Mary Cheney Quotes

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

I had a lot of fear about coming out as a kid.

When you're a young kid and you're gay, you're out there on your own. And you're trying to figure this thing out. And your parents typically aren't gay.

I think it's always good for gay people to come out, but it's also understandable why people might choose not to do so.

I came out to myself when I was about 15 or 16, and to my parents when I was 18. When you come out to your parents, that's when it's properly official.

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

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.

My coming out was just so boring.

I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.

I wanted so badly to be straight like my friends. But I couldn't change it any more than I could change having brown eyes. And I knew I would never fit into what kids thought was normal.

I feel very fortunate that while I had a little bit of personal panic or maybe a little internal struggle as a teenager, really coming to terms with the fact that I was gay, and also knowing I was going to have to tell my family. And, how was that going to affect things? And would it affect things? And ultimately, it did not.

I really didn't talk about my sexuality until I wrote my autobiography.

I didn't have a coming out moment.

When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through a long, tortured period, so the fact that I have been able to be true to myself and have a family has been the nicest surprise of my adulthood.

I came out at 17.

I didn't quite fit in in any particular, specific way. I was a gay teenager who was into drama.

At some point, I came out to a lot of friends and some family, but then I went back in the closet when I started working as an actor in America.

I was 15 years old when I came out.

When I went to prom in the early 1990s, I seesawed between my wish to get asked by the right guy and ride in the cool kids' limousine with the burgeoning realization that I was gay. I had a fun night, but I was far from my authentic, assertive self that night. Prom felt mostly like a job I had to do to maintain my position in the social hierarchy.

As young as 10 I started fancying boys. It's a common experience but I just wished I wasn't gay up until the age of 18 or 19.

I came out when I was 15 and I was a very active teenager in that regard.

You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.

You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.