Bob Harper Quotes

If I was gay, I would be the best gay of all history.

It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly.

Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.

I'm gay. I just didn't think it was anybody's business.

A lot of people think that telling people you're gay is something someone might say just to get attention.

I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.

The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.

Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.

I don't feel closeted.

If I was gay, why would I hide it?

I am a gay American.

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

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 would say, if you come out, they can't take away how you play football. That was the thing for me: once I did come out, it's not going to affect my diving. I can still perform, no matter what anybody else thinks of me. I'm judged for what I do in the diving pool.

A lot of people thought I was gay.

It was shortly before my 18th birthday when I came out and admitted that I was gay.

I used to be scared of people thinking I was gay but now I'd be shocked if they didn't.

I am lucky to say now that it is not frightening for me, living in L.A., to be gay. Even when I was in Texas, I wasn't afraid. I was kind of out in high school. I just could never decide on what label. I am glad that I am public about it, and I think I should be.

I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.

Coming out as a gay man, it was very much about finding my own identity and dealing with labeling.

It's great to be out and proud.

Many things shaped my identity as a young boy: a strong selfworth (something that was instilled in all three Barrowman siblings by our parents), my immersion in theatre and music, and my DNA. I was born gay. It's not a choice I – or anyone else who is gay – made. If it were, why on earth would anyone choose to be part of a minority, part of a group that in so many cultures and countries, even in the twenty-first century, is regularly blasphemed, hounded and worse?

So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.