Susan Estrich Quotes

The gay thing has always been hard for me.

I married Stephen Gately off to so many people because Stephen didn't want anyone to know he was gay at the start. He was dreading all of his life that this was going to ruin his career.

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.

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.

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

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

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

The truth is, I probably would be dead if I had become a star, because at that point I was so closeted and so afraid of people of finding out I was gay. There was no telling what would have happened.

It's kind of a shame that it's even an issue. Not being gay, I can't fully appreciate how complicated that is. In the article, the interviewer asked me, and I said that if I were, I would just say it.

The truth is that I am a gay American.

Without a doubt, my sexuality was something that I just never discussed, especially in the 1950s.

I didn't have a coming out moment.

I've got lots of problems. Being gay isn't one of them.

I used to be scared of people thinking I was gay but now I'd be shocked if they didn't.

I knew from a very, very early age that I was gay, although in the social environment in Venezuela, you don't ever let that be known.

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

I really brought that with me: that people think gay people are disgusting... I remember thinking, 'Okay, I might be gay. But I won't tell anybody. Nobody will ever know.'

I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.

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.

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.

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

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

My being gay was something of not great interest to me.

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.