Blessing Quote by Carson Kressley

For me as a kid growing up, I was gay and I didn't even realise it, let alone accept it. I was told I…

— Darren Hayes

When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through a long,…

— Andrew Solomon

There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught,…

— Cleve Jones

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

— Cat Cora

When I was growing up I didn't know what it meant to be a happy, successful grown-up gay person, and now I do. I…

— Ross Mathews

While I learned, I hid out largely in the gay community, and overall it kept me very safe.

— Rose McGowan

For me, as a kid, I always felt like being gay was something that was going make people turn on me.

— Gus Kenworthy

Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to…

— John Logan

Being gay facilitated my capacity for shame. As a child, I carried around this thing that gradually became this big dark secret. When I…

— Derren Brown

My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for [48] years I've…

— Barbara Gittings

Even when I was a child, I used to constantly get into trouble at school because I couldn't stop talking and people didn't like…

— CMAT