Jack Hampton Quotes

I don't understand why gay people are so anxious to get married.

I think it's always good for gay people to come out, but it's also understandable why people might choose not to do so.

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.

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

I'm fine with gays. I have nothing against gays.

When I started, you couldn't do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 - it was so difficult.

I oppose discrimination against homosexuals, but I do not support them, either.

For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.

Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, “It's not like I hate gay people.”

More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of 'family values' makes 'family values' look more and more like common bigotry.

There are still parts of the country where it's hard: when you realize you're gay, it's like a death sentence.

Nobody wants to be seen with a bigot.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Given my own experience, I would still prefer it if my son were not gay. I would love him and accept him unconditionally, of course. But I know that even in this day and age, life is still harder for gay people.

People don't think the struggles gay people have are worth talking about because everyone's decided that we're all equals now. Those struggles are much more subtle now. But the weight of being different does carry on.

A lot of people thought I was gay.

I have friends who are in gay relationships and I don't think it's right for people to be against that.

When your doctor and neighbours and child's schoolteachers know you are gay, there is no closet for you to hide in.

I first read 'The Scarlet Letter' when I was fifteen. In it, I found a familiar vision of religious intolerance to the one around me. I grew up in the 1980s, when televangelists, with their fluffed up hair and their tears, self-righteously denounced all kinds of sinners, reserving a special, full-throated enthusiasm for gay people.

I had examples from a very young age of gay actors or personalities coming out in late '90s and early 2000s who faced a lot of backlash and didn't have a lot of support and risked ruining their careers.

I knew from a very, very early age that I was gay, although in the social environment in Venezuela, you don't ever let that be known.

I don't know how it plays in San Francisco. But I can tell you I came out, during a reelection campaign, in Indiana, while Mike Pence was the governor. And I wound up winning reelection by 80 percent.

Seriously I just don't get why straight people are so afraid of the fact that gay people can get married.

I am uncomfortable judging people, as we - members of the film fraternity - are judged more than anybody else.

I think there would be situations that will occur on the field that would be tough for a person who is homosexual, because I know there will be people definitely taking shots at him.