Andrew Haigh Quotes

As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.

Southern black gay and bi men are suffering from a self-esteem issue.

For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.

The gay male is always going to be at the bottom.

In my work with young Jewish adults in the gay community, I hear their stories of discrimination, of struggling for acceptance, of feeling invisible not for what they have done but simply for who they are.

I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

I'm a gay man, living an out life for a long time, and it's tiring and anger-making to hear people continue to spit out the same old dreary cliches about the fact that gay men are doing something unnatural, and there'll be a price to pay when the Rapture happens.

For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.

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

Growing up as a gay boy in West Texas, I definitely felt like a bit of an outcast sometimes - that there was a world that I would never be a part of.

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.

What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.

[A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I wanted to write a near future book about AIDS concentration camps. They were vehement in their response: they thought it was a terrible idea. Their words both shocked and saddened me. "Do you really want to write a book about homosexuals?" they asked me. "Won't people who read your work be influenced toward sin?" I notice that I don't hear from them much lately.

Gays seem to be at the bottom of the pecking order: no matter how far down the pecking order another group is, its members still feel superior to and have no problem picking on gays.

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

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

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.

These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.

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

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.

No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.