Barack Obama Politician “I think it's about time! Who cares whether he is looking for votes or not! At least your country is moving forward with the times!” Country Moving Gay ♥ 3
Barack Obama Politician “You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are.” Gay Iraq Cheer ♥ 3
Barack Obama Politician “Who cares if it's a campaign strategy, and who are other people to say it's ridiculous? I'm not gay, but I strongly support gay marriage. What if someone told you you couldn't marry the one you love? I think it's about time! Let people who love each other that are the same sex get married. They deserve the right to be happy also.” Thinking Sex Gay ♥ 3
Barack Obama Politician “I could never be a politician. But as uncomfortable as I would be doing so, I have no problem with Obama's long-planned 'change of heart.' This dude's made huge, measurable strides for gay rights, and if being coy about his plans for gay marriage for a few years was needed to get him elected, then so be it. LGBT persons will be better off, and federal same-sex marriage recognition will come sooner because of it.” Heart Sex Gay ♥ 3
Barack Obama Politician “"Undecided," while running for re-election to state Senate in 1998, in response to an Outlines questionnaire asking, "Do you favor legalizing same-sex marriage?"” Running Sex Gay ♥ 3
Barack Obama Politician “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.” Fighting Sex Gay ♥ 3
Barack Obama Politician “I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it. We are a people who declared that we are all created equal - and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.” Country Couple Gay ♥ 3
Barack Obama Politician “Our politics at its best involves us recognizing ourselves in each other. And our politics at its worst are when we see immigrants or women or blacks or gays or Mexicans as somehow separate, apart from us.” Gay Worst Recognizing ♥ 3
Barack Obama Politician “I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.” People Thinking Gay ♥ 3
Barack Obama Politician “The Supreme Court had the choice not only which way to rule, pro- or anti-gay marriage rights, but also how they were going to rule. They could have ruled just federalism, saying, "This isn't a matter for federal; this isn't a federal issue at all. States should decide it." Or they could decide it on equal protection grounds and say that, "Gay discrimination is wrong."” Issues Rights Gay ♥ 3
Barack Obama Politician “I say that is because those are the times where sometimes you feel actually a little bit hurt. Because you feel like saying to these folks, "[Don't] you think if I could do it, I [would] have just done it. Do you think that the only problem is that I don't care enough about the plight of poor people, or gay people, or immigrants, or ...?"” Thinking Hurt Gay ♥ 3
PJ Peter James Author “Brighton has two universities. It's got a massive young, middle-class community, and the largest gay community in the UK. The result of which is a huge recreational drug market. It's the favoured place to live in the UK for first division criminals.” Two Class Gay ♥ 3
