"I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly."

Gay, Limitations, Now, Religious

23

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly."

Exlpore more Gay quotes

"Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian."

Laura Innes, American Actress

Gay, Intention, Lesbian

"The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date."

Sean Hayes, American Actor

Gay, Right, Will, Writers

"I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it."

Portia de Rossi, Australian Actress

Gay, Question, Talk

"Lately, I've been a little sad that I'm not a gay man."

Gina Gershon, American Actress

Gay, Man

"Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'."

George Colman, English Dramatist

Gay, Man

"When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s."

Neil Tennant, English Musician

Gay, Now, Want

"Homophobia is gay."

Frank Iero, American Musician

Gay,

"The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay."

Troy Perry, American Clergyman

Gay,

"An operetta is simply a small and gay opera."

Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer

Gay, Opera

"I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism."

Harry Hay, American Celebrity

Gay, Press

Explore more quotes by Lionel Blue

"Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off."

Test

"To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies."

Enemy

"On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned."

Work

"I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses."

Soul

"I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how."

Thought

"I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford."

Quakers

"I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get."

Love

"I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs."

Fear

"The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge."

Spiritual

"The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me."

Love