I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.

- Dan Savage

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

- Dolly Parton

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

- Edmund White

I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

- Edmund White

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

- George Weinberg

Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.

- George Weinberg

America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, 'Our gays are better than their gays,' but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay.

- Henry Rollins

There are gays and lesbians in every country, so there should be no discrimination against them just because of their destiny.

- Hun Sen

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

- Joel Osteen

I'm fine with gays. I have nothing against gays.

- Rodrigo Duterte

If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you.

- Troy Perry