Quotes About Being Openly Gay

#1. If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.

Max Von Essen

#2. In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight.

Lance Loud

#3. They all nodded and he saw five pairs of knees tighten beneath their robes.

J.K. Rowling

#4. For some reason, President Obama is being heckled about "don't ask, don't tell," which may be revoked. The president wants gays to be allowed to serve openly in the military.

Bill O'Reilly

#5. It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. I started in the era when Hollywood reveled in being the most cost-inefficient industry on the planet. They used to commission a hundred scripts for every one they made.

Richard Greenberg

#7. I think that there is a lot of power in a gay guy having a really (hopefully) successful music career while just being completely openly gay and honest and happy.

Troye Sivan

#8. I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.

Tony Abbott

#9. As someone who is both an ethnic minority and openly gay, I often talk about how simply being who I am has given me a double awareness of the vulnerability that some Americans may be facing.

Mark Takano

#10. That film 'Memento' creeped me out. I was looking over my back through the whole thing. I get more creeped out than scared and spill popcorn all over the place.

Brendan Sexton III

#11. I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.

Jemima Kirke

#12. [O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

Richard Baxter

#13. Barriers were being torn down. Where Freddie Mercury was trying to keep his homosexuality from the front pages, Boy George was openly & outrageously gay.

Pete Townshend