Age Quote by Darren Criss

I grew up with gay family members, and I went to a performing arts high school. So I grew up in children's theater, musical…

— Erika Jayne

Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised…

— A. J. McLean

My mother was majorly into musical theatre - that's how this happened. That's how I became the gayest person in the world.

— Randy Rainbow

I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently.

— Judith Light

I was raised by drag queens, practically...My mother died when I was four-years-old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people.…

— Ellen Pompeo

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I…

— Dan Savage

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

I came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I wasn't really happy,…

— Candis Cayne

My father tried to get me to be around gay people a lot when I was young. He owned a gay bookstore and it…

— Margaret Cho

I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that…

— Andrew Solomon

I was just a queer theater kid from New York City.

— Princess Nokia

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