Joel Grey Quotes

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

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

My life's not about being gay - although one could argue I'm pretty professionally gay - but that's not how I experience life. Being gay is a profound part of who I am, but it isn't all of who I am.

I'm a gay man and a proud gay man and a loud gay man.

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've been openly gay since I can remember.

I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian.

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

I'm a gay man of colour.

I'm an artist who happens to be gay.

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.

I am an openly proud gay man.

I'm an interior designer who happens to be gay.

Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It's easier for me to flirt with girls now that girls know that I'm gay. It almost makes it a sexier encounter than if I was trying to pretend that I was straight.

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

I was born gay, just as I was born black.

The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.

I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.

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

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

I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.

I'm grateful to the LGBTQ community for giving me the courage to write music about who I am and not just about my sexual orientation.

I try to treat my orientation the same way I would if I was straight, which is to talk about it when it's relevant.

My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.

In terms of my work, I've never been reticent in terms of defining my sexuality. I write about my life.