Olly Alexander Quotes

Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.

Lots of women don't realize that they're gay until they're grown up.

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

I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

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.

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

Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.

Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.

Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.

My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay.

I was homophobic because I obviously didn't know that I was gay.

I thought about being gay, but it didn't fit.

For some reason, I was deeply ashamed of the theater early on. I think it had to do with this growing sense I was gay, although I couldn't have put a word to it back then.

What love life? I'm not gay, but I might as well be.

I discovered that I was gay when I was about nine or ten. I did go out with girls for a while, but it didn't last.

I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.

I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.'

I am not gay.

I've been openly gay since I can remember.

I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.

I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.

I consider myself gay because at the end of the night, that's who I want to cuddle with. But when I go out, I go to straight clubs.

As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.