Madonna Ciccone Quotes

I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

I have no idea why gay men love me, but I would have to assume it's because they know how much I love the gays! Everyone needs a good gay man in their life.

I'm not naive to the fact that I'm an out gay actor.

I posed for a gay magazine, which caused much comment. But it doesn't bother me. Gay people are fighting the same kind of stereotyping that bodybuilders are: People have certain misconceptions about them just as they do about us.

Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.

I've been so blessed to work with all my favorite artists as a gay man.

A lot of people thought I was gay.

I don't think that one thing defines me, but I know that by coming out the way that I did, sort of almost pioneering it in action sports - to take that stand - that it's always going to be a label that is stuck with me, and I know that I'll always be the 'gay skier,' and it actually doesn't bother me.

One funny thing I realized is how many people had no idea that I was gay because they don't bother to look it up or ask.

I'm not saying that being straight is easy, but when you're gay, you don't really have a familial network or support system. You have to find that.

Gay people in general, I think, like telling secrets because we have to hide a huge secret for the first half of our lives. Why would we want to keep any more?

I'm a gay man and a proud gay man and a loud gay man.

The moment I came out as a gay man, I never really thought of the consequences. Of course, the proverbial happened: it hits the newswires, and it's this big, big thing.

First and foremost, I'm an athlete. And I'm an Olympian. I'm not a gay Olympian. I'm just an Olympian that's also gay. I don't mind reading that - like, 'gay Olympian Adam Rippon.' It's fine. I hope that, in a way, it makes it easier for other young kids who are gay. If they go to the Olympics, they can just be called Olympians.

I know that in writer's rooms across North America, there are still conversations about how much is too much when it comes to intimacy between, in my case, two men. That's an insane conversation to be having.

Through the years, I have been overwhelmed by the number of people who have shared how much they relate to my 'Sordid Lives' family, and how many gay men and women used it to come out to their conservative families through the humor of the film.

Coming out as a gay man, it was very much about finding my own identity and dealing with labeling.

Miley Cyrus followed me, tweeted at me. We started messaging; we traded numbers. She's become like a friend. She's super supportive of me being gay.

I Like Gay Men, Right Ken?

I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.

When I was signed, at the age of 23...the fact that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very unusual.

A lot of my hair stylists and my beauty team that I work with are gay so I hang out with gays a lot and I just think they're adorable and hilarious.

I understand why the gay community wants to embrace actors who are out. People want to be represented.

The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.

Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, “It's not like I hate gay people.”