Ashamed Quote by John Grant

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

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

I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel…

— Mary J. Blige

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

— Kurt Cobain

I was insecure and ashamed. Unless you're gay, being gay has never been looked at as being cool. And I wanted to be cool.

— Gus Kenworthy

I feel no shame about being a homosexual. I'm proud of who I am and I'm proud of my family. I live my life…

— Amanda Bearse

I was so ashamed of who I was.

— Lady Gaga

I spent a lot of time denying the idea that I could be gay or trans to myself. From the ages of 14 to…

— Chelsea Manning

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

I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense of being…

— Ira Sachs

I never had a low self-esteem that would make me gay. At one point, though, the reverse happened. Being homosexual led me to have…

— Aaron Fricke

Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to…

— John Logan