Boy George Quotes

When your doctor and neighbours and child's schoolteachers know you are gay, there is no closet for you to hide in.

Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because you might as well have called him a warlock. Nobody knew what gay was.

I think it's always good for gay people to come out, but it's also understandable why people might choose not to do so.

I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!

I'm gay, and I was born this way.

'Milk' doesn't imply that all gay men who stayed in the closet were cowards.

It's great when people have the confidence to discuss their sexuality if it works for them. I can't fault someone for not coming out, because I don't know their journey, what scares them, what's at stake, or how it will affect their personal life or family.

I am an openly proud gay man.

Coming out as a gay man, it was very much about finding my own identity and dealing with labeling.

Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.

If I was gay, I would be the best gay of all history.

I'm gay. It's pretty unfortunate.

If a rumor comes out that I'm gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying.

I had to smile when stories emerged questioning whether I was gay. Obviously I knew I wasn't but people were curiously desperate to suggest I was ... when you know a gay guy has a crush on you, it's the most flattering thing.

Most of my favorite people in my life are gay. It's something I'm super passionate about, because whenever I would see my friends get bullied, or my brother get hurt for his sexuality, I would become a raging lunatic.

John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.

When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.

I've been bisexual for as long as I can remember. I remember being made fun of in junior high for that. It was something that was shameful, and it really shouldn't be.

I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.

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.

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

I've been openly gay since I can remember.

I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable.

I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.