Samuel R. Delany Quotes

I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.

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

I'm a gay man of colour.

I'm not a gay rights activist.

I've been openly gay since I can remember.

The perspective that I come from when I sing, when I perform, is of who I am as a black gay man.

I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't.

As someone who is both an ethnic minority and openly gay, I often talk about how simply being who I am has given me a double awareness of the vulnerability that some Americans may be facing.

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

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.

Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!

If I hadn't been born a woman, I would have certainly been gay.

My son wasn't gay. No way.

I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight.

I don't think anyone wants to be gay.

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

I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective, as a playable thing. Maybe it's an element of the character, but it just describes a preference.

My being gay is not a social issue; it's a fact. It's not something to be debated. It's a reality.

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.

It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior.

First of all, I'm not gay. Second of all, it shouldn't make a difference if I was or if I wasn't.

I've always been Sarah. My gender identity has always existed. I've always been a woman. Gay people aren't straight before they come out as gay, and transgender people are who they are before they come out and transition.

I'm gay.

If there was an Oppression Olympics, I would win the gold medal. I'm Palestinian, Muslim, I'm female, I'm disabled, and I live in New Jersey.