Stefano Gabbana Quotes

My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.

I knew I was gay when I was around 13. There wasn't the internet, there weren't support groups, AIDS was everywhere. I mean, it was really dark.

When you're a young kid and you're gay, you're out there on your own. And you're trying to figure this thing out. And your parents typically aren't gay.

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

I feel very fortunate that while I had a little bit of personal panic or maybe a little internal struggle as a teenager, really coming to terms with the fact that I was gay, and also knowing I was going to have to tell my family. And, how was that going to affect things? And would it affect things? And ultimately, it did not.

I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.

Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It's easier for me to flirt with girls now that girls know that I'm gay. It almost makes it a sexier encounter than if I was trying to pretend that I was straight.

I've been uncomfortable dealing with my identity since I was 16 years old.

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.

I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.

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.

You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

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

I watched pretty much every coming out video on YouTube that has ever been posted; I watched it in between 14 and a half and 15. Those coming out videos, and those people on YouTube, those brave, brave, brave people on YouTube, without them, I don't know where I'd be.

Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.

In the early '90s, I wrote a play called 'Word of Mouth' in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that he's gay.

When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.

I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable.

If I was gay, why would I hide it?

I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.