Zoey Tur Quotes

Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one.

Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.

I was the first mayor to even go meet with the LGBT community.

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

I'm not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.

I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.

While it has been mostly unreported, Mr. Trump has embraced the LGBT community like no other GOP nominee in history.

Darling, I want my gay rights now.

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

I'm saying it loud: I'm a Republican who supports gay rights.

I'm for all kinds of gay rights. I'm almost like a gay man myself.

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one area where his record has been impressive. I understand, and have expressed, the emotional importance for LGBT Americans of his marriage announcement as well as its political significance.

My wife and I have many friends that are gay, and we welcome LGBT people to attend our church.

Members of the LGBT community should feel welcome and know their rights are protected regardless of what state they reside in.

I believe marriage equality is a simple change that sends a powerful message. It is a chance for us to say, as a nation, to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex Australians: your love is equal under the law.

Gays and lesbians should have the same rights as anybody else, and when they're in Jamaica, they do have the same rights.

I support equal rights for LGBT Americans.

For more than two decades, GLAAD has combatted anti-LGBT images in the media and changed the national conversation about LGBT people.

If LGBT people can identify with our story, if they think, 'The Golden Lovers are my team,' I'm good with that.

The reality is that Hillary Clinton has been a steadfast supporter of LGBT equality. She has evolved on the issue of LGBT equality, and I think we are a better movement when we give people space to grow and learn. We can't reduce it to a single issue like marriage equality.

Obama has presided over sweeping cultural advances, particularly in the rights of gay and lesbian Americans.

While shooting in Uganda in 2011, the conservative evangelical pastors I was filming - the most ardent supporters of the country's now infamous Anti-Homosexuality Bill - discovered that I myself am gay.