Neil Tennant Quotes

A lot of people thought I was gay.

I knew that I was different when I was six years old, but it wasn't until I got to about 10 or 11 that I realised I was a gay man.

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

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

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

I don't think any gay dude is gangsta, period.

Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'.

I wanted so badly to be straight like my friends. But I couldn't change it any more than I could change having brown eyes. And I knew I would never fit into what kids thought was normal.

I was homophobic because I obviously didn't know that I was gay.

The gay thing has always been hard for me.

It was my own internalised homophobia. I didn't want to be gay.

I realized so much of my college years were spent not wanting to be gay. I just imagined how different it would be if I were going through that experience in 2016 as opposed to 1984.

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.

I was insecure and ashamed. Unless you're gay, being gay has never been looked at as being cool. And I wanted to be cool.

I knew from a very, very early age that I was gay, although in the social environment in Venezuela, you don't ever let that be known.

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

Being gay, you're kind of forced to ask, I suppose, very existential questions from a very, very early age. Your identity becomes so important to you because you're trying to understand it, and, I think, from the age of, like, 9, you're being forced to ask questions... that other kids maybe don't have to ask.

I had told one of my friends that I felt like I might be gay or that I just wasn't into girls, and I was abandoned.

I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

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.

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

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.

In the early '90s, I wrote a play called 'Word of Mouth' in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that he's gay.

As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.