Laura Ricketts Quotes

Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.

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 didn't happen to be one of those gay kids who knew definitively by the time I was 13.

I've known I was gay since I was young, I think. And I mean young - like, young - like 5 or 6. I think most gay people or queer people know there's something different about them very early, but I didn't know what to call it.

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.

Lots of women don't realize that they're gay until they're grown up.

My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.'

I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.

Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.

My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay.

I've been gay since the day I was born.

It's important for me to talk about my life as a gay man, not gay themes per se, in my work.

If you ask anyone who is gay, they know, there is no confusion.

I knew I was gay since, like, fifth grade.

When I went to prom in the early 1990s, I seesawed between my wish to get asked by the right guy and ride in the cool kids' limousine with the burgeoning realization that I was gay. I had a fun night, but I was far from my authentic, assertive self that night. Prom felt mostly like a job I had to do to maintain my position in the social hierarchy.

In high school, I came out to my friends as queer. My entire world opened up; this was a monumental step toward unveiling my truest self. I had my first girlfriend when I was sixteen years old.

The only thing I have going on at a personal level is just the way I knew I was gay and I knew what that meant inside me, but the gender aspect of who I am came later.

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 don't think you choose whether or not you're gay.

My being gay was something of not great interest to me.

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.

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

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.