Mark Takano Quotes

I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.

Coming out is the most political thing you can do.

I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have love in your life, you can be a contributing member of society and you can be respected - I think that's it.

Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.

I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.

Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.

All I can really say is to encourage anybody who's in the closet to come out, and congratulate anyone who has.

If you happen to be in an environment where people are not accepting of who you are, you just need to know that's not always the way it will be.

The process of coming out was critical to getting where we are today: coming out to our friends, our family, our co-workers, God forbid, to our clients.

I want lesbians to be inspired and to feel comfortable with who they are and walk boldly in that.

If I had seen 'Pose' in the years I was a kid, it would have probably meant everything to me.

If one less kid can grow up without hiding who they are along the way or having to believe that who they love is something that will make them lonely, then everything I went through will be worth it.

The most moving responses I got to my coming out in the first place was people, like teenagers, letting me know that it made their lives easier in some way.

It means so much to me to see Caitlyn Jenner coming out, just by being her authentic self, staying true to who she is, and just living her life.

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back.

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.

I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.

Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.

Nowadays, if somebody in America is feeling alone and wants to find a coming out story, they just search 'coming out,' and they'll find millions of first-person examples of people telling their story.

I'm a gay black guy. If I can't ask questions without caring what people think of me, who can?

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

I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.

If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done.

I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way.