Dustin Lance Black Quotes

I don’t believe that opposite sex and same sex marriages are the same, but I do believe, with growing numbers of Americans, that the time for denigrating or stigmatizing same sex relationships are over.

Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

I am a gay American.

I often refer to myself as a gay man and all my friends are gay and I would like nothing more than for them to be able to be married.

It is a little scary to go across the whole country, and basically the world, and be like, 'What's up? I'm gay, and you should let me get married everywhere.' I don't feel like I'm a spokesperson. I just sing what my experience is.

I don't care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that time - and there are gay relationships that are more solid than some heterosexual ones - I think it's fine if they want to get married. I don't know how people can get so anti-something.

Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.

If somebody says, 'I am a gay person, and I want to get married,' is their own family going to deny them that? Are our own fellow citizens going to deny them that?

I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.

I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.

When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.

In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.

I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.

I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.

There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.