Eras Quote by Leonardo DiCaprio

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

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

— Tab Hunter

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in…

— Hugh Hefner

I just remember growing up in the '90s and figuring out my sexuality really, really early on because of the women in the '90s,…

— Adore Delano

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

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

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

What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.

— Dan Stevens

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

— Barbet Schroeder

I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'

— Rufus Wainwright

I was so ashamed of who I was. And I also felt like an outcast in gay society as well because I wasn't good-looking…

— John Grant

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