Ben Hopkins Quotes

It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

I was 'gay-bashed' when I was in school even though, you know, I'm not... I'm a straight guy that just happens to be what I do. So, it's easily relatable to me. It was awful. It's a hard time in a kid's life.

A lot of people call me gay because they don't see me with anyone.

I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.

I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents. Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.

My brother used to get beaten up all the time because he was very effeminate.

The gay thing has always been hard for me.

A lot of people thought I was gay.

The marginalization of African-Americans within their own community based on sexuality is a construct that is more complex than the idea that 'blacks just hate gays.'

When you're coming out, you have to deal with the whole world saying 'Oh! You're an abominable snowman'.

No one knew I was gay growing up but I was bullied. I was a cheerleader, fairly popular and considered straight.

When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

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.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.

There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.