Charles M. Blow Quotes

I know that, as a bisexual, sometimes people who are gay or lesbian look down upon the bisexual community as well and assume that people who are bisexual just don't know what they want or are just playing both sides of the fence, and that's not the case, either.

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!

Learning that someone is gay, queer, trans, doesn't tell you much by itself. They could be any kind of person aside from that particular slice of identity.

I actually don't label myself, but... Some people call me queer; some people call me bisexual, whatever it is now. I'm happy with all of it 'cause it all sort of represents me, in a way. I spent a majority of my life in the closet.

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.

In 'The L Word' heterosexuals playfully remark to one another on which members of the same sex they find hot and sometimes dally accordingly; lesbians pick up men if they want to; one of the women is bisexual; and, as in life, gay people and straight people go to the same parties, live in the same neighborhoods and are even related to one another.

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

I live in New York and I love hanging out in gay clubs, and a lot of my friends are gay. But, for better or for worse, I'm not gay.

I know a lot of gay males who I work with that are fantastic people and I love hanging out with them. But because I hang out and bring gay men into my life, does that mean that I'm gay? I promise you that I very much love women.

Frankly, no one had ever asked me before. My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about.

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.

Gay people are more powerful when they work with lesbians. We become more powerful when we're L, G, B and T.

I knew that I was different when I was six years old, but it wasn't until I got to about 10 or 11 that I realised I was a gay man.

I identify as queer. I just don't know what any of these labels mean.

I was born gay, OK? I've always known. I don't think my family were the least bit surprised.

A lot of people told me I should be quiet about being bisexual and not say anything, but for me this is a part of my identity.

There is no universal gay experience. All stories are relevant, and all stories are needed.

I want to show people out there that there's such a huge spectrum of people within the queer and Asian community.

I'm very, very lucky - when I realised I was sexually attracted to females there wasn't a struggle where I found that hard to accept.

It's really great to see the queer landscape really change to include everybody and make the rest of the world understand that we're not just one or two things. There's so much about the queer community that needs to be represented.

I don't like labels, but if you have to put a label on it, I'm a gay man.

I identify as a gay man all the time, but I also like to identify as queer.

I've identified as bisexual since I was a teenager, and if we want to achieve equality for all in our policies, we need more voices from the LGBTQ community in Congress.

A person's sexuality is so much more than one word "gay." No one refers to anyone as just "hetero" because that doesn't say anything. Sexual identity is broader than a label.

I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay, it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have.