Richard Rodriguez Quotes

I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay.

I grew up around gay people my entire life, basically, that’s possibly why I’m quite camp, and some people think I’m gay when I meet them, which I think is awesome. It’s always good to keep them guessing.

For some reason, I was deeply ashamed of the theater early on. I think it had to do with this growing sense I was gay, although I couldn't have put a word to it back then.

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

When people have asked me in the past if I'm gay, I've said "I'm not gay, but I'm festive."

I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.

All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.

I'm very gay, but I love women. I'm not attracted to men in any way. ... But yes I am gay, I'm so happy. I'm a gay, heterosexual male. ... I got major love for the gay and lesbian community, and I just want to push less separation.

I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.

My whole family thinks I'm gay, I guess it's always been that way. Maybe it's 'cause of the way that I walk, Makes them think I like... boys.

When I was 12 or 13 I already knew that I was gay. And then my interests were not conventional. So I was very different, in every sense of the word. And in an all-boys school, that's tough.

I had to smile when stories emerged questioning whether I was gay. Obviously I knew I wasn't but people were curiously desperate to suggest I was ... when you know a gay guy has a crush on you, it's the most flattering thing.

I'm an elderly Jewish lesbian trapped in a 33 year old nerd's body.

Just as I love women, I love gay men. I always say it: inside me there is a gay man who wants to come out.

A lot of people think that telling people you're gay is something someone might say just to get attention.

Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

I am not bisexual. I am not gay. I have never had sex with men.

Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.

If I were gay, life would be a lot simpler. I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not.

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

I sort of challenge people's perceptions of what a gay man is, which is kinda good.

When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.

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

I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.