Environment Quote by Martina Navratilova

Outside of being an actress, I feel like being out is the biggest way that gay people can change perception. There are people that…

— Jill Bennett

It is every gay public figure's social responsibility to be out.

— Jodie Foster

I'm sure other people in the business have considered reasons why they're doing what they're doing, but I do think that if you're gay…

— Rachel Maddow

People may have said, "The dude's gay; how are we going to market this?" But it's not an issue for me, because being out…

— Cheyenne Jackson

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that, if people…

— Jane Rule

“Coming out of the closet feels liberating because you no longer have to carry all that crap around with you, in your mind, wherever…

— Ian Thomas Malone

Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.

— Jai Rodriguez

Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if…

— Rachel Maddow

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

— George Weinberg

In the early stages of being out, you meet all these people from all kinds of backgrounds, and the one thing you have in…

— Andrew Haigh

I think that the most important reason to come out is your own sanity; that's above everything else. I think that applies whether you're…

— Christopher Rice

I think dragging someone out of the closet who isn't necessarily engaged in anti-gay activities can have a destructive effect on them and on…

— Christopher Rice