Tituss Burgess Quotes

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.

The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.

I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.

I didn't know what gay was until I lived in New York for 10 years. You know, I was just underexposed in that regard.

I'm on the younger end of Gen X, and for me, growing up gay was not cool.

I'm gay.

If you ask anyone who is gay, they know, there is no confusion.

I'm not ashamed to be gay.

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

I am an openly proud gay man.

Today, it seems almost everyone knows a friend or relative who is gay.

My being gay was something of not great interest to me.

I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.

Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

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

People come up to me in pubs - gay pubs, mind you - and can't believe that I'm gay.

Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.

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.

Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.

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

I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.

I have lived my life very openly, and have never hidden the fact that I am gay!

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

The truth is that I am a gay American.

My life's not about being gay - although one could argue I'm pretty professionally gay - but that's not how I experience life. Being gay is a profound part of who I am, but it isn't all of who I am.