Val McDermid Quotes

Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome.

I'm happy to be everybody's gay best friend.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week.

I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I honestly don't care what people do personally in their individual lives.

It's not the '90s anymore. I think the gay community is a lot more accepted these days.

I was gay before I began to play soccer over 40 years ago. It's been 28 years since a friend and I organized one of the first gay soccer teams in the world.

I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a culture that doesn't have stigmas about sexuality.

My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.

I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay.

My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto.

I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends.

I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.

When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people.

I could never be homophobic in any kind of way, dude. I'm such a free bird.

I myself know some people who are gay. We're on friendly terms. I'm not prejudiced in any way.

If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to most people, given how comfortable and how out I am being the only late-night gay talk-show host.

I am not homophobic - in no way, shape or form.

I can't see any way in the world that being gay can cause damage to somebody else.

If a person is gay and accepts the Lord, who am I to judge them.

People identify with other people for different reasons, and I personally am really comfortable around lesbians because, in some ways, we view women the same way.

I've gone to normal clubs, straight clubs, and I've gone to gay clubs to party with my friends and fans. There's no difference. I have nothing to prove. I'm very comfortable in my own skin, and I'm thankful to have as many close gay friends as I have, people who have been so supportive in my life and have always been there for me.

I had a tremendous amount of gay friends, so my whole life was basically like that... I never noticed who was gay or who was straight.