Could Quote by Ian Mckellen

The inspiration behind '1950' was... gay history and the way that our people had to hide in public and how that affected the way…

— King Princess

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

— Kevin Sessums

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

— Tab Hunter

I don't think I did anything that my contemporaries didn't; it was just that I was the only one who talked about it. In…

— David Bowie

I remember an experience once of a young man in our home who was gay. We just assumed it, based on his outward appearance.…

— David C. Driskell

In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides to reward…

— Maya Angelou

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

“They likely would not have been able to be open about it. But the optimist in me likes to believe that the twenty-first century…

— Mackenzi Lee

Life was romantic in the swinging '60s.

— Jean Marsh

The idea of the gay experience, it feels like a relic. I felt like in the '90s when we were watching the gay characters…

— Rostam Batmanglij

West Hollywood blew my mind: gay men walking down the street, kissing and holding hands. I'd never imagined there was a place like that.

— Shane McAnally

I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything…

— Elton John