Sean Hayes Quotes

Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.

One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

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

I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

Gays and lesbians gained rights in this country though activism and organizing, creating political space and demanding change so that lawmakers and justices could do what they knew was right. That organizing allowed Americans to get to know gays and lesbians as our daughters and sons, our neighbors, and our friends.

As a gay man, I think the role of culture is central to how you change politics - culture is politics.

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.

I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have love in your life, you can be a contributing member of society and you can be respected - I think that's it.

I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

I wrote 'Milk' for me. I wrote it for the younger version of me that had no clue that there are people who'd ever fought for my rights.

Harvey Milk gave hope to generations of gay and lesbian Americans by encouraging them to live their lives openly and to speak out against the discrimination and prejudice they faced.

We figured out as a community of gay people, we have to take care of our own.

It is important that you're out, and it is important that you're visible.

In all honesty, when you talk about 'the gay community,' you are talking about my community, haha.

Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible - to live in the truth, as I say - to get out of the lie.

When I came out in September 1994, I was, as far as I know, the only out lesbian in British public life.

The Stonewall uprising was a day when brave individuals took to the streets to fight back against harassment and hate, and by doing so, helped to push the long history of LGBTQ activism into a nationwide movement.

I am committed to standing up for the LGBTQ community and being a strong voice.

Thank George Michael for your radical activism in the LGBTQ community! Love you always!

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.