John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

I actually don't label myself, but... Some people call me queer; some people call me bisexual, whatever it is now. I'm happy with all of it 'cause it all sort of represents me, in a way. I spent a majority of my life in the closet.

I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.

I know that, as a bisexual, sometimes people who are gay or lesbian look down upon the bisexual community as well and assume that people who are bisexual just don't know what they want or are just playing both sides of the fence, and that's not the case, either.

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

I consider myself gay because at the end of the night, that's who I want to cuddle with. But when I go out, I go to straight clubs.

I wouldn't ever give myself the label bisexual, but bi-curious, yeah.

For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'

Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!

There is a large group that's not represented on television - the group that falls somewhere in the middle of straight and gay. That group is looked down on, because people say, 'You can't be in-between. You have to pick one or the other.'

Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.

The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.

People's sexuality is often defined by who we're partnered with at any given moment, which can be a frustrating limitation for me. I've had countless tiny 'coming out' moments in my life, often simply to explain to someone else that they have misjudged my sexuality based on who they saw me dating.

I am more than just a label. Why are people so driven to labeling where we fall on the sexual spectrum?

I always knew that I liked guys. I just thought it was a normal thing to like guys but then also appreciate girls' attention too.

I don't really identify as gay; I don't really know what I am.

I identify as queer. I just don't know what any of these labels mean.

I feel, in the sense that if you're heterosexual, if you're bisexual, if you're gay, if you're a lesbian, if you're transgender, whatever the vibe is, that's what you represent. I've always found it quite strange that we always like to try and define people and say this is how it is, and this is how it should be.

Being bisexual doesn't mean I'm suddenly willy-nilly running around.

Any gay man in America redeals a deck at some point.

I'm not really gay, and I can't sit here and say that I am, because that's not real and that's not genuine. But I also can't sit here and say that I'm straight. This is something I've come to the conclusion through therapy and from being honest with myself. I am bisexual.

Bisexual? Me? I don't think so. I'm pretty sure I'm not.

I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about. I've slept with girls; I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives.

Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars.