George Colman Quotes

I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.

Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.

I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

I know growing up as a young gay person how much you hate yourself, how much you already think you're different.

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 was a gay kid who didn't know I was a gay kid, which was really challenging because you think there is something wrong with you until you understand what it is.

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.

I was insecure and ashamed. Unless you're gay, being gay has never been looked at as being cool. And I wanted to be cool.

When you're a young kid and you're gay, you're out there on your own. And you're trying to figure this thing out. And your parents typically aren't gay.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

I came out when I was 17 - coming out in middle or high school is one of the most difficult things that anyone could experience. I wouldn't wish it on my enemies.

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.

Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.

I'm gay, and I was born this way.

I wanted so badly to be straight like my friends. But I couldn't change it any more than I could change having brown eyes. And I knew I would never fit into what kids thought was normal.

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

I was homophobic because I obviously didn't know that I was gay.

Knowing you're gay, as a kid in the '80s, is a very scary thing.

The gay thing has always been hard for me.

I knew that I was different when I was six years old, but it wasn't until I got to about 10 or 11 that I realised I was a gay man.

It was my own internalised homophobia. I didn't want to be gay.

I didn't want to be gay. I wanted to be... I wanted an easy life. And you know what? I am gay, and I still have an easy life.

I used to hate myself for being gay. I couldn't come to terms with it.

A lot of people thought I was gay.