Robert Gant Quotes

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.

I've just never talked about it. But it's so liberating. It was interesting to be coming to have a conversation that I was always afraid to have. This is my coming out ball. I've been dying to do this.

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

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

I'm actually sort of shocked that I was able to get a medal in 2014 and really have any of the success I had before because as soon as I came out, it was like a whole new world for me, and I felt so free, so confident, that it's actually shocking that I was able to compete any other way.

Before my transition I felt trapped, and now I've been set free.

There's nothing more powerful than coming out and being who you are.

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

I feel extremely lucky to compete openly as who I am, not worry about ramifications.

I think there's a freedom in freeing yourself of the baggage of ability.

For me, being out within my life became far more important than being in any movie.

The difference between being in the closet and out of the closet as a gay man is such a huge shift. I feel so connected still to that 22-year-old, but the idea that I was not open with that part of my life - which I am now so open about - is sort of surreal.

Once I came out of the closet, it was sort of that thing of 'The truth will set you free.'

Getting to be authentic is so liberating.

Christine was me wanting to break free. I was tired of being prissy and shrinking and apologising all of the time, so I created a character that could be daring for me.

I'm so proud that now you can exist as a gay man and be an Olympian, and it can be beneficial rather than negative. So it's amazing. And I just think I feel so liberated now that I've been out of the closet for a while, and so I'm free in that I just get to be myself, speak freely, act freely, and I think that I am competing confidently.

Transparent' was my coming-out party.

I'm really embracing that very out, very loud, very free persona that I am now but that I didn't get to be in high school.