Carmen Carrera Quotes

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

My cousin is gay, in school while other kids were dissecting frog, he was opening flies.

Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.

I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it.

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.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

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.

The gay thing has always been hard for me.

I knew that I was different when I was six years old, but it wasn't until I got to about 10 or 11 that I realised I was a gay man.

Sexuality didn't come into it when I was bullied, but for so many years, being LGBTQ was one of the biggest things you would be bullied for at school. Hopefully, as time goes on, it will be a completely accepted thing that people won't have to think about.

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.

When I came out, initially, I faced some mocking. For the first 10-15 days, sometimes when I was out in public, people would shout things like 'lesbian.'

When I was young, people were so disgusted by me. Before I even knew that I was gay... everybody else had it figured out and, you know, they were letting you know.

I'm not saying that being straight is easy, but when you're gay, you don't really have a familial network or support system. You have to find that.

I knew I was gay since, like, fifth grade.

I had told one of my friends that I felt like I might be gay or that I just wasn't into girls, and I was abandoned.

Coming out as a gay man, it was very much about finding my own identity and dealing with labeling.

I actually remember being in 3rd grade and piecing together in my head that one of my guy friends was homosexual.

The idea of the gay experience, it feels like a relic. I felt like in the '90s when we were watching the gay characters on 'The Real World,' there was definitely a gay experience that was distinct from a straight experience. If you talk to high schoolers in 2017, I don't know that is as much a part of how they experience a social dynamic.