Quotes About Being Gay

#1. So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.

Tim Cook

#2. I've always loved being gay. Sure, Kenya was not exactly Queer Nation but my sexuality gave me joy. I was young, not so dumb and full of cum! There was no place for me in heaven but I was content munching devil's pie here on earth.

Diriye Osman

#3. The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.

Quentin Crisp

#4. Man, if you're gay we can be friends. If you're straight, we can be friends. I'm not gay, I don't plan on being gay, I don't condone it and I'm not sayin' I'm against it.

ASAP Rocky

#5. Being gay has nothing to do with the three gold medals or the three MVPs or the four championships I've won. I'm still the same person. I'm Sheryl.

Sheryl Swoopes

#6. I have been kicked out of my home for being gay. I felt that.

Brooke Candy

#7. It was like I was being punished for being gay, and back then I didn't even know what it meant to be gay. I never dreamed of dating another guy, or about having sex with one. I was seven. I didn't even know about sex yet.

John Green

#8. In ten Muslim countries you can get the death penalty just for being gay. If they were chopping the heads off of gay people in the Vatican, wouldn't there be a greater outcry among liberals?

Bill Maher

#9. Gays being gay is wrong. Two women can't produce a baby, two men can't produce a baby, so it's not how it's supposed to be ... I don't believe in gay marriages. I don't believe in being gay.

Carl Everett

#10. I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

Jai Rodriguez

#11. The writing was so clearly written on the wall about me, but I didn't see it. I had no role models. I didn't know there was even a possibility of being gay. I battled with it, but this was the way God made me. If you have a problem with it, take it up with the man upstairs.

Bryan Batt

#12. I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch.

Billy Porter

#13. All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.

Bill Clinton

#14. There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

Dan Butler

#15. It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.

Rob James-Collier

#16. I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it.

Evan Davis

#17. Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.

Alice Dreger

#18. Compared to being caught in the wrong body, being plagued by 'dysmorphic OCD thoughts,' being gay is commonplace and mostly accepted. What once seemed unimaginable and shameful has been revealed to be perfectly normal.

Susan Estrich

#19. Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.

William J. Clinton

#20. That's part of being gay, you know. It's not just who you want in bed. It's who your emotional relationships are with the other twenty-three hours of the day, whose arms you want around you when life hands you shit.

Kaje Harper

#21. Being gay is harder than being black. I didn't have to come out black. I didn't have to tell my parents about what its like to be black.

Wanda Sykes

#22. I'm not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you. You keep it hidden, and the secret becomes you.

Alan Ball

#23. When I came out, when I was 17 years old, it was one of those things where I realized that there was going to be so many obstacles, but being gay doesn't mean being weak.

Bob Harper

#24. I don't like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with
that's the way I was raised
but I just can't see what's so wrong about being gay.

Zac Efron

#25. The only thing wrong with being gay is how some people treat you when they find out.

Robin Reardon

#26. In a lot of states LGBT people can be fired for just being gay or for just being trans. That's totally legal.

Ellen Page

#27. One of the great things about being gay and out is that the papers couldn't care less about your love life.

Graham Norton

#28. While there is no shame in being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex - or even straight (but not narrow) - there is most certainly shame and dishonor in being a homophobe, a transphobe and a bigot.

Christina Engela

#29. A girl crush is different from being gay. A girl crush is like when one girl is so into another girl that it's almost sexual, but not quite. A girl crush is way creepier than being gay, which is not at all creepy and in fact is completely awesome, in case you were wondering.

Sara Benincasa

#30. Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.

Stephen Fry

#31. Part of my motivation in the search for a cause of being gay was the need to find "something that has gone wrong that I can put right," and it was good, spiritually fruitful, to discover that the question "What went wrong in where I came from?" is actually not a useful one.

James Alison

#32. I imagined a time when being gay is as unquestioned and un-judged as is having blue eyes. Some might call it fantasy or science fiction. I'd like to think it's the future.

Missouri Vaun

#33. Give yourself permission to enjoy being gay. You do have to give yourself permission. You have been told you may not. Give yourself permission to be free.

Harry Hay

#34. Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.

Jodi Picoult

#35. There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way.

Lady Gaga

#36. Even before people knew us as Tegan and Sara, we were stared at and studied. We've been different our whole lives. It started with being twins and then being gay and then being musicians, so we've had 32 years of dealing with being fringe people.

Tegan Quin

#37. It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain.

Simon LeVay

#38. Being gay is normal; what's abnormal is having to hide who you are for fear of society.

Ben Tolosa

#39. Being gay is like taking a crash course in human nature," he says. "Your first real glimpse at the dirty underbelly of routine social interaction. A lesser person, " he offers with a wry grin, "Might well become one bitter fuck.

Jonathan Tropper

#40. Being gay is immutable. Maybe someday we'll figure out more of the science and it will be changeable, but we have no leads so far.

Andrew Solomon

#41. I'd never criticize gay people for being gay. That would be the same thing as criticizing someone for having brown eyes, as far as I'm concerned.

Virginia Mayo

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

Fabian Black

#43. I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.

Clive Barker

#44. Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where no one thought being gay was even something to ride someone about?

Bill Konigsberg

#45. My mother encouraged me and was very great about me being gay, but she always encouraged me to follow my musical dreams, which I'm very grateful for.

Elton John

#46. Geoff told me once that part of being gay is the journey to accept who you are. It's often not an easy journey, but once you make it, you're stronger and happier because of it.

Andrew Grey

#47. It's the eternal tragedy of being gay in Bombay," I lamented. "Never a place to yourself." With city rents so high, most sons lived with their parents until marriage - and usually well after as well.

Manil Suri

#48. All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.

Harvey Milk

#49. The boys quiet until Ben looks across the table at Chon, holds his thumb and index finger a millimeter apart, and says, "We're that close to being gay."
They laugh for half an hour.
Collective dicks

Don Winslow

#50. But you are also the biggest threat of all ... You are a gay person I like. Your threat is that you make being gay seem non-threatening. It's almost as if your happiness does not take mine away.

Stephen Colbert

#51. All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don't believe it. I don't believe it for one minute. He hasn't been to one of my shows.

Bette Midler

#52. I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.

Barney Frank

#53. So, Carter, if you need to talk about anything, you know, about being gay. If there are things that you don't understand or things that confuse you, you can ask me. Anything. You can ask me anything."
Carter studied him for a moment and asked. "Who's your cell provider?

Marshall Thornton

#54. My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

Armistead Maupin

#55. A number of Guru's feel that there is something wrong or sick about being gay. I think it really doesn't matter what your sexual preference is; what matters is the quality of your love.

Frederick Lenz

#56. It's kind of a shame that it's even an issue. Not being gay, I can't fully appreciate how complicated that is. In the article, the interviewer asked me, and I said that if I were, I would just say it.

Scott Wolf

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

Maurice Sendak

#58. For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Don Miguel Ruiz

#59. We had the fun of being outlaws. But there's a whole generation now coming up with new gender identities. For this generation of kids who don't think that being gay is anything special, they might be more interesting than any of us.

Dale Peck

#60. When William came to Kyle's aid, he told them that there's nothing wrong with being gay, and that his Uncle Jerry is gay, and that the boys should just-" Lenore smiled a little. "uh... 'cowboy up'.

D.W. Marchwell

#61. Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.

Kara Swisher

#62. It's not called being gay, it's called being fabulous!

PewDiePie

#63. Warren and his boyfriend had put on a Thanksgiving dinner for their friends who didn't have families to go home to. Being gay meant they had a number of friends with no welcoming families. Mary

Patricia Briggs

#64. Being gay wasn't his complete identity, but it felt like an important part of himself. And he wanted to be the one to control who knew.

Ravon Silvius

#65. I'm not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing.

George Clooney

#66. When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of that sort, that a gene for anything may not have been a gene for that thing under different environmental conditions.

Richard Dawkins

#67. The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.

Mia Kirshner

#68. I think the best part of being gay is when you're done [with sex], you could turn over and talk about football.

Andrew Dice Clay

#69. The assumption that being gay or black necessarily harms the self-worth of all who fit this category has a patronizing dimension, because it neglects consideration of the agency that persons exercise in respect of imposed identity.

Michael Kenny

#70. I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay.

John Boyne

#71. Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.

Lady Gaga

#72. Being gay is not an excuse for being a dick.

John Green

#73. I think as a writer, it's important to show the other part of being gay, not only the sex part.

Luis Negron

#74. I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I don't think being gay is a sin. Period.

Kristin Chenoweth

#75. And being gay isn't so easy, either I've always said that if anyone ever thought I was straight they must need glasses - but when I finally came out and said, "Yes, I do sleep with men and I'm gay," yeah, I lost record sales. There's no question - big, big time.

Boy George

#76. My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

Jai Rodriguez

#77. Start as a human being in this culture, toss in madness, toss in mystical states, toss in being gay, toss in being HIV-positive, toss in religion that assures you God hates you for all of that - and then look me in the eye and tell me you can feel ok about yourself. I dare you. I just dare you.

Ken Wilber

#78. And if any of you has a problem with any of it, then it's *your* problem. Being gay is hard enough without having to worry about your family being weird about it.

A.S. King

#79. Because I hate that word. Like being gay is something to be ashamed of. Like because Mer likes sports, it automatically makes her a lesbian. That insult doesn't even make sense.

Stephanie Perkins

#80. 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.

Richard Rodriguez

#81. People are realizing that being gay is just as defining as the color of our skin and it's not a choice. I'm really encouraged. I think in my lifetime we will achieve equality. I'm honored to be a part of it.

Leslie Jordan

#82. The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay. The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young.

George Takei

#83. I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

Mark Haddon

#84. To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.

Bruce Vilanch

#85. Chadham's idea of an open-minded, modern town had no room for faggots. Being gay made you about as welcome as a turd in the swimming pool.
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Huston Piner

#86. I think Justin Timberlake verges on being gay, he gets gay airplay. Britney gets loads as well. If you're male and you're black you're not going to get much play in a gay club.

Andy Bell

#87. Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.

James McGreevey

#88. 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

#89. I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

Quentin Crisp

#90. My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate analogy is left-handedness, which also, as it happens, used to be regarded as some sort of defect in a normatively right-handed humanity.

James Alison

#91. My being gay is not a social issue; it's a fact. It's not something to be debated. It's a reality.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#92. Being gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve.

Patricia Cornwell

#93. I love being gay. I love gay people. I think we're better than other people. I really do. I think we're smarter and more talented and more aware. I do, I totally do. I really do think all of these things. And I try very hard to remember all this.

Larry Kramer

#94. Membership of a larger group is not an identity. Being Asian is not an identity. Being gay is not an identity. Being deaf, blind, or wheelchair-bound is not an identity, nor is being economically deprived.

Lionel Shriver

#95. If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing.

Douglas Rushkoff

#96. Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: It disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth century.

Nick Hornby

#97. I don't keep it secret that I live with my partner Gio. I'm very proud of my gayness. But there is lots I wouldn't want the press to write about me ... it is a matter of regret that being gay is the most interesting thing about me.

Evan Davis

#98. He offered to make-out with Hunter if it would prove that he's ok with me being gay."
"Hmm," said Adam. "Yeah I think I need to see proof."
"Shut up."
"Tell him it has to be shirtless. Wait, let me get my phone out-

Brigid Kemmerer

#99. 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

#100. 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