Been Quote by Edmund White

I would have had an easier life if I were straight, but I would not be me. And I now like being myself better…

— Andrew Solomon

I'd spent my twenties trying to be everything to everybody. I had my family, my straight friends, and I was starting to develop a…

— David Furnish

When I first moved to New York, I had some colleagues who said I should be my straightest self - whatever that means -…

— Colman Domingo

Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.

— Ira Sachs

I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available…

— Kevin Sessums

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

Well I think straight executives don't think that straight people would accept me. But I think that straight people would.

— Cole Escola

“There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual orientation didn't…

— Kelly J. Cogswell

I was a closet straight. I think I wanted to be gay because I thought it was arty and interesting. And also, I was…

— Rupert Graves

In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight.

— Lance Loud

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

I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing…

— Mike Piazza