Gay Closet Quotes

#1. The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

Judith Light

#2. I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

Alan Cumming

#3. It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

Thom Gunn

#4. I think dragging someone out of the closet who isn't necessarily engaged in anti-gay activities can have a destructive effect on them and on us. I don't want unwilling gay people advocating on my behalf; I think that's a challenge.

Christopher Rice

#5. I think that sometimes the whole larger-than-life gay thing is just another kind of closet. It's easier to be different if you're very different, if you go all-out on purpose. Because that way you can still hide who you really are.

Lili Wilkinson

#6. Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted.

Kitty Kelley

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

Dolly Parton

#8. I don't get it, if there was a closet full of gay guys, then why would any of them want to "come out of the closet?

Chris Crocker

#9. I think the gay community, as a whole, is slighted by high-profile figures who remain in the closet. But I think that a lot of times we need to ask ourselves what that person's role in our community would be if they were out of the closet.

Christopher Rice

#10. If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

Harvey Milk

#11. Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

Boy George

#12. I'd like to make it clear from the start that I am gay, gay,
gay. Like, when I come out of the closet, I'm usually wearing
my sister's prom dress kind of gay.

Gwen Hayes

#13. I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.

Oprah Winfrey

#14. It is astonishingly satisfying to look at him and think Closet Case, and know he can read my mind as he looks away flushed. All Mormons are gay, I believe. Rick is merely a further example.

Augusten Burroughs

#15. The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.

John Shelby Spong

#16. I formulated a theory about him being a closet fundamentalist with a deep-seated guilt about being gay.

Fabian Black

#17. You can't pray away the gay, but you can torture a conflicted closet-case to death.

Dan Savage

#18. At Chadham High, the safest place to be gay was in the closet.

Huston Piner

#19. Mary Martin was Broadway's biggest closet king. Everyone thought Ethel (Merman) was butch and maybe a lesbian, but she wasn't. And everyone thought that lovely little Mary was Miss Femme, and she was
except next to her gay husband. In other words, don't judge a star by her cover.

Bob Fosse

#20. I think I started out okay but with AIDS came a great deal of silence about gayness and this period of lose and morning, but at the same time a kind of feeling like you wanted to get back into the closet because being gay was such a terrible thing at that point.

Margaret Cho

#21. Any man who isn't married by thirty-five is either gay or he's got skeletons in his closet.

Lisa Renee Jones

#22. You're gay," wash stated.
Rhodes nodded, a short jerk of his head, dropping his gaze to his beer.
"As in, you-like-men gay."
Still eying his beer, Rhodes gave an affirmative shrug.
"As in, you like-to-fuck-men gay."
"Yes!

Katie Allen

#23. She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?

Patricia Highsmith

#24. Everyone knows if a Republican comes out of the closet and sees a gay shadow, it means six more years of a Democratic administration.

Jon Stewart

#25. I had to face the fact that I had been using my gay friends as props. They were always supposed to be funny and entertain me and praise me and listen to my problems, and their life was supposed to be a secret that no one wanted to hear about. I wanted them to stay in the half closet.

Tina Fey

#26. Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office.

Richard Dawkins

#27. Forget 'pray the gay away.' I you're more turned on by an AR-15 than a pair of tits, time for some serious therapy. Time for all you gun-humpers to come out of the closet. Is this really about the 2nd Amendment and self-defense
or just a pathetic fetish for guys with tiny pee-pees?

Quentin R. Bufogle

#28. When I see young men and old women come out of the closet and face being called faggots and dykes and pariahs and betrayers of the family dream, then I am honored to be gay because I belong to a people who are proud.

Arnie Kantrowitz

#29. Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

Harvey Milk

#30. It's Miranda who speaks up. "You're gay," she says, with complete seriousness. "And I love you.

David Levithan

#31. Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn't get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he's the sheriff; now he's running around writing everybody a ticket!

Alec Baldwin

#32. The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.

Rachel Maddow

#33. I was raised in a household where being gay was like, the most normal thing. My brother is gay, all of my best friends are gay. When my brother came out of the closet, it wasn't a big deal for my family.

Ariana Grande

#34. But thats their image of us so we stay tense, holding our breath, hoping we wont be found out. - about being gay from the film Love My Life

Ebine Yamaji

#35. It was the first time I'd ever considered that gay might not just be about whom we slept with but a kind of sensibility, what survived of feeling after all the fears and evasions of the closet.

Paul Monette

#36. I was a closet straight. I think I wanted to be gay because I thought it was arty and interesting. And also, I was phenomenally shy with girls.

Rupert Graves

#37. The most important political step that any gay man or lesbian can take is to come out of the closet. It's been proven that it is easier to hate us and to fear us if you can't see us.

Amanda Bearse

#38. If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve ... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.

Henry Rollins