Alice Dreger Quotes

I don't think any gay dude is gangsta, period.

I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.

In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country.

To call me gay is a compliment. Also, if I'd been macho, I'd just have had an audience full of men.

I wish transphobia, biphobia, homophobia didn't exist, and I wish that's what the show could just be, but sadly that's not the situation around the world.

Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.

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 nothing wrong with being gay, but I'm not.

I have to be careful, as I don't want to offend Midlanders, but growing up, it wasn't like growing up in London. Anything you were interested in, you'd be able to find someone also interested in it. In the Midlands, nobody came out as gay at my school at all.

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.

As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.

I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

I don't think I'm a gay icon. I have no axe to grind. I mean, I'm clearly not homophobic! I'm not pro or con.

When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.

When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.

I'm not really sure what gay propaganda is.