Huey Newton Quotes

This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.

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

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

Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

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 and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about.

No one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.

It should never be a crime to be gay.

A person's safety and quality of life should not be conditioned upon who they love or how they identify.

We have so much discrimination in this world - colour, race, creed, all of these things - and there is an issue here that the right of marriage in the civil law is not extended to same-sex couples.

I believe that individuals in our country should not face discrimination for their sex or their gender or their sexual orientation.

They always try to make it like jocks discriminate against gay people. I've been a big proponent of gay marriage for a long time, because as a black person, I can't be in for any form of discrimination at all.

When you look at the homosexual agenda, I cannot support something that I believe brings nothing but self-destruction, not only physically but of their soul.

You talk about the Pro-Life movement being one of the great shames of our nation. I think, if you want number two, I think - I think it's that. I think it's absolute - it's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights.

Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.

Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.

And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.

What's great about it is that you see, the great struggle for gay people is that the politics is just not going to work for us.

Discriminating against same-sex couples just isn't right.

It isn't that it's questionable when you speak up for the right of people with different sexual orientation. People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation. People are killed because they're gay.

Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it.

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.