullshit reason, it’s like, how small and spiritually unenlightened and dumb as fuck can a person be? How much further can your head get up your ass that you’re actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them? . Ariana Grande
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She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol? Patricia Highsmith
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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Unknown
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At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black. George Clooney
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You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to be you so be you proudly. Tegan Quin