Deal Quote by Mary Gauthier

If I were gay, why wouldn't I admit it? Plenty of people in the record industry are gay, and my mother wouldn't freak out.

— Simon Cowell

I've been openly gay since I can remember.

— Marc Jacobs

I remember when we were going to release 'Dancing On My Own,' and I went into the record label crying to them that I…

— Calum Scott

I don't want to be a gay or a straight artist. I don't make gay records - I make records.

— Darren Hayes

I originally came out as gay when I was a teenager, then backtracked when I thought I had closed off the market a bit!

— Joe Lycett

It's OK to be gay, and it's OK to buy an album by gay musicians.

— Manila Luzon

I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay.

— Dustin Hoffman

I'm not a gay-basher, because gay people buy my records. Why would I be offended by your sexual preference, unless I'm in the closet?…

— Pimp C

I'm an artist who happens to be gay.

— Big Freedia

I'd say I'm not openly gay. I'm just gay.

— Jonathan Bailey

I have lived my life very openly and have never hidden the fact that I am gay. Apparently the prerequisite to being a gay…

— Jonathan Knight

When I was signed, at the age of 23...the fact that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very unusual.

— Rufus Wainwright