Lionel Shriver Quotes

I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episodes.' He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.

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.

Now, it's weird not to have gay characters on a show.

There's not a lot of gay programming on TV.

Adam Lambert's continued success as one of the world's best-selling pop stars shows LGBT people that they can be themselves and make it in a mainstream industry that many feel unfairly rejects them.

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

Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.

I remember on the pilot of 'Will and Grace' some executives from NBC saying to me, 'There are too many gay jokes.' I said, 'If not on this show, then what show?'

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

It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.

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

There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche.

Most contemporary Muslims, not just Islamist fundamentalists, view homosexuality as a byproduct of increased Westernization. Because of this view, many people are not concerned with protecting the rights of the gay minority…. Homosexual rape is also a very powerful and often-utilized humiliation tool. Repressive regimes, like those in Iran and Pakistan, use homosexual rape on political opponents as a policy of repression. This tactic is often seen as more politically effective than killing people, as it denies people of their manhood.

Nobody knew if the pilot would even get picked up because it had two gay lead characters, which has never happened before. And now every show has at least two gay characters, if not many more.

If the gay community thinks you're doing a good job, you're in. I don't think anything gets done in this business without the gay community - at least not anything good.

I'm very passionate and believe that every time the LGBT community is featured in the media, people are learning about us.

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 issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicians for decades. I have my own cloudy history with the issue, having supported a law in Mississippi that made it illegal for LGBT couples to adopt children. I believed at the time this was a principled position based on my faith.

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

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.

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.