BD Wong Quotes

Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.

My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto.

I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

A lot of people thought I was gay.

Experiences with friends or family members coming out have helped millions of Americans to see past stereotypes and better understand what being gay is - and is not.

I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.

I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.

When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.

I came out to my mom at the age of 14. She didn't understand it at first, but she's been very supportive since.

Having two boys of my own who I love more than I'll ever love myself, I can't tell you how crushing it would be if they couldn't feel that they could tell their father that they were gay - or different in any way.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

I'm not saying that being straight is easy, but when you're gay, you don't really have a familial network or support system. You have to find that.

I knew from a very, very early age that I was gay, although in the social environment in Venezuela, you don't ever let that be known.

When you're coming out, you have to deal with the whole world saying 'Oh! You're an abominable snowman'.

She, uh, came out of the closet recently, my niece. Um... She announced to the family that she's a lesbian and... She's seven, did I mention that? And, uh, I don't even know if she knows what a lesbian is, but I support her completely. And, uh... I'll tell you what's heartbreaking. My sister punished her for it. Can you believe that? No pussy for a week. Which to us may not sound like... But when you're seven, you know, a week is a long time.

A lot of people think that telling people you're gay is something someone might say just to get attention.

Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because you might as well have called him a warlock. Nobody knew what gay was.

When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.

My dream is to have a gay son.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

My being gay was something of not great interest to me.

My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

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 had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!