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Equality is truly sweet.
Gay rights are human rights.
I'm not a gay rights activist.
Darling, I want my gay rights now.
Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong.
I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
I'm saying it loud: I'm a Republican who supports gay rights.
I have many gay friends who don't support gay marriage either.
I'm for all kinds of gay rights. I'm almost like a gay man myself.
I'm a gay rights supporter. I'm a human-rights campaign initiative person.
Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.
Gay rights and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about.
What Russia really needs is not gay rights but human rights, and the rule of law.
One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.
Barack and I see a future... where no one, no one is forced to live in the shadows of intolerance.
I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.
I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.
Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.
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 filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
When you start talking about abortion and gay rights, people take that seriously and they're passionate about it - on both sides.
I am not as knowledgeable about the struggle for gay rights, for our history, the way some of my castmates or other gay men I know are.
Protests, such as those in favor of labor rights, women's suffrage, civil rights and gay rights, helped to make America as great as it is.
Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.
Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get right on gay rights.
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.
I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren't allowed to get married in most parts of America. I'd go on a march for gay rights any time.
If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.
Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.
I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.
The more I've been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that it all intersects. You can't really pick it apart. It's all intertwined.
If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
As I got more into gay rights, I got more into equal pay, and you just see that it's all connected. You can't really speak out on one thing and not another without it not being the full picture.
With the rise of the push for gay rights, it is beyond wanting there to be an appreciation and respect for gay rights. Now a segment of our population is seeking to have that right trump religious freedom.
For historic reasons - principally the political Right's opposition to gay rights - most gay spokespeople continue to think that the political Right is the sole locale from which anti-gay sentiment can come.
I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber - as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals - are Christians but we journalists don't identify them by their religion.
I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.
There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.
It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house.
You look at the Americans. They don't lack fervour in moral causes. They promote democracy, freedom of speech, women's rights, gay rights, sometimes even transgender rights. But you don't see them applying that universally across the world with all their allies.
I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.
Gay rights are not primarily marriage rights, and for the millions who live in unaccepting places with no resources, dignity remains elusive. I am lucky to have forged meaning and built identity, but that's still a rare privilege. And gay people deserve more, collectively, than the crumbs of justice.
When I got lucky enough to be successful as an actor, and I got involved in the anti-war stuff and gay rights movement, there was always this thing eating at me about the death penalty, because that was, to me, the bottom line. That was the anti-life - by definition - position, and I didn't understand why we did it.
There was a point in the latter 1990s at which, suddenly, every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay or lesbian character or couple. That was good news as a voucher of the success of the gay rights movement, but it still grew a bit tiresome: 'Look at us! Our show is so hip, one of the characters is homosexual!'