America Quote by Bob Mould

I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was…

— Ira Sachs

Here was long period on my life when I was very disappointed by the fact I wasn't gay. Because I grew up going to…

— Moby

Experiences with friends or family members coming out have helped millions of Americans to see past stereotypes and better understand what being gay is…

— Pete Buttigieg

Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history…

— Stephen Fry

After coming out as gay, I soon felt a lot more comfortable in my life, moment to moment.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

I didn't even have that many close LGBT friends or anything like that, but I suppose it was growing up and becoming aware of…

— Hozier

For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.

— George Michael

I realized so much of my college years were spent not wanting to be gay. I just imagined how different it would be if…

— Nina Jacobson

Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of…

— Andrew Rannells

One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

— Lance Loud

Growing up as a gay boy in West Texas, I definitely felt like a bit of an outcast sometimes - that there was a…

— Michael Arden

Once I was embraced by gay culture, I finally started to feel I was fitting in. I was understood by those people in a…

— Roisin Murphy