Michael Cunningham Quotes

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.

But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.

Straight men need to be emasculated.... Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once.

Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

I'm not a lesbian. I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.

As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?

I'm a straight guy and I date women, but I get on really well with gay guys. I'm very comfortable with my sexuality. The weirdest thing for me is when straight guys get really freaked out by gay guys. It's almost like they're insecure in their own sexuality. For me, I can be in a room full of gay men and have fun.

I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight.

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!

There is a history of gay people pretending to be straight. I want to balance the sides. I'm a straight person pretending to be gay. I've had a lot of people to imitate. It's easy when you're British; we're camp by nature, anyway.

In Turkey, Egypt and the Maghreb, men who are ‘active’ in sexual relations with other men are not considered homosexual; the sexual domination of other men even confers a status of hyper-masculinity.

Homosexuality is a genetic flaw.

Gay men are still men.

Gay people are made and not born.