Admire Quote by Lena Dunham

I had to face the fact that I had been using my gay friends as props. They were always supposed to be funny and…

— Tina Fey

I had a lot of friends, but none of them I felt super close with. Now that I'm older, I can look back on…

— Ross Butler

When I first came up, the whole AIDS epidemic was starting, and the gay community that I experienced from the beginning of my career…

— Madonna Ciccone

I'd always been a little bit uncomfortable talking about my sexuality just because it took me a while to fully accept it. I had…

— Calum Scott

At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me-some because they cared about me and…

— Harold S. Kushner

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

— Jonathan Lethem

A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my…

— Boy George

I became quite a diva, and intolerant, and people knew when I was not pleased. Some people were afraid of me, and other people…

— Jane Lynch

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I…

— Dan Savage

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best…

— Charles Dickens

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

When I meet gay kids and they know who we are, I remember that's amazing because literally every gay person in every gay story…

— Olly Alexander