Lgbtq Identity Quotes

I was off to Yale to be a lesbian

A lot of straight people think I'm nuts.

I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.

Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition?

My whole life is queer.

Gay as a daffodil.

I feel dance and pop music genres are extremely female and extremely gay. When it comes to art and pop culture, queers are f - king weirdos. We don't have gender rules that tell us what we can and can't be. We just make it up as we go along. We have full creative license to be whatever we want to be.

I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian.

The idea of the gay experience, it feels like a relic. I felt like in the '90s when we were watching the gay characters on 'The Real World,' there was definitely a gay experience that was distinct from a straight experience. If you talk to high schoolers in 2017, I don't know that is as much a part of how they experience a social dynamic.

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary.

Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.

A dreamcatcher works, if your dream is to be gay.

I'd be devastated if my son grows up to be a hetero. I mean, I'd still love him ... but as a parent you just envision a certain life for your child. I mean, if he's straight, think of all the fabulous things he's going to miss out on. When I think my son might never know the joys of having a quarter share on Fire Island and walking through Judy Garland Memorial Park on the way to the Meat Rack.

I'm actually sort of shocked that I was able to get a medal in 2014 and really have any of the success I had before because as soon as I came out, it was like a whole new world for me, and I felt so free, so confident, that it's actually shocking that I was able to compete any other way.

Everyone's journey as a gay man or woman is different; it's personal.

From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.

In all honesty, when you talk about 'the gay community,' you are talking about my community, haha.

One of the definitive works on gay life. Through this collective testimony we may come to understand what it is to be 'the other'; in short, the other part of ourselves.

I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

As a kid, I just felt like I didn't really have anyone to look up to that I felt like I could really relate to, someone that was out and gay and also competing in sports and finding success.

I'm gay. It feels so weird saying it on camera!

In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.

Every day, there'd be somebody interviewing me as a "lesbian living in Russia." It got to the point where I would joke that I now have two jobs. I work as a writer and a journalist, and I also work as a lesbian. There's a big difference between being out and having that be your sole identity, the only reason that someone is talking to you. My twelve-year-old daughter said, "I have a new job as well. I work as the daughter of a lesbian," because she was also giving all these interviews.

Bisexuals are gay people - we're all gay. Some people don't like that.