Closet Quote by Chris Crocker

“For the love of God! He howled. Could all of the straight people get out of the fucking closets, please? Gay men coming through!”

— Kat French

“Coming out of the closet feels liberating because you no longer have to carry all that crap around with you, in your mind, wherever…

— Ian Thomas Malone

“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

“The closet is a powerful thing. It makes you accept things you never thought you would in order to preserve the facade that you…

— Sean Kennedy

Can you give me a reason for coming out of the closet?

— Keys

“Guy was definitely a closet homo. I would have actually felt sorry for him if he wasn’t such a dick.”

— Sloane Kennedy

“ 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

“There is nothing more boring, anyway, than sexual activity as an end in itself, and a great many people who came out of the…

— James Baldwin

“I’d like to make it clear from the start that I am gay, gay, gay. Like, when I come out of the closet, I’m…

— Gwen Hayes

“It’s about time you let yourself out of that motherfuckin’ closet.”

— Wulf Francú Godgluck

“I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.”

— Kurt Cobain

“Straight people don't have to come out, as heterosexuality is assumed. [...] Young straight people are less likely to question the choices that their…

— Dan Savage