Stephen Fry Quotes

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

We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.

I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.

I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them.

I'm not gay.

I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

I never talked about homosexuality with my family. After I was 18, they know everything, but I never talk; it was like an information but in silence. I start to talk when I was 32, it was good for me - it was like a liberation. I'm talking about a love story. I'm not talking about sex because love is love.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

To be perfectly honest, I've gotten attention from gay men for a long time.

I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed. I don't feel there was a hidden part of my sexuality that I wasn't aware of. I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange.

I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

Jenny McCarthy was the one I thought could turn me straight. I thought that if I could just get my shot with her, it could happen.

When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.

Do I think J. Edgar Hoover was gay? Yes. Do I think he cross-dressed? No.

What love life? I'm not gay, but I might as well be.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

I am an openly proud gay man.

I have been a proud, openly gay man since I was 18.

Where I grew up, the one unmistakable sign of homosexuality was to betray some interest in your appearance.

For the record, I am gay.

If a straight man dresses well, chances are he's not straight.

'The Judas Kiss' was really wonderful. I loved that it concentrated on just two events in Wilde's life, and Rupert Everett was top dollar.

The perspective that I come from when I sing, when I perform, is of who I am as a black gay man.