Nico Santos Quotes

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

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

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

I just, I was in such denial within myself for the longest time, just because of the place I grew up in. Like, it wasn't common. I didn't know anybody that was gay. I think I had one gay friend in high school and she never even, like, came out. It was just, like, we all just knew.

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.

I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight.

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

It is cool to be gay, but I am not.

I discovered that I was gay when I was about nine or ten. I did go out with girls for a while, but it didn't last.

If you took one of these One Direction kids, because they basically are kids, my guess is one of them is gay.

I'm not a lesbian! I hate men but I'm not a lesbian!

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

In 'The L Word' heterosexuals playfully remark to one another on which members of the same sex they find hot and sometimes dally accordingly; lesbians pick up men if they want to; one of the women is bisexual; and, as in life, gay people and straight people go to the same parties, live in the same neighborhoods and are even related to one another.

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

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.

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.

Lately, I've been a little sad that I'm not a gay man.

What's it like to figure out you're gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life, I felt doomed. I could imagine no path that would allow me to realize my authentic self. I felt the need to lie, even to myself, insisting: I am straight.

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

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

I'm far from being a homosexual.