Andrew Solomon Quotes

I don't think I'm gay. I don't think I'm straight. I think I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

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

I grew up around gay people my entire life, basically, that’s possibly why I’m quite camp, and some people think I’m gay when I meet them, which I think is awesome. It’s always good to keep them guessing.

Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is our own creation, and much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatality; it's a possibility for creative life. It's not enough to affirm that we are gay but we must also create a gay life.

Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.

If there ever has been any confusion about my sexuality, then you are someone that doesn't even know me!

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really.

When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.

I'm a bit of a slag... Some people don't think it's very nice, but I don't care... I've got hormones, and sex is there, so why not? Sex is good. Everybody does it, and everybody should!

Human sexuality is not always about being labeled. It's about having a human moment, an emotion.

The urge to push the concept of sex and sexuality into the fringes of the human experience is so bizarre to me.

People from pre-sexual revolution and even from the 60s and the birth of the gay movement still define gay as two men or two women having sex. Our generation defines it from a more emotional standpoint. To be gay means you are drawn to the same sex. But it's a part of who you are, an identity, not an act.

Like a lot of women, I'm bisexual. Once I have sex with you - bye!

I didn't really know what I was until I came to America and I had sex [for the first time] in San Francisco in 1970. It was with someone of my own sex.

All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.

I'm very gay, but I love women. I'm not attracted to men in any way. ... But yes I am gay, I'm so happy. I'm a gay, heterosexual male. ... I got major love for the gay and lesbian community, and I just want to push less separation.

I am not gay. I never have been gay.

I think my friend Jeff is gay. I don't know - I'm so bad with names.

If you can't remember the last time you had sex with a woman, you're either gay, or married.

I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.

I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system; tones you up.

As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny.

I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay is the last adjective I would use to describe myself. The idea of being gay, like a little sparkler, never occurs to me. So if you ask me if I'm gay, I say no.