Appearance Quote by David C. Driskell

I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years, which is…

— Kevin Smith

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

— Kevin Sessums

Even in my town, even in San Francisco, thousands of gay men were arrested usually using entrapment techniques every single year for sexual behavior…

— Cleve Jones

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

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the…

— Dan Savage

“Even if they've figured themselves gays at the age of five or fifty, there really isn't much of a difference in how society begins…

— Teresa "Jew" Lariosa

I'm 44, and I've never had a problem being gay, and maybe I dodged a lot of bullets, and maybe I'm one of the…

— Linda Perry

I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I…

— Jason Bateman

I was in the closet up until I moved to the U.S. But I was always one of those kids who couldn't really hide…

— Nico Santos

I have known many people who were seduced as children by same-sex partners and then spent their teen years being gay, and then found…

— Nell Zink

I’m not offended by homosexuality. In the 60s I made love to many, many women – often outdoors in the mud and the rain…

— Creed Bratton

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