Andrew Sullivan Gay Quotations

I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.

I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

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.

I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everybody's gay.

I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.

Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

I'm glad I'm not the only gay guy here--thanks Grover (or as I like to call him, 'Mama Bear.'