Quotes About Coming Out Of The Closet

#1. 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

#2. As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.

Lance Loud

#3. My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the closet' moment.

Sue Townsend

#4. I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and things like that is that it almost seems like Russian Roulette when you're coming out of the closet to your parents.

Jason Ritter

#5. I realize it's a cliche, almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.

BD Wong

#6. What's become more important to me over time is to not try to sell myself as someone that I'm not, and that begins with coming out of the closet and gradually it's a challenge to expand that into other areas of my life.

Christopher Rice

#7. I know what it's like to be in the closet! I know what it's like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them ... so, I'm coming out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope.

Jason Alexander

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

Oprah Winfrey

#9. Long story short, ghosts just coming out of the closet sucked at communication. Probably as bad as a beginner ghost whisperer sucked at getting them to communicate.

C.C. Hunter

#10. Is this what they mean when they talk about coming out of the closet?" Zane

Abigail Roux

#11. I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.

Jamie Farr

#12. People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but (are now) more willing to accept the concept of aliens and other life forms. There's just a slew of stuff out there right now. It's been people's closet belief system, and now it's coming out of the closet.

Gillian Anderson

#13. Dude, the whole Drake
coming out of the closet routine is getting old. Get some new material. ~ Drake

Jennifer Turner

#14. Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.

Anthony Venn-Brown

#15. I don't know how people do this. How Blue did this. Two words. Two freaking words, and I'm not the same Simon anymore.

Becky Albertalli

#16. I'm assuming you didn't just call me to come out of the closet to a blind woman'

'Oh, it's something I do everyday,' Kate said, enjoying Faith's sense of humor. 'I open up a phone book, randomly select a name, dial it, and when they answer, I proclaim I'm a lesbian and then hang up.

Laurie Salzler

#17. Every single courageous act of coming out chips away at the curse of homophobia. Most importantly it's destroyed within yourself, and that act creates the potential for its destruction where it exists in friends, family and society.

Anthony Venn-Brown

#18. You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's hidden all his life - which is hypocritical as hell after your ten years in Tirimo.

N.K. Jemisin

#19. I confronted her about it a few times, but she always denies it. She's so far inside the closet, Lana, she might as well be halfway to Narnia. My sister has some serious issues with coming out.

L. H. Cosway

#20. If you possess enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find you are not alone.

Richard Wright

#21. The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard. An increase of secret prayer with ministers will be the sure harbinger of blessing.

Andy Murray

#22. 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

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

Harvey Milk

#24. The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent.

Christopher Hitchens

#25. There are many of us now. Enough to be called a people in ourselves and not merely a mistake.

N.K. Jemisin

#26. The one undeniable benefit of having spent some time in the closet is that it nurtures a talent that you can fall back on any time: lying convincingly. Sometimes I worried that queer kids in the twenty-first century coming out at twelve, or even younger, would never develop that valuable skill.

Bob Smith

#27. The closet does have a benefit. It provides safety. Which at times is important. But remember, as long as you are in there, two other things will be too. Fear and shame.

Anthony Venn-Brown

#28. 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

#29. Denying what you are didn't keep people from knowing what you are."

"And flaunting it isn't what saved you."

Ykka takes a deep breath. The muscles in her jaw flex, relax. "And that would be why I asked you do this, Cutter. But let's move on."

So it goes on.

N.K. Jemisin

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

David Levithan