Todd Haynes Quotes

It just seems like the culture war is over, and the gay kissers won.

The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world... As a gay man I feel very strongly about those issues around the world - there've been huge changes and developments, but there are still places where things are scary.

More people more accepting of civil unions and gay marriage, which our pollster said was the most significant change they've seen on any social issue. So, this country is changing in a way.

When the message out there is so horrible that, to be gay, you can get killed for it... we need to change the message!!

I'm a UFC fighter, a macho-type sport. I am a heterosexual guy in a tough macho sport, which is exactly the reason I feel a duty to say I support gay marriage and gay rights. I have nothing to gain personally from supporting this issue, and that's the point. Society as a whole is better when there is equality, and I want to live in a country where everyone has the same rights because we all benefit from that.

There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

It's not like the right for gay people to marry just happened.

The last time I checked, the only difference between my gay friends and I is who we choose to love. I'm not sure how that warrants a loss of rights, but it needs to stop. What ever happened to liberty and justice for all?

Love is love. It doesn't matter how or who you love. I don't believe the messiah would condemn gay men and women.

This moon man right here stands for a lot more. This is the most important record out of all of them. Gay rights are human rights, there is no separation.

So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating.

I am a fierce supporter of Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and gay rights in this country.

History moves fast. It's hard to believe that gay Americans achieved full constitutional personhood just five years after corporations did!

Gay marriage is inevitable. The next generation, they get it. It is just a matter of time before it becomes a reality.

Gay people do not fight for freedom to live in a lavender bubble, but in a more just society.

Being gay is a natural normal beautiful variation on being human. Period. End of subject. Therefore, any argument which says differently is an immoral supremacist one. Call it out as such. ... Be outraged, offended, angry and intolerant of any discussion or any one who describes you as unequal, undeserving or unnatural for being just as you are.

A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer. It's the civil rights of our day. It's the issue of our day.

I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.

Gay brothers and sisters... You must come out. Come out to your relatives... come out to your friends... Come out to your neighbors... to your fellow workers... to the people who work where you eat and shop... break down the myths, destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake. For their sake. For the sake of the youngsters who are becoming scared.

I'm not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing.

No country should deny people their rights because of who they love, which is why we must stand up for the rights of gays and lesbians everywhere.

To me, same-sex marriage is like the new normal. I don't give a sh*t. If two gay people want to get married it doesn't bother me. If two people say they love each other and they want to be together, they should be together. Don't you think?

I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement.