Olly Alexander Quotes

God did not create gays and lesbians so He could have something to hate!

I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

Gayness is a non-issue.

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

Just because I'm in favor of gay rights doesn't mean that I'm gay or doesn't mean I'm some kind of 'sissy' or something. That's the language that you hear in locker rooms.

When I came out, when I was 17 years old, it was one of those things where I realized that there was going to be so many obstacles, but being gay doesn't mean being weak.

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.

My truth is I am gay and out, and if I can't do that in my music, then I don't need it. Fortunately, I do feel like there is a movement against homophobia, and I hope to be part of that.

We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

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

I'm for all kinds of gay rights. I'm almost like a gay man myself.

Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.

To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.

I'm not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding and depth of compassion who's gonna say 'no.'

I wish to spend my life's twilight being just who I am. I could claim noble reasons as coming out in order to move gay rights forward, but I must admit it is for far more selfish reasons. Now is the time I wish to find someone, and I do not desire to force any potential partner to live a life of extreme discretion with me.

Gay is not a choice.

We have to start making sure that churches start to talk about... black queerness in a way that's affirming. Because a lot of young black men are in the church, and that's where they start to learn this self-hate behavior.

I am not as knowledgeable about the struggle for gay rights, for our history, the way some of my castmates or other gay men I know are.