Johann Hari Quotes

People have to stop saying that just because someone is an anti-gay activist they might be gay. They're DEFINITELY GAY!!

Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or any gay person doing any gay thing, that was an insufficient display of pride. You were suffering from internalized homophobia. As opposed to external homophobia.

I used to look at gay men and think, 'I'm not like that, I don't want to be like that, that's not me.'

Shouldn't homophobic politicians and anti-gay bullies be presumed to be gay until they get caught up in a straight sex scandal?

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

Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.

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

A lot of people thought I was gay.

Also, I learned whether you are gay, bisexual, it doesn't matter, you know... because, at the end of the day, they're both gross. But mostly, I learned that elderly black women are wise beyond their years... but younger black women are prostitutes.

I agree that biphobia is real, but I think it's absolutely worth considering that someone who "despises" having sex with her husband - and men in general - may not be interested in men sexually.

Am I proud of being straight? No. You know why? Because if I start acting proud, that's going to make me seem kind of gay.

I got rid of my teeth at a young age because I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everybody's gay.

I don't feel there's anything about my experience of being gay that gives me more insight into "don't ask, don't tell," for example, than anybody else.

Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.

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.

You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.

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.

If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.

I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people.

I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents. Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.