Andrew Solomon Quotes

You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

A lot of straight people think I'm nuts.

But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.

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

Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!

I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight.

No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.

Gay is not a choice.

One of my best friends since I was eleven years old is a gay man, and I knew his struggle. It was a tough life, you not accepting yourself.

Something inside of me tells me that being homosexual is probably wrong.

While I respect all genders, I do not wish to acknowledge homosexuals as I have been taught that God created man and woman with specific characteristics and duties.

If you took one of these One Direction kids, because they basically are kids, my guess is one of them is gay.

Am I proud of being straight? No. You know why? Because if I start acting proud, that's going to make me seem kind of gay.

Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because you might as well have called him a warlock. Nobody knew what gay was.

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 don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't.

No one knew I was gay growing up but I was bullied. I was a cheerleader, fairly popular and considered straight.

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

The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.

Everybody always thinks I'm a lesbian because I'm a very tough broad. I have a lot of lesbian fans.

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.