James McGreevey Quotes

I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.

Being gay, you're kind of forced to ask, I suppose, very existential questions from a very, very early age. Your identity becomes so important to you because you're trying to understand it, and, I think, from the age of, like, 9, you're being forced to ask questions... that other kids maybe don't have to ask.

When you're a young kid and you're gay, you're out there on your own. And you're trying to figure this thing out. And your parents typically aren't gay.

I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.

Drag was like 'Alice in Wonderland,' where she fell into the hole and her world changed. I fell into a gay bar, and my entire world changed.

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.

I watched a million coming-out videos, and that was kind of how I accepted it myself.

Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.

I'm gay, and I was born this way.

I didn't know what gay was until I lived in New York for 10 years. You know, I was just underexposed in that regard.

There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'

I'm gay.

I didn't quite fit in in any particular, specific way. I was a gay teenager who was into drama.

I'm not ashamed to be gay.

I'm a gay man and a proud gay man and a loud gay man.

Any gay man in America redeals a deck at some point.

As many of you know, my story begins where most people's in the LGBT+ community begins... with fear. I knew I was different from my peers, my friends, and those around me when I started to discover who I was and who I identified as from a young age.

Everyone's journey as a gay man or woman is different; it's personal.

In high school, I came out to my friends as queer. My entire world opened up; this was a monumental step toward unveiling my truest self. I had my first girlfriend when I was sixteen years old.

Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It's easier for me to flirt with girls now that girls know that I'm gay. It almost makes it a sexier encounter than if I was trying to pretend that I was straight.

I came out around 25 publicly.

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.