Gore Vidal Quotes

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

In many cases, it's a choice. There are many, many human beings through history - millions and millions and millions - who have been both homosexual at times in their lives and then heterosexual, or vice-versa, or bisexual. How can it be a biological imperative if people can change?

Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human things.

To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.

From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

Sexuality is a topic that has huge shifts in -society. Attitudes toward different sexualities change, but the actual sexuality of a human being is something that's consistent, and it's consistently interesting, and so people write about it.

Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.

Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.

There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people still don't understand it. It's not just black and white, you know?

People have always said, are you gay? I've had a lot of that. But it's just not in me. I really like women a lot; I'm repulsed by men sexually.

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.

I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.

I guess if I had to classify myself, I'd say I'm straight.

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.

What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives.

There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals.

I think everybody's always attracted to both sexes. I mean, I think that women are very attractive. I've kissed girls, but everybody experiments. It's part of growing up.

Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.