I'm on the younger end of Gen X, and for me, growing up gay was not cool.
If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.
Being 'out and proud' can feel like a real luxury of Western culture, where people are often white and see existing white gay people in their culture. That's a kind of privilege people don't know they possess.
I was homophobic because I obviously didn't know that I was gay.
I never had a moral problem with being gay.
Knowing you're gay, as a kid in the '80s, is a very scary thing.
Unless you're of a certain age, you may not know my name, but you can Google it - I was a pretty big movie star in the 1950s. Oh, and another thing: I was - am - gay.
Eight times a week, I got to be a gay man, a remarkable gay man, and every night, that felt as full, as true, as passionate, and as authentic as I ever felt in my life.
I'm not only in touch with my feminine side, I'm in touch with my gay side as well.
Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.
If I were gay, you know. I think Woody Allen is one of a long list of men I might go gay for.
I'm not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off the homophobes.
I was insecure and ashamed. Unless you're gay, being gay has never been looked at as being cool. And I wanted to be cool.
Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
I don't like labels, but if you have to put a label on it, I'm a gay man.
I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.
I've been openly gay since I can remember.
To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.
I just want to be clear before we decide to do this together: I'm gay. My music is gay. My show is gay. And I love that it's gay. And I love my gay fans, and they're all going to be coming to our show. And it's going to remain gay.
I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.
First and foremost, I'm an athlete. And I'm an Olympian. I'm not a gay Olympian. I'm just an Olympian that's also gay. I don't mind reading that - like, 'gay Olympian Adam Rippon.' It's fine. I hope that, in a way, it makes it easier for other young kids who are gay. If they go to the Olympics, they can just be called Olympians.
A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
You can't just go gay, its not like buying a ladder.
For the record, I am gay.
I was fat and ugly and never 'wanted to hook up - for a gay guy that's unheard of. I was like a monk or a priest.
