Valerie Plame Quotes

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

Gay people in general, I think, like telling secrets because we have to hide a huge secret for the first half of our lives. Why would we want to keep any more?

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.

Compared to being caught in the wrong body, being plagued by 'dysmorphic OCD thoughts,' being gay is commonplace and mostly accepted. What once seemed unimaginable and shameful has been revealed to be perfectly normal.

I was terrified about people knowing I was gay. I'd cringe inside at the idea that they'd be talking behind my back.

I think it can be difficult for young lesbian or young gay, bisexual, transgender to come out and be open with who they are because there's such a huge stigma attached to that preference of their sexuality.

George was adamant his sexuality should be kept under wraps, which created a wholly unwelcome extra level of stress for him to manage.

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.

I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality.

I've been bisexual for as long as I can remember. I remember being made fun of in junior high for that. It was something that was shameful, and it really shouldn't be.

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

If I was gay, why wouldn't I admit it? It wouldn't harm me.

I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.

When I was outed, it was like, That's done.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

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.

When I was outed by Perez Hilton as bisexual, I suddenly started being asked personal questions, which was really difficult.

'Milk' doesn't imply that all gay men who stayed in the closet were cowards.

I never mentioned my sexuality to Warner Bros. at all, and they never mentioned it to me, thank God.

One funny thing I realized is how many people had no idea that I was gay because they don't bother to look it up or ask.

When your doctor and neighbours and child's schoolteachers know you are gay, there is no closet for you to hide in.

I don't think of me as, quote, 'coming out,' because I was never 'in.' I rarely, if ever, spoke about my private life and remain as neutral as possible.

At some point, I came out to a lot of friends and some family, but then I went back in the closet when I started working as an actor in America.

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.