Bernard Manning Quotes

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

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.

People have always said, are you gay? I've had a lot of that. But it's just not in me. I really like women a lot; I'm repulsed by men sexually.

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

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.

There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals.

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't.

I'm as heterosexual as any person need be. I'm open about my relationships - or lack thereof - in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn't contagious. It's not something that you can catch or learn or choose.

I've been bisexual for as long as I can remember. I remember being made fun of in junior high for that. It was something that was shameful, and it really shouldn't be.

There's nothing wrong with being gay, but I'm not.

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

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

Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.

If people think I am gay, yeah, hey that doesn't bother me. Not at all. What would people think? To me I am such a heterosexual guy. It doesn't even, I don't even think about it.

I am not bisexual. I am not gay. I have never had sex with men.

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

We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.

I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.

I never said I was gay, because I don't think anyone is.

It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.

When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.