F**k normal. If it means a lifetime of unhappiness, then I…

“The truth has a way of coming out of the closet.”

— March Lions

“He plants himself right there in front of Craig’s mother and says, “You need to love him. I don’t care who you thought he…

— David Levithan

“Denying what you are didn't keep people from knowing what you are." "And flaunting it isn't what saved you." Ykka takes a deep breath.…

— N.K. Jemisin

“The true ugliness of the closet is its subtlety. It eats away at your soul bit by bit and you don't even realize it.…

— Gar McVey-Russell

“Sometimes people tell me they don’t want to label themselves by their sexual orientation. I used to reject my gay identity. In fact I…

— Anthony Venn-Brown

“If you will it, it's not a dream.”

— Theodor Herzl

My mother was wonderfully out about her dementia. She would sort of - she would say to me, I came out to the window…

— Emma Donoghue

“I'm finally coming to terms with the unalloyed insanity of being a writer. Now that's coming out.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

“ The closet implies a literal, physical boundary dividing one’s life before publicly declaring queerness, and after. It’s a threshold impossible to recross, two…

— Grace Perry

“But thats their image of us so we stay tense, holding our breath, hoping we wont be found out. - about being gay from…

— Ebine Yamaji

“Here's a queer fact: none among the skeletons in your closet are ‘straight’ so expect them to ‘come out’ very, very soon...”

— Khayri R.R. Woulfe

Coming out of the closet as a gay man didn't cost me anything, but deep down it wasn't who I was. It was only…

— Lux Pascal

I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance…

— Jamie Farr

“Dude, the whole Drake coming out of the closet routine is getting old. Get some new material. ~ Drake”

— Jennifer Turner

I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.

— Oprah Winfrey