A. J. McLean Quotes

I can spot a homosexual at forty paces.

I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.

A lot of people thought I was gay.

Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or any gay person doing any gay thing, that was an insufficient display of pride. You were suffering from internalized homophobia. As opposed to external homophobia.

Am I proud of being straight? No. You know why? Because if I start acting proud, that's going to make me seem kind of gay.

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.

Everybody always thinks I'm a lesbian because I'm a very tough broad. I have a lot of lesbian fans.

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho.

I don't think any gay dude is gangsta, period.

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.

We do not have any homosexuals in Iran.

It doesn't bother me or Curtis being questioned about our sexuality and it probably happens more because we're dancers. That stereotype is disappearing, but people always made ignorant, short-sighted comments when we were growing up.

If you took one of these One Direction kids, because they basically are kids, my guess is one of them is gay.

People have to stop saying that just because someone is an anti-gay activist they might be gay. They're DEFINITELY GAY!!

One time I was doing an interview for a gay magazine and halfway through the journalist found out I wasn't gay. He said, 'Sorry, I can't continue the interview.' Because they only had gay public figures in their magazine. I felt so crestfallen. I wanted to tell him: but I play fundraisers for gay marriage! I'd rather my kids were gay than straight!'

I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated all my homosexual patients are quite sick - to which I finally replied so are all my heterosexual patients.

All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.

My whole family thinks I'm gay, I guess it's always been that way. Maybe it's 'cause of the way that I walk, Makes them think I like... boys.

Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.

In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.

Your working assumption, when you meet a homophobe, should be that they are gay.

I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay is the last adjective I would use to describe myself. The idea of being gay, like a little sparkler, never occurs to me. So if you ask me if I'm gay, I say no.

If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.

This is a team of gay dudes, isn't it?" What gave it away? The pink shirts, or half our team drooling over you?