Jenna Wortham Quotes

I identify as a gay man all the time, but I also like to identify as queer.

I prefer men who are queer. Not gay men, but queer men - guys with an open mind. Bisexual men, because they're able to understand the different elements of the body without judging that I don't conform to a certain ideal.

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.

For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'

A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.

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!

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

I mean, come on: At the end of the day, we're all bisexual. A hundred years from now, there's not gonna be gay or straight. There's gonna be everything.

The people want to know is Walter straight, homosexual, metrosexual, bisexual - I don't care. Here I am, I am who I am, that's it.

My sexuality is not black and white. I'm a gay man who has occasionally drifted. I am not bi. I've had perfectly pleasant romances with women, but they weren't sustainable. My passion wasn't there. I would always be looking at guys.

I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid.

When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and femmes, and I felt like I was neither of those things. I'm in a turtleneck and jeans and just learning to be comfortable in that space. I realized I don't have to be a certain way.

I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.

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 consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

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

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

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

The adage that you're either gay or straight or you're lying, well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist.

I'm, like, a person who likes love. And I can find love in any type of person. I've dated girls, and I've liked girls. But they're usually straight girls, so it never works out. I mean, I'm not that gay, so I don't have the energy to convince someone else to be gay, you know?

My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

I consider myself gay because at the end of the night, that's who I want to cuddle with. But when I go out, I go to straight clubs.

I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.