Pete Townshend Quotes

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.

Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit. So what? That never discouraged a man yet, in fact it seems to goad them on.

Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

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.

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.

Our gays are more macho than their straights.

I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay is the last adjective I would use to describe myself. The idea of being gay, like a little sparkler, never occurs to me. So if you ask me if I'm gay, I say no.

It's hard to know what's gay in life. Boxing. That's two men fighting over a belt.

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.

A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.

I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.

If there ever has been any confusion about my sexuality, then you are someone that doesn't even know me!

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

I never said I was gay, because I don't think anyone is.

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

In Hollywood it seems that you're considered gay until proven otherwise.

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

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.

You don't walk like other boys. You don't talk like other boys. But at six, you are not thinking about your sexuality.

To call me gay is a compliment. Also, if I'd been macho, I'd just have had an audience full of men.

The urge to push the concept of sex and sexuality into the fringes of the human experience is so bizarre to me.