Pete Wentz Quotes

I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'

Some people have their sexuality really at the forefront of who they are, and I applaud those people.

I'm not gay.

I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

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

I was a closet straight. I think I wanted to be gay because I thought it was arty and interesting. And also, I was phenomenally shy with girls.

My life's not about being gay - although one could argue I'm pretty professionally gay - but that's not how I experience life. Being gay is a profound part of who I am, but it isn't all of who I am.

I've been thinking a lot about my relationship to my own queerness, and I think the word pansexual speaks to me more than bi does.

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.

I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosexual orientation as the norm from which to start as the given. And everything that fell outside of that was not acceptable.

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

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

I never felt I was attractive to women. I felt I was attractive to men when I was growing up. And even now, if a woman fancies me, I find that a bit alienating.

I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual.

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?

I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.

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

If there ever has been any confusion about my sexuality, then you are someone that doesn't even know me!

I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.

I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.