Pastoral Resources

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.

I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.

I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly.

A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really.

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.

I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.

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

When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.

When I first started editing GQ, it gave the impression of being, and in fact was, a gay magazine. There were female models in it and there were women on the cover, but the boys were always much, much more beautiful than the girls.

No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.

I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists.

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.

I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.

Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.