Gay Quotes by Cleve Jones

Cleve Jones

Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they’re – they are gay or transgender.

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I am not proud to be gay any more than I am proud to be right handed or to breathe oxygen.

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I am old school, I joined the gay liberation movement in 1972. If you had told me in 1972 that in the year 2009 I would be campaigning for the right to join the army or get married I think I would have started dating women at that time.

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There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught, and I had already experienced quite a bit of bullying. And, you know, I just thought that only misery lay ahead, and that if I – when I got caught that would be the solution. I wish I could say that was a thing of the past. But, you know, it’s not.

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Gay Quotes by Cleve Jones

Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they’re – they are gay or transgender.

I am not proud to be gay any more than I am proud to be right handed or to breathe oxygen.

I am old school, I joined the gay liberation movement in 1972. If you had told me in 1972 that in the year 2009 I would be campaigning for the right to join the army or get married I think I would have started dating women at that time.

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