Peter Thiel Quotes

I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.

I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.'

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.

Everyone's journey as a gay man or woman is different; it's personal.

My whole life is queer.

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

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.

I don't feel closeted.

My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.'

I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian.

In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.

As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.

I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch.

I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.

I know growing up as a young gay person how much you hate yourself, how much you already think you're different.

I've been gay since the day I was born.

There is no universal coming out process, so far as I know.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

I'm interested in telling a story about a gay man and what he's going through as an artist and as a lonely, single gay man. I want to reveal what I know about loneliness.

We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.

I didn't want to wave the flag and be like, 'Look! I'm gay! Da da da.' I just wanted to say, 'This is my lifestyle.'

I'm a shy person whose very presence has become a confrontation. I think that's true of a lot of queer people.

The thing about gay people is that until we come out of the closet, we're always protecting other people: 'I can't do this, because it's gonna hurt so-and-so.' We're trying to live the lives of other people, and that's the worst thing you can do.

I've known I was gay since I was young, I think. And I mean young - like, young - like 5 or 6. I think most gay people or queer people know there's something different about them very early, but I didn't know what to call it.