Henry Rollins Quotes

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.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

A lot of straight people think I'm nuts.

Although homosexuality has been normalised, it is not normal.

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

I never felt welcome in the heteronormative groups.

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 think life is easier if you're straight.

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.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

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

I have to be careful, as I don't want to offend Midlanders, but growing up, it wasn't like growing up in London. Anything you were interested in, you'd be able to find someone also interested in it. In the Midlands, nobody came out as gay at my school at all.

Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.

In 'The L Word' heterosexuals playfully remark to one another on which members of the same sex they find hot and sometimes dally accordingly; lesbians pick up men if they want to; one of the women is bisexual; and, as in life, gay people and straight people go to the same parties, live in the same neighborhoods and are even related to one another.

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

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.

Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.

Many of my early Vines and collaborations were with gay people.

So many people, including stark conservatives, have family members and close friends who are gay.

By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.

It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.

I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

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.