I think that in many ways, gays are behind women and behind blacks, as far as rights go. But I always say, if you know one of us, it's hard to hate us.
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Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about whether we believe in civil rights for all people or not. As Black people we need to remember the moment that we say it's okay to disenfranchise one segment of society, we're opening the door to move backward on ourselves.
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 don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.
I'm for all kinds of gay rights. I'm almost like a gay man myself.
Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this 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.
Gay rights are human rights.
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.
The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.