Olly Alexander Quotes

I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.

I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

I had a lot of friends for a long time who were gay, and I didn't even realize it for awhile. Even in my mid- to late 20s, I was still pretty naive about it.

Experiences with friends or family members coming out have helped millions of Americans to see past stereotypes and better understand what being gay is - and is not.

Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

Growing up in the Bible Belt of Texas, I thought for sure there was no way - if I'm 100 percent true to myself and come out as a gay, African-American person in 2015 - that people are going to be able to accept that and understand it.

Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'

I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.

Bisexuals are gay people - we're all gay. Some people don't like that.

Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.

There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.

My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto.

I am a gay American.

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

I'm gay, and I was born this way.

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

There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.

The whole principle of coming out is that everyone knows someone who's gay. The minute someone comes out, no one can be a bigot, because someone they love is gay.

The gay thing has always been hard for me.

I knew that I was different when I was six years old, but it wasn't until I got to about 10 or 11 that I realised I was a gay man.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

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

Gay men are still men.

I think it can be difficult for young lesbian or young gay, bisexual, transgender to come out and be open with who they are because there's such a huge stigma attached to that preference of their sexuality.