Vincent Bugliosi Quotes

They probably realized our interview would do more damage to their pro-'gay' piece - rather than help it.

As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

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.

Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, it's just another normal.

I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved.

I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.

I don't believe that homosexuals really want to marry, most of them. They're all different, and some have different views.

People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.

Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.

Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.

I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay.

I'm not against gay people.

What rights are there for homosexuals? The only right is to be led to repentance. To live in such defilement of the body, in such dishonour, in such abomination, while all the time asking for liberties the church cannot grant, is unbelievable.

You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'

I've had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children. But at the same time, they're people, and they're going to do their thing.

I'm not opposed to gays, but if you bring one of those suckers into my school and they try to push their crap on my students, I have a problem with that.