Leslie Jordan Quotes

It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly.

Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: 'This is me, it has to be me.' And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away.

I'm proud of my sexuality.

My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

I watched a million coming-out videos, and that was kind of how I accepted it myself.

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.

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

Frankly, no one had ever asked me before. My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about.

I'm gay, and I was born this way.

I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.

I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'

I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.

I realize it's a cliche, almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.

There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself.

If I remember back to when I wasn't open about my sexuality, I spent a great deal of time worried about it.

In the beginning, I was worried there are too many shots of me as a boy out there. Now I'm at a point where I know my past doesn't make me any less of a woman today. I can be proud of it. I don't have to bury it.

I came out at 17.

I was never hiding from being gay; I just never talked about it.

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

'If Our Love Is Wrong' is, quite simply, my coming out song, as I was trying to wrap my head around my sexuality and was starting to learn about songwriting, and that my honesty and my authenticity came from my personal experiences and writing about stuff that genuinely bugged me or upset me.

My sexuality's something that's intimate. It's not anything that I'm ashamed of.

I want to continue to use my platform to tell my story to let young people that are struggling with their sexuality or identity know they are not alone, and it will get better.

It's great to be out and proud.

If I was gay, I would be the best gay of all history.