Gilbert Baker Quotes

Flags say something. You put a rainbow flag on your windshield, and you're saying something.

I think the Rainbow Flag will survive forever, primarily because it's the perfect flag, regardless of whatever political meaning it may have or evolve to.

It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior.

We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.

Queerness is the lens that I live my life through.

The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.

I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

It's just unbelievable that nearly every gay human being knows who I am now - that's overwhelming.

The reason the rainbow flag endures is because people own it. It means something to them.

The Olympics is a cool opportunity to represent our country, which is amazing. But I have another community I am competing for, and that is the LGBT community.

What the rainbow has given our people is a thing that connects us.

As a gay black man, it's important to me to show up - that I'm able to show up as my whole self, in every space that I'm in, because that's how I'm able to be the most true to who I am.

The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can't see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages.

It's great to be out and proud.

Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.

You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.

Without gay men, I am nothing.

It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.

As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

I come as one package deal. An Irish lesbian who wakes up every day and goes to work. And I don't spend a lot of time thinking about being 'the first this' or 'the first that' because it would take up space in my brain.

There's nothing wrong with being gay, but I'm not.

We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.

I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

I don't feel closeted.