Rodrigo Duterte Quotes

I don’t believe that opposite sex and same sex marriages are the same, but I do believe, with growing numbers of Americans, that the time for denigrating or stigmatizing same sex relationships are over.

I think it's great now that we seem to be in an era where it's OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society.

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

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

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

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

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!

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

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'm not against gay people.

Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.

I don’t think that gay people threaten my marriage and I don’t think that the nation is in danger from gays.

Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.

Since I was a young girl in the punk scene, almost all of my friends have been gay or lesbian, so for me, it's an obvious answer when it comes to whether or not gay people should be recognized as equal.

Coming to the Gold Coast and being able to live as an openly gay man is really important.

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.

If I never again had to read or write a word about homosexuals, I would be very happy.

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.

Being gay is no longer a taboo subject in Germany.

I'm not homophobic and I'm not anti-gay.

I have no problems with homosexuals whatsoever.