George Weinberg Quotes

I'm not even sure I want to use the term 'coming out.'

There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.

Everyone's journey as a gay man or woman is different; it's personal.

My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.'

I didn't have a coming out moment.

I want to continue to use my platform to tell my story to let young people that are struggling with their sexuality or identity know they are not alone, and it will get better.

Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.

I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian.

I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.

Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready.

There are a lot of coming out videos of people who are gay or lesbian, and they're so confident. But it made me cry because I'm not that. I don't know who I am 100 percent.

I kinda always felt like I am out, for all intents and purposes. So I always came from the standpoint of, 'Why does writing it in an article or saying it in an article make me gay?' That doesn't make me gay or not. I'm living my life. I'm not lying; I don't hide it.

Not everybody comes out when they're in their twenties, you know?

I was 15 years old when I came out.

It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.

I realized I was gay when I was a teenager and I couldn't imagine what it meant to be a gay adult. I just did the next thing that seemed right, and that led me from activism to media to the kind of media I'm in now. But I like where I've ended up.

If I had had someone like me who had chosen to live their lives out and proud, there would be no need for the Tyler Clementis of the world.

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 came out around 25 publicly.

I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.

I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.

I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.