Keiynan Lonsdale Quotes

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.

Coming out is the most political thing you can do.

I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.

There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself.

All I can really say is to encourage anybody who's in the closet to come out, and congratulate anyone who has.

I never thought in a million years I'd be involved in a project that celebrated the fullness of my identity of being queer and Asian.

If I had seen 'Pose' in the years I was a kid, it would have probably meant everything to me.

I am lucky to say now that it is not frightening for me, living in L.A., to be gay. Even when I was in Texas, I wasn't afraid. I was kind of out in high school. I just could never decide on what label. I am glad that I am public about it, and I think I should be.

'Queer as Folk' is gay gay gay gay gay.

I came out to be on television as a person, as a woman. And this can be a great thing for my community.

As a gay black man, it's important to me to show up - that I'm able to show up as my whole self, in every space that I'm in, because that's how I'm able to be the most true to who I am.

My whole life is queer.

It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.

I came out around 25 publicly.

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?

I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

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.

I watched a million coming-out videos, and that was kind of how I accepted it myself.

I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.

I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.

If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to most people, given how comfortable and how out I am being the only late-night gay talk-show host.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.