Jai Rodriguez Quotes

I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't.

I have to be honest: I don't get many, if any - I don't know that I've ever received a phone call in my office from somebody that says they've been discriminated against based on their sexual orientation.

The gay male is always going to be at the bottom.

Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.

I've always felt I've related to women deeply because of being gay and feeling like there was always somebody trying to oppress me, to keep me down, to put me in my place.

I'm a gay man, living an out life for a long time, and it's tiring and anger-making to hear people continue to spit out the same old dreary cliches about the fact that gay men are doing something unnatural, and there'll be a price to pay when the Rapture happens.

I always think that there's a weight of prejudice from the past that gay people perhaps carry around with them. Even if it doesn't exist so much around them, they still have a feeling of being excluded, and perceived prejudice is almost as unsettling as actual prejudice.

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

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

If two people of the same sex fall in love and want to marry, why would our government stand in their way?

Just because I'm in favor of gay rights doesn't mean that I'm gay or doesn't mean I'm some kind of 'sissy' or something. That's the language that you hear in locker rooms.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.

Imagine living in a state where businesses can legally refuse to serve people based on their sexual orientation. Where parents can force their children to undergo conversion therapy to 'cure' them of their 'homosexual tendencies.'

The rap community has been singled out as more homophobic than other groups, but I don't think that's right. It's homophobic, all right, but no more so than the heavy-metal community or the Hollywood community or any other community.

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren't allowed to get married in most parts of America. I'd go on a march for gay rights any time.

I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

I know about homophobia in the music industry - not just in hip-hop. Obviously, we're dealing with homophobia in hip-hop; we're dealing with homophobia in the black community.

We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.

As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.