Gay Quote by David Bowie

Without a doubt, my sexuality was something that I just never discussed, especially in the 1950s.

— Tab Hunter

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of…

— Russell Brand

There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.

— Kevin Sessums

In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

— Ian Mckellen

As an actor, it was important to me to play gay characters because, growing up, it was something I never really saw done on…

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

I just didn't fit the stereotypes of gay men. I was an ESPN addict as far back as elementary school. I'd also had early…

— Steve Kornacki

I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't…

— John Glover

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at…

— Kurt Cobain

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 dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and…

— George Weinberg

I just don't know when, as a society... it sort of only became OK to represent gay people in the traditional sense, where they…

— Jordan Gavaris

I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular fiction, they…

— Joe R. Lansdale