Richard Grenell Quotes

I was the first mayor to even go meet with the LGBT community.

I'm saying it loud: I'm a Republican who supports gay rights.

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.

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.

My wife and I have many friends that are gay, and we welcome LGBT people to attend our church.

Members of the LGBT community should feel welcome and know their rights are protected regardless of what state they reside in.

If LGBT people can identify with our story, if they think, 'The Golden Lovers are my team,' I'm good with that.

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.

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

I support equal rights for LGBT Americans.

For more than two decades, GLAAD has combatted anti-LGBT images in the media and changed the national conversation about LGBT people.

The reality is that Hillary Clinton has been a steadfast supporter of LGBT equality. She has evolved on the issue of LGBT equality, and I think we are a better movement when we give people space to grow and learn. We can't reduce it to a single issue like marriage equality.

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

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.

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 think growing up in skating, I was surrounded by the LGBT community, so I grew up very aware because I was around it so often, and some of the kindest people I know are gay figure skaters.

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

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

My goal is to bring the issues that were never brought up on federal TV, such as LGBT rights, which are a shock for many people because they really think that those people should go to prison, they shouldn't have any rights. And moreover, there is lots of people who share the idea that they should be punished for being LGBT, just for the fact.

President Clinton's support of the LGBT community and recognition that DOMA, the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, is unconstitutional and should be struck down shows that the political landscape continues to change in favor of LGBT equality. Leaders and allies like President Clinton are critical to moving our march for equality forward.

Gays and lesbians should have the same rights as anybody else, and when they're in Jamaica, they do have the same rights.

There are no authentic reports in any of the Muslim books of history of the Prophet Muhammad punishing anyone for same-sex acts.

There are not actually many people in Finland who are openly gay together, let alone two women.