Pete Wentz Quotes

Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

I always wished that I was gay, that I was just 100 percent gay - for so many reasons. No. 1, that means I would know who I was. No. 2, it would be a lot easier for me to be accepted by people because I wear wigs and dresses on the Internet, and I'm feminine and all these things. It'd be so much easier to be just like, 'Yeah, I'm gay.' But I'm not.

I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.

For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'

If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not.

The writing was so clearly written on the wall about me, but I didn't see it. I had no role models. I didn't know there was even a possibility of being gay. I battled with it, but this was the way God made me. If you have a problem with it, take it up with the man upstairs.

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

I thought about being gay, but it didn't fit.

For some reason, I was deeply ashamed of the theater early on. I think it had to do with this growing sense I was gay, although I couldn't have put a word to it back then.

I'd gone through life being obsessed about my sexuality. People would ask about relationships, girlfriends, you start referring to people as 'they' so there's no judgment and you can be ambiguous. People around me knew, but I still struggled with talking about it openly.

The people want to know is Walter straight, homosexual, metrosexual, bisexual - I don't care. Here I am, I am who I am, that's it.

I'd spent my twenties trying to be everything to everybody. I had my family, my straight friends, and I was starting to develop a gay circle of friends. I was seeing some men, seeing some women, and trying to sort it all out.

I actually don't label myself, but... Some people call me queer; some people call me bisexual, whatever it is now. I'm happy with all of it 'cause it all sort of represents me, in a way. I spent a majority of my life in the closet.

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche in creation. ~ The Well of Loneliness, 1928

I've been uncomfortable dealing with my identity since I was 16 years old.

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.

I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.

My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.

Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.

When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

I'm not even sure I want to use the term 'coming out.'

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

In the early '90s, I wrote a play called 'Word of Mouth' in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that he's gay.