Susan Estrich Quotes

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.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

I posed for a gay magazine, which caused much comment. But it doesn't bother me. Gay people are fighting the same kind of stereotyping that bodybuilders are: People have certain misconceptions about them just as they do about us.

When you're a young kid and you're gay, you're out there on your own. And you're trying to figure this thing out. And your parents typically aren't gay.

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 have to be careful, as I don't want to offend Midlanders, but growing up, it wasn't like growing up in London. Anything you were interested in, you'd be able to find someone also interested in it. In the Midlands, nobody came out as gay at my school at all.

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

Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

I came out when I was 17 - coming out in middle or high school is one of the most difficult things that anyone could experience. I wouldn't wish it on my enemies.

I don't think anyone wants to be gay.

Gay rights and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about.

As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.

I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.

On 'Glee,' we often tackle the tough topics that young people face - in fact, my recurring character, Wade 'Unique' Adams, is a transgender teenager who finds herself navigating a lot of the same problems many young people face around the globe.

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

I know growing up as a young gay person how much you hate yourself, how much you already think you're different.

When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.

I wanted so badly to be straight like my friends. But I couldn't change it any more than I could change having brown eyes. And I knew I would never fit into what kids thought was normal.

When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very small circle knew where I really worked.

I used to hate myself for being gay. I couldn't come to terms with it.

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

I think being a teenager is a difficult journey in and of itself, but being transgender makes it that much harder.

I think it can be difficult for young lesbian or young gay, bisexual, transgender to come out and be open with who they are because there's such a huge stigma attached to that preference of their sexuality.

Not everybody comes out when they're in their twenties, you know?