Michel Foucault Quotes

I'm not a lesbian. I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it invented a pariah state, a leper colony for the incorrigible whose very existence, when tolerated openly, was admonition to all. We queers keep everyone straight as whores keep matrons virtuous.

Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.

But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.

If I hadn't been born a woman, I would have certainly been gay.

I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight.

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.

Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.

I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

I'm far from being a homosexual.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!

There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals.

There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.

Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.'

I think when I was a young person, there was just kind of - there was very little dialogue about it. And there was just kind of one way to be gay, right? You saw very effeminate guys. You saw very butch women. And there was no kind of in-between. And there was no - you know, there wasn't anything in the media. There wasn't anything on television.

Everyone I dated was gay.

Homosexuality is a genetic flaw.

Gay people are made and not born.

My theory is the spectrum: there's a spectrum of sexuality.

I think a lot of people are very interested in why other people are trans or why people are gay.