Hari Nef Quotes

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

I have to be careful, as I don't want to offend Midlanders, but growing up, it wasn't like growing up in London. Anything you were interested in, you'd be able to find someone also interested in it. In the Midlands, nobody came out as gay at my school at all.

Compared to being caught in the wrong body, being plagued by 'dysmorphic OCD thoughts,' being gay is commonplace and mostly accepted. What once seemed unimaginable and shameful has been revealed to be perfectly normal.

I believe that you can love anyone. I've had relationships with women, I've had relationships with men. I don't think you should be judged based on who you find attractive. Especially guys - gay men, they really have it hard sometimes.

Whoopie doo guys, yes, I've dated girls and I've dated boys - get over it.

I love being around cool, fun guys, so I've always enjoyed talking to gay men. Maybe it's because I'm an inherent flirt, but it just feels very natural.

While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.

I have nothing against homosexuality. I just think that in this day and age most people are not ready to accept it.

As a straight man, I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance.

I have no problems with the homosexuality out there.

Queer culture was introduced to me at a very early age. It was introduced to me with a semi-positive facet because no one in my family is remotely homophobic or closed-minded.

It is difficult for people across the world to be comfortable with their sexuality. We need more education and awareness.

Now that we're seeing that you can be a really masculine football player and a homosexual, you can be a really girly boy who likes to dress in women's clothes, I think that it's just been adding to the whole discussion about homosexuality and society.

Unfortunately, a lot people still don't understand queer culture.

The radical power of 'queer' always came from its inclusivity. But that inclusivity offers a false promise of equality that does not translate to the lived reality of most queer people.

Gayness is a non-issue.

I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don't think it's because they're scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don't want to alienate an audience.

I think life is easier if you're straight.

Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire.

There's nothing wrong with being gay, but I'm not.

I think it's always good for gay people to come out, but it's also understandable why people might choose not to do so.

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

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