Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

You don’t have to be straight to shoot straight.

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

Sexuality shouldn't define anyone. It doesn't define me. Love should be at the core of what you do.

Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.

Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

Whoopie doo guys, yes, I've dated girls and I've dated boys - get over it.

I haven't had anyone say, 'No, we can't because he's gay.' In fact, it's been quite the opposite.

I've gone to normal clubs, straight clubs, and I've gone to gay clubs to party with my friends and fans. There's no difference. I have nothing to prove. I'm very comfortable in my own skin, and I'm thankful to have as many close gay friends as I have, people who have been so supportive in my life and have always been there for me.

I had a tremendous amount of gay friends, so my whole life was basically like that... I never noticed who was gay or who was straight.

You don't walk like other boys. You don't talk like other boys. But at six, you are not thinking about your sexuality.

Queering don't make the world work.

In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it.

Yeah, it shouldn't be an issue. Stories about women, about men, about homosexuals, about heterosexuals. We shouldn't point at what it is.

Now that we're seeing that you can be a really masculine football player and a homosexual, you can be a really girly boy who likes to dress in women's clothes, I think that it's just been adding to the whole discussion about homosexuality and society.

I think it's important to show in the 21st century that if you're gay, lesbian, trans, whatever, that you should feel just as welcome to be a wrestling fan as anyone else. You're welcome in the space.

Gay, straight, bi, whatever - it doesn't matter. Love is love.

I think people are slowly realizing that don't have to be looking in a mirror to enjoy something. And they're realizing that watching a show with drag queens in it doesn't make you gay any more then listening to rap makes you black.

I've always been conscious not to take advantage of my sexual orientation because I don't think it's fair, and it shouldn't matter.

One of my best friends growing up was gay. ... It’s never been an issue for me. ... I think there was a time in my life, probably in college, that I wished every guy was gay, because it just meant more women for me! ‘I don’t know why you guys have a problem with this thing! I think it’d be great! I wish everyone was gay!’ ... That’s always the way I thought about it. ... I have no issue with it. If I have to suffer through marriage, why shouldn’t they?

I love gay people. Or as I sometimes call them, 'people.'

Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.

I'm gay. It's pretty unfortunate.

If I was gay, there’d be no closet. You’d never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve! Because I know, with all certainty in my mind, there’s nothing wrong with being gay and you know it! And there’s nothing wrong with being into chicks if you’re a girl. And there’s nothing wrong with being into all of it…. How awesome would it be to be bisexual? To just walk into a room and go ‘MMMM, ALRIGHT!!!!’

I have no problem doing gay stuff, I really don't care.

I don't label myself one way or another. I love who I love; it's the person that matters.