“Elaine: My father thought George was gay. Jerry: It must have been the singing. Elaine: No, he pretty much thinks everybody’s gay.”— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Elaine Benes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com
“Constance Langdon: Man shall not lie with man. It is an abomination. Chad Warwick: So's that hairdo, but I figure that's your business.”— Tim Minear, Constance Langdon, Jessica Lange, imdb.com
“My parents and I didn’t speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.”— Gilbert Baker, miamiherald.com
“They had a whole code of emblems that they used to oppress people, and we needed something to answer that.”— Gilbert Baker, cbc.ca
“[Gay] people were psychopaths, criminals. I was afraid my family would lock me up and give me electroshock. I was a screaming queen.”— Gilbert Baker, miamiherald.com
“We took the gay pride parade with 50,000 people to 500,000. Anita Bryant had the effect of galvanizing the whole gay movement. She was somebody whom everybody could hate. She was easy to hate.”— Gilbert Baker, miamiherald.com
“Anita Bryant is an important figure in gay history because she enraged a generation of people who got active.”— Gilbert Baker, miamiherald.com
“Dude, could you be more gay? Don't answer that.”— Cathryn Humphris, Dean Winchester, Jensen Ackles, imdb.com
“In most of the world, it’s still not cool to be gay. You can be murdered in these places. You can be thrown in jail. Being gay in San Francisco is fun. Being gay in Saudi Arabia—that's a whole other matter.”— Gilbert Baker, time.com
“There is latent homophobia in our community. They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It's absurd.”— Al Sharpton, nysun.com
“It's not the '90s anymore. I think the gay community is a lot more accepted these days.”— Tila Tequila, foxnews.com
“They wouldn’t be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools up in New England. That drives the left insane and that’s why they hate these women.”— Steve Bannon, buzzfeed.com
“You know that just admitting a man is handsome doesn't necessarily make you a homosexual.”— Gregg Kavet, Andy Robin, Elaine Benes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com
“I am not gay. I am, however, thin, single, and neat. Sometimes when someone is thin, single, and neat people assume they are gay because that is a stereotype. They normally don't think of gay people as fat, sloppy, and married. Although I'm sure there are, I don't want to perpetuate the stereotype.…”— Larry Charles, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“There's been a big misunderstanding here! We did that whole thing for your benefit. We knew you were eavesdropping. That's why my friend said all that. It was on purpose! We're not gay! Not that there's anything wrong with that.”— Larry Charles, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“What causes homophobia? What is it that makes a heterosexual man worry? I think it's because men know that deep down we have weak sales resistance. We're constantly buying shoes that hurt us, pants that don't fit right. Men think, ‘Obviously I can be talked into anything. What if I accidentally wand…”— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“It moved! It was imperceptible but I felt it.”— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“Two years ago, Kim Davis denied David Ermold a marriage license because he was gay, despite it being legalized.Today, she had to watch as he signed up to run against her in the next election.”— Cole Ledford, twitter.com
“You've got a couple of same-sex guys kissing, do you like that? Well, that makes me want to throw up. To me, I would punch ‘vomit,’ not ‘like,’ but they don't give you that option on Facebook.”— Pat Robertson, kansascity.com
“Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group…”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org