Change Quote by John Cameron Mitchell

My mom died before she knew I was gay, and my dad thought it was a phase, then realized it wasn't.

— LP

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

When I was 13, my mum knew that I was gay, and she just always knew.

— Kristian Nairn

My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.

— Rufus Wainwright

When I came out to my mother in 1990, her first words of advice were to not tell anyone. She said being gay could…

— Jonathan Capehart

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

— Boy George

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she…

— Anonymous

My mom and dad's friends were gay, and so I was raised with the acknowledgement to love one another, no matter one's sexual orientation.

— Lara Fabian

Growing up, me and my mom never really talked about me being gay.

— Jeffree Star

People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who…

— Miriam Margolyes

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

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

— Maurice Sendak