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  • "I didn't know I was a gay icon. I get a lot of mail -- but I don't get many bad letters -- but I got a woman the other day that was so upset with me because they said, 'How do you feel about the gay marriage thing?' and my answer to that is, 'I really don't care with whom you sleep, I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.' I figure all the rest of it is your business and not mine. And not hers, incidentally." [source] 
  •  On Boy Scouts of America: "I think they should change their stupid rules....When I think about young kids in America who are being bullied and tortured, who are taking their own lives because they feel alone and judged, outcast and misunderstood, I want to sit down and cry a river of tears."[source]
  •  "What people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love. That's their business. It is no different than discriminating against blacks. It's discrimination, plain and simple." [source]
  •  "I think everyone should be treated equally... Love is love! People should be able to do whatever makes them happy!" [source]
  • "Wow… I just heard that President Obama has officially announced that he supports gay marriage!! This is such a huge step forward in our country's fight for civil rights and I hope that today this will give hope to so many young people across the country."  [source]
  • "These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a f*** about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of. ... They go on and on with all this bulls*** about 'sanctity' -- don't give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want." [source]
  • "I'd be devastated if my son grows up to be a hetero. I mean, I'd still love him ... but as a parent you just envision a certain life for your child. I mean, if he's straight, think of all the fabulous things he's going to miss out on. When I think my son might never know the joys of having a quarter share on Fire Island and walking through Judy Garland Memorial Park on the way to the Meat Rack." [source]
  •  "I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay. No one has any right to tell anyone what makes a family." [Source]
  •  “I just want to be clear before we decide to do this together: I’m gay. My music is gay. My show is gay. And I love that it’s gay. And I love my gay fans, and they’re all going to be coming to our show. And it’s going to remain gay.”  [Source]
  •  "It is each American's constitutional right to marry the person they love, no matter what state they inhabit. No state should decide who can marry and who cannot. Thanks to the tireless work of so many, someday soon this discrimination will end and every American will be able to enjoy their equal right to marriage." [Source]
  • "I support marriage equality, my wife Franny and I have been married for 36 years, many of them happy. I think everyone should be able to marry the person that they love and I think our government should help people make those loving, life-long commitments."  [Source]
  •  "My feeling about gay people is that we have a responsibility not only to make gay marriage acceptable and to make gays feel accepted as much as heterosexuals. ... Gay people are downtrodden; they are beaten. They are abused for their sexuality, and it goes across race. In the white community and the black community, gay people are the bastards of the world. And in order for things to change, because any one of you could have gay children or gay relatives or gay friends ... we have a responsibility to make this acceptable, to get all this bullshit so that some gay kid going to high school doesn't get the shit beaten out of him just because he's gay. ... I'm as heterosexual as they come. What is this hang-up about gay marriage? Who cares? Get on with your life!" [Source]
  •  "It's a travesty that people have forced someone who's gay [into a position where] they have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights as someone else." [Source]
  • "I don't want to get married until all gay people can get married." Actors, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie once said the seem thing, but same to have had a change of heart. [Source] 
  • "My mom has always been a big advocate, especially in the gay, lesbian, transsexual and bisexual community, so for me it's always been a part of my soul." [Source]   
  •  "Two of my best friends are a couple, and my conversation with them is like, it's unfortunate that things take a while to progress like this, but it was a great, great victory for equality. I’m proud that New York has balls to stand up for what’s right." [Source]
  •  "I think it's a very basic human-rights issue. Everybody has the right to marry the person they love and be represented as a couple and family. ... It's something that people will look back on in years to come and say, 'I can't believe it took so long for us to recognize this.' It'll be like segregation and giving women the right to vote." [Source]
  •  "Once both gay marriage and marijuana are finally legal, those of you against them are not invited to the really fun parties I'm gonna throw." [Source]
  • "Make no mistake -- I am a Christian and I believe in God and I don’t believe He makes mistakes, so I believe that being gay is not a sin and in fact it’s how you’re made." [Source]
  •  "I believe every American should be allowed the same rights and civil liberties. Without legalized same-sex marriage, most of the time you cannot share the same health benefits, you are not considered next of kin and you are not granted the same securities as a heterosexual couple. How is this different than having someone sit in the back of the bus because of their skin color?" [Source]
  •  "For those who saw the signs of hatred as our cars drove in tonight, I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grand-children's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone." [Source]
Sean Penn
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Sean Penn

"For those who saw the signs of hatred as our cars drove in tonight, I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grand-children's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone." [Source]

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