Tab Hunter Quotes

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

I just, I was in such denial within myself for the longest time, just because of the place I grew up in. Like, it wasn't common. I didn't know anybody that was gay. I think I had one gay friend in high school and she never even, like, came out. It was just, like, we all just knew.

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.

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.

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

I grew up when people were afraid to 'come out' as gay. If you asked me how many gay kids I grew up with or went to school with, I would have said none - which of course could not have been true. The truth is I have no idea how many confused and frightened kids I grew up with. They are still out there.

Frankly, no one had ever asked me before. My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about.

I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

No, I'm not gay.

I'm proud of my sexuality.

I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.

What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.

People's sexuality is often defined by who we're partnered with at any given moment, which can be a frustrating limitation for me. I've had countless tiny 'coming out' moments in my life, often simply to explain to someone else that they have misjudged my sexuality based on who they saw me dating.

I'm not gay - everybody thinks I am - but I dig 'The L Word.'

The gay thing has always been hard for me.

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.

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

I was in the closet up until I moved to the U.S. But I was always one of those kids who couldn't really hide being gay. Some queer kids are just more straight-passing than others. I was not one of those kids.

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

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.

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

Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

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