Gale Harold Quotes

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 don't have any intention to be anti-gay or to persecute the gay community.

Having a big gay following, I get hate mail and threats. Some people are blind or ignorant, and you can't be that prejudiced and hateful and go through this world and still be happy.

Why can't I be friends with somebody who's gay? Why not? You can miss out on a lot by being so small-minded and stereotypical about people. It's stupid.

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.

I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.

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

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

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

I'm not homophobic; I'm just not gay.

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

I have no patience for homophobia.

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

I don't understand what Republicans have to gain from appearing like we're mean to gay people.

Discrimination at any level sends a harmful message to youth, gay or straight alike, and that discrimination has no place in Scouting.

Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.

Now people won't beat you up if you are gay; they might just talk behind your back.

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

Most of my favorite people in my life are gay. It's something I'm super passionate about, because whenever I would see my friends get bullied, or my brother get hurt for his sexuality, I would become a raging lunatic.

We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.

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.