Ander Crenshaw Quotes

I have nothing against homosexuality. I just think that in this day and age most people are not ready to accept it.

I have no patience for homophobia.

I do think homophobia is rife, as it always has been.

If you don't clap for Todrick Hall, guess what Mary, you're a homophobe.

I'm not homophobic and I'm not anti-gay.

If someone doesn't want to work with me because I'm playing a gay character, I don't want to work with them. They can fck off.

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

It's not the '90s anymore. I think the gay community is a lot more accepted these days.

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

For instance, one big issue in hip hop is the gay thing. It's 2013, and it's a shame that, to this day, that topic still gets people all excited. It's crazy. And it makes me upset that this topic even matters when it comes to hip hop, because it makes it seem like everybody in hip hop is small-minded or stupid - and that's not the case.

I've never gone around bashing homosexuals, and I am not homophobic.

Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.

I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.

I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.

I don't like bigotry and intolerance, but they do exist and I don't think you're going to get them out by passing laws.

In the last decade homophobia has been reduced to the margins of Israeli society, but there it is entrenched. Homophobic discourse is still with us. We see it in inciting rabbis who try to use Torah and Halacha (Jewish law) to legitimize their homophobia.

I do not like homosexuality. It bothers me that the World Health Organziation has removed it from its list of mental illnesses.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and be like, 'I know you've never said anything homophobic.' So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you've heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

The whole principle of coming out is that everyone knows someone who's gay. The minute someone comes out, no one can be a bigot, because someone they love is gay.

I said I reject any form of bigotry, bigotry of all kinds.

I've been standing with and united with the gay community. I know so many gay men and women that homophobia is such a baffling thing for me.

I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic.