Michel Foucault Quotes

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.

But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

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.

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

I was romantically socialized as a gay man, and now that I am, for most intents and purposes, a heterosexual woman, I have to learn how to talk to straight men, which is the scariest thing I've ever done.

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

I'm as heterosexual as any person need be. I'm open about my relationships - or lack thereof - in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn't contagious. It's not something that you can catch or learn or choose.

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

People have always said, are you gay? I've had a lot of that. But it's just not in me. I really like women a lot; I'm repulsed by men sexually.

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

Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.

I am not bisexual. I am not gay. I have never had sex with men.

I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.

We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.

I'm a straight guy and I date women, but I get on really well with gay guys. I'm very comfortable with my sexuality. The weirdest thing for me is when straight guys get really freaked out by gay guys. It's almost like they're insecure in their own sexuality. For me, I can be in a room full of gay men and have fun.

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

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

I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.

I know a lot of gay males who I work with that are fantastic people and I love hanging out with them. But because I hang out and bring gay men into my life, does that mean that I'm gay? I promise you that I very much love women.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

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!