Suzanne Brockmann Quotes

How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?

My dream is to have a gay son.

I came out to my mom at the age of 14. She didn't understand it at first, but she's been very supportive since.

How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.

If my kid came to me and said 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'Son, I love you.'

My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.

I don't know, maybe my sons will be gay.

Although my parents both liked her, they just didn't approve of a same-sex relationship. Nowadays, people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up, the parents defined the child - and my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.

The hardest part about rollerblading is telling your parents you're gay.

Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because you might as well have called him a warlock. Nobody knew what gay was.

I read that a lot of people think I'm gay. I don't care. My boyfriend and I are not really phased by what people say.

I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.

You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian.

Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.

I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.

I don't think I'm a gay icon. I have no axe to grind. I mean, I'm clearly not homophobic! I'm not pro or con.

If 'gay' is not in your vocabulary, if being gay is not an option in your world, then you're far more likely to see your kid as anything but gay.

Growing up, one of my cousins was an out gay man.

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.

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.

I was homophobic because I obviously didn't know that I was gay.

When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity.