John Grant Quotes

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 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.

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

I'm the only gay person my parents know.

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.

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

For me, as a kid, I always felt like being gay was something that was going make people turn on me.

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.

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

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 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.

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!

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

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.

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable.

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.

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.

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

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

The truth is that I am a gay American.

When I was a teenager, the biggest heartthrob was Tab Hunter. He was in every movie out of Warner Bros. until he was exposed as gay, and his career faded. That was an object lesson. I knew I must protect my sexual orientation.

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

The gay thing has always been hard for me.