Cupcakke Quotes

I came out at a very early age. I sat my mom down at my 12th birthday party and told her in front of my friends. She said, 'Baby, mama already knows, and I'm going to love you regardless.' Once I got my mom's support, there was nothing else I needed.

I came out because I fell in love. It wasn't a terrible, horrible, damn thing. I was in love with somebody, and I wanted to scream it from the rooftops.

I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.

No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay. Those two words rip the picture of a daughter-in-law and grandchildren into pieces. I felt sorry for my mom and wanted her to know everything was going to be all right. But then she said, 'I don't really care, Johnny, as long as I know that you are going to be happy.'

All I can really say is to encourage anybody who's in the closet to come out, and congratulate anyone who has.

I was surprised how supportive my family and friends were in my coming out, and it gave and still gives me hope.

It's important to come out to yourself first and be comfortable with it. After that, I feel it's important to surround yourself with a group of friends who support you and love you for who you are.

The most moving responses I got to my coming out in the first place was people, like teenagers, letting me know that it made their lives easier in some way.

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

I watched pretty much every coming out video on YouTube that has ever been posted; I watched it in between 14 and a half and 15. Those coming out videos, and those people on YouTube, those brave, brave, brave people on YouTube, without them, I don't know where I'd be.

Coming out was painful, but life got so much better for me.

I watched a million coming-out videos, and that was kind of how I accepted it myself.

I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have love in your life, you can be a contributing member of society and you can be respected - I think that's it.

Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?

Wherever I find love I will accept it.

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.

The curious thing is that I embraced homosexuality with as much joy and delight as I've embraced everything else in my life.

The beloved is one who nurtures you, trusts you, supports you, encourages you, loves you without conditions. That's you.

I support love any healthy way you can get it.

I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.

Everybody deserves to be loved.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

All young people, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, need someone who's got their back.