Christopher Isherwood Quotes

One funny thing I realized is how many people had no idea that I was gay because they don't bother to look it up or ask.

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

When I came out, when I was 17 years old, it was one of those things where I realized that there was going to be so many obstacles, but being gay doesn't mean being weak. And being gay doesn't mean that you are less than anybody else. It's just who you are.

I'm gay. I just didn't think it was anybody's business.

I have never been outed by anyone but myself!

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.

The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

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.

I really didn't talk about my sexuality until I wrote my autobiography.

I don't think that one thing defines me, but I know that by coming out the way that I did, sort of almost pioneering it in action sports - to take that stand - that it's always going to be a label that is stuck with me, and I know that I'll always be the 'gay skier,' and it actually doesn't bother me.

I was in the closet up until I moved to the U.S. But I was always one of those kids who couldn't really hide being gay. Some queer kids are just more straight-passing than others. I was not one of those kids.

I'm gay. Megan's my girlfriend... These aren't secrets to people who know me. I don't feel like I've not lived my life. I think people have this assumption that if you're not talking about it, you must be hiding it, like it's this secret. That was never the case for me.

A straight person doesn't have to go in the media and tell them that they're straight, and I don't think a gay person should do that, neither. But that's the society we have to live in.

I came out when I was 15 and I was a very active teenager in that regard.

It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly.

The hardest part about rollerblading is telling your parents you're gay.

I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.

I think being gay is a blessing, and it's something I am thankful for every single day.

If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.

Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.

I'm gay and always have been, even when I was David Jones.

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.

And being gay isn't so easy, either I've always said that if anyone ever thought I was straight they must need glasses - but when I finally came out and said, "Yes, I do sleep with men and I'm gay," yeah, I lost record sales. There's no question - big, big time.

To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.