Ian Mckellen Quotes

If 'gay' is not in your vocabulary, if being gay is not an option in your world, then you're far more likely to see your kid as anything but gay.

I think there's a lot of gay women in sports, and it's widely known in the team; they can live a pretty open lifestyle without being open in the media.

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

Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight.

I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.

I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

I'm not a gay rights activist.

There are a lot of myths about gay people.

My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto.

As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

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.

It is a little scary to go across the whole country, and basically the world, and be like, 'What's up? I'm gay, and you should let me get married everywhere.' I don't feel like I'm a spokesperson. I just sing what my experience is.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn't marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

I don’t see why a gay person can serve openly in the White House and not be able to serve openly in the military.

Statistics tell us that 10 percent of the population is homosexual. Since we in the Conservative party are representative of the population, there are at least 20 gays in this room. Am I wrong? … Are you ready to deprive these people of their rights?

Male homosexuality, in particular, seems to possess some quality of being intrinsically subversive when let loose in long-established institutions, especially male dominated ones.

I wouldn’t fire gays. I am not going to discriminate.

Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.

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.

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.

I don't see any reason to discriminate against homosexuals.

There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'