Kristian Nairn Quotes

I am an openly proud gay man.

For the record, I am gay.

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 guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.

I've been openly gay since I can remember.

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

In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.

I was a gay kid who didn't know I was a gay kid, which was really challenging because you think there is something wrong with you until you understand what it is.

I came out to my mom at the age of 14. She didn't understand it at first, but she's been very supportive since.

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

Experiences with friends or family members coming out have helped millions of Americans to see past stereotypes and better understand what being gay is - and is not.

'If Our Love Is Wrong' is, quite simply, my coming out song, as I was trying to wrap my head around my sexuality and was starting to learn about songwriting, and that my honesty and my authenticity came from my personal experiences and writing about stuff that genuinely bugged me or upset me.

I came out at 16 years old as a proud, gay man. My last girlfriend in high school - when I was 15 - became pregnant with my child but did not tell me.

[On being lesbian:] One pointer: don't come out to your dad in a moving vehicle.

Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It's easier for me to flirt with girls now that girls know that I'm gay. It almost makes it a sexier encounter than if I was trying to pretend that I was straight.

I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.

On YouTube, if anything, coming out as gay or bi or trans explodes someone's popularity.

It never occurred to me that I needed to say that I was gay. I simply am. Anyone who knows me or who's been around me ten minutes knows it too.

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.

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.

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.